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.
- Released: 2019-03-14
- Runtime: 116 minutes
- Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thrillers
- Stars: Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Tim Heidecker, Elisabeth Moss, Cali Sheldon, Noelle Sheldon, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Anna Diop, Madison Curry, Duke Nicholson, Napiera Groves, Kara Hayward, Lon Gowan, Alan Frazier, Dustin Ybarra, Nathan Harrington, Darrel Cherney, James Cobb, Alessandro Garcia, David M Sandoval Jr., Ashley McKoy, Jordan Peele
- Director: Jordan Peele
Comments
- shoobe01-1 - 6 June 2024
I wish modern horror didn't exist
Because then this could have been a good movie. Really good acting, well filmed (and man am I picky about that, I mean it) good editing, good sound editing (esp for something of this type, you can tell what people are saying etc), but... who cares?
Everyone acts weirdly inhuman. Even before the home invasion kicks off the core plot people just do not act like that. Bits are okay, but many improbable actions and conversations.
Once the scary bit starts, well first let me say I had high hopes. The opening past funhouse was hilariously well done. Oh, let's go for the exit. Oops, that's harder than it seems... etc. But a random power outage, to the house only (the baddies are backlit by streetlights etc) and you... confront people... you know what? Doesn't matter what they do, because what they do is relentlessly dumb stuff.
And then over and over the TV trope of hostage taking where declaring you might do something bad means everyone must comply. About the time I gave up on this and started fast forwarding was when they are ordered to chain themselves to the coffee table (weird villain choice: not a very secure item) because... or else I might slowly get up and walk some distance across the room and maybe not trip on say the same coffee table and then stab you with scissors?
I mean, people can run, fight back, etc. Right? No? When they do, they mostly make bad choices and sure there's something there in overall drama mode but... it's hard to care when people act unreal or dumb.
And then... we went to over-explaining. Which continued to be so improbable (SO many things make no sense about tethered-land) that it was hard to care. I'd rather have seen a brief Powerpoint about the concept of the evil clones instead. Could have read it faster. - pooyan_prv - 18 February 2024
My review of this movie
The success of Jordan Peele's Get Out (2017) created ample opportunity for his new film, Us; In his recent interview with Le Monde, he mentions that the filming of Us took twice as long as the previous film. More time allowed him to produce a more ambitious work: the film goes back and forth between 1986 and the present, and compared to "Get Out", its action covers a wider range geographically, dramatically and intellectually. The imaginative scope of the film is vast and four-dimensional: a deep exploration into the real underground world that borrows the eerie concept of the sunken place from Get Out and gives it physical embodiment. - ganadube-33552 - 25 December 2023
Why? Just Why?
Upon my viewing the IMDB rating was 6.8 which is highly undeserved. I reckon a 3 or less should suffice. Basically the incompetent male figure husband, lead by the strong silent female character, who turns out to be a clone executing clones "huh", from a failed experiment which lead the mole people into insanity lead by the original none clone to execute all the surface dwellers "huh" finally gets her revenge and saves her family while the idiot husband cracks jokes and wants to remain idle within a pandemic. The track selection was great, enjoyable, the storyline was very random and non cohesive or coherent. Unnecessary long pauses, moments where the protagonist should move with haste, decide to become lackadaisical, and won't die due to plot armor. Everything is abrupt and strange. Things just happen, why, because. I don't know. This was a regrettable watch. We did have fun moments with the family at how weird everything was. - personaljesusz - 18 December 2022
Them/they
Very good comedy that you can watch with your family to spend your time in a dying world that you can live only for once.
Movie goes slow. Comedy begins at the scene where the tall guy try to tackle family members by jumping like a gorilla. And acting like it. And shouting like it.
'Jordan Peele gave the cast 11 horror films to watch so they would have "a shared language" when filming.' Which movie consists jumping like a gorilla to scare people?
This list includes the film 'Martyrs' which is a wonderfully executed horror movie, none other topped it. Does this film includes that kinda nonsense? Nope. Jaws? Which scene in Jaws includes a tall man jumping and acting like a chimpanzee? Like, come on man. Stop doing. Just do your comedy thing and Get Out. - kkmgirl-448-111988 - 22 October 2022
Great acting, poor plot
The good- very talented actors, decent pacing, great cinematography and action scenes, and engaging soundtrack. The bad- the entire story line and countless plot holes. The first quarter drew me in and got me excited for where we were headed. But then the dreaded exposition drop happened. Things went downhill from there, especially during the conclusion. I know there are myriad articles pontificating the mind blowing social messaging, but any that exist are flushed down the toilet due to ridiculous plot holes. You cannot provide 75% of a movie that makes logical sense (given the "horror" context) only to bombard us with exhausting suspension of disbelief in the last quarter. It's so completely farfetched, I see no reason to even glean meaning from it. There are countless ridiculous questions, like how do imbecilic zombie doppelgangers know how to survive without water, sanitation, health care, etc. What are the rabbits eating to survive? Where did all the red jumpsuits and scissors come from? If Human A flies across the world, how is their doppelganger "mimicking" their interactions with the same people down below? I know there are no answers because it wasn't set up to have them. That is totally unsatisfying for me and obviously many other viewers, too. As far as the social commentary, I take issue with the narrative that those "less fortunate" are automatically destined for a sewer life. I am tired of America bashing when millions of people continue to risk their lives to come here, recognizing that there IS true opportunity. My low-income parents didn't pay for my college tuition- I went to FREE public school and then CHEAP Community College (available to EVERYONE regardless of grades, race, gender, creed, etc). I worked hard (in college and at my jobs), I went to a university and kept working, and I eventually got a Masters degree- while still working- (and that I'm still paying for) that helped land me a job that pays the bills. Is life harder under financial stress? Hell yes! But did it automatically mark me for a life of future poverty? Hell no! I took advantage of the available resources (free public school, cheap community College, financial aid, scholarships, etc) so I could break the cycle. I didn't cry about it. I didn't make a movie or write a blog. I just got up everyday and never quit. Maybe if there were more movies about resiliency and grit, as opposed to endless finger pointing and bloviating, people would be inspired. Useless hand-wringing and victimizing only feeds the flame of dissension, because as far as I can tell, the movie provided ZERO answers as to how we're supposed to fix all of society's shortcomings. Instead, I got a beautifully made mess that didn't deliver the horror and created more questions than answers. Get Out was superior by far. - the_ruck - 13 September 2022
The best Jordan Peele film!
To be honest, I didn't find the film so good before and by no means better than Get Out. But now with the rewatch, I really notice how brilliant this film actually is. Well, with this film Jordan Peele proves once again that he simply has damn good ideas, as well as a knack for the implementation of these ideas.
Well, the idea of the film alone is really brilliant. I don't want to say too much about this, because everyone should experience for themselves. But already in Get Out he has shown that he simply has a lot of talent to find the right horror ideas. Because I mean, the basic idea of the film is really terrific and creates a queasy feeling. Because, of course, it raises the question of what if all this were real. Well, and if you ask yourself as a viewer what it would be like if the events were real, then the film definitely did something right.
But of course, an idea alone is not enough to make a good film out of it. Of course, it also needs a suitable knack for the implementation of this idea and Jordan Peele also has that. Because the staging alone is really brilliant. There are really beautiful pictures and a staging that are looking for the same. Well, Jordan Peele simply shows that the horror genre does not have to consist of cheap and trashy slasher films. He shows that the horror genre can also be art.
Well, the entire structure of the film is really damn well done. By this I mean how tension is generated and how the atmosphere is built up. Except for the first scene, the first twenty to thirty minutes consist only of introducing the family. You learn something about every character and get a little insight into this family. At first glance, this is a little too long for a horror movie. But first of all, these twenty to thirty minutes are really entertaining, as the actors are just great and Jordan Peele lets his talent for comedy shine through a bit. And secondly, I don't mind, because the rest of the film simply offers continuous tension until the end. Well and so, a really exciting and thrilling story is told after the beginning of the film. A story that is getting worse and more acute and is actually becoming more and more exciting. Well, until the end, which really offers a very successful ending with the reveal.
In general, you also notice that the film had a much higher budget than Jordan Peele's first film. Because there are many more bloody scenes and moments. But also many more set pieces and simply delivers a higher quality.
The actors of the film are also all really great. First and foremost, Lupita Nyong'o, who is just fantastic in the leading role. In all the franchise films around Black Panther and Star Wars, she has never really been able to show her skills, except for 12 Years a Slave. But here she definitely does that again and actually carries the entire film on her shoulders. But the rest of the cast also helps her with this. Winston Duke is a bit of the comic relief character and provides a few funny scenes and is also completely convincing in his role. As well as the two child actors who are also fantastic.
So overall, I'm really excited about this film after the rewatch. I mean, I liked the film the first time, but now much more. This definitely speaks for this film and also for Jordan Peele. Because as already guessed, he shows in his films that horror can also be art.
