Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.
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A private user reviewed Us (2019)
I Was Underwhelmed
Maybe my minute brain just doesn't get Jordan Peele's creativity. Maybe, I'm just a simpleton. However, I don't really get the love for Us. I liked that he went to a true horror flick and there were some pretty cool nods to things I grew up to. However, I just felt the payoff was not that interesting. Am I the only one that thought The Teathered sounded like the vampires in 30 Days of Night?
Review from the comment
Oh man. What a let down. I had supremely high hopes going into Us with as much as I enjoyed Get Out and the hype that surrounded Us upon its release. A thrilling trailer only added to my anticipation.
But Us is too much for its own good. It revolves around Adelaide and Gabe Wilson (Lupita Nyong'o and Winston Duke) and their two children Zora and Jason (Shahadi Wright Joseph and Evan Alex), all of whom are on vacation in California. When Gabe suggests a visit to the beach at Santa Cruz where Adelaide grew up, secrets from her childhood invite a set of doppelgangers which are horrifying and hostile copies of her own family.
This sounds pretty sharp on paper. But Peele seems more interested in hidden meanings and hiding Easter eggs than he does in crafting a plot that is coherent and potent. Nyong'o and Duke are only adequate in their roles, and I found the doppelganger version of Nyong'o to not be as creepy as she was trying to be. Wright Joseph and Alex really stand out in their dual roles though, as does Elizabeth Moss who makes a couple of short appearances. The other big positive is that Peele demonstrates he is a solid tactician behind the camera, producing some of the most memorable shots of 2018. These positives help balance out the messy, head scratching storyline that maybe I'm just not smart enough to enjoy.
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