Us (2019)

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   Paravail

   Kinda weak in my opinion. The movie seems to want to be a serious psychological thriller and a campy slasher at the same time. It even turns into a zombie film of sorts around the third act. There's a lot of genre confusion and it keeps the film from being particularly strong at anything.

   I think the big reveal at the end is what really undoes the movie. It's revealed that all the body doubles going around killing people are "tethered puppets" who live in this underground bunker where the only thing they get to eat is raw rabbit. That's a pretty weird concept. It's too specific to be creepy and mysterious, and too out there for people to accept at face value. If the story had been about a woman slowly going mad because she felt a double of herself was following her around, that would be effective psychological horror, since the monster, so to speak, is never explained. In Get Out, the idea of white people scooping out he brains of black people and replacing it with the brains of other white people is weird, but it's understandable. It's a concept you can readily accept. The whole underground puppet people eating rabbit thing is kinda the worst of both worlds.

   2 years 6 months ago
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   armyofshadows

   Very frustrating, not scary, irritating, but kind of funny and certainly stylish. There are a million unanswered questions. Where did these people come from? What is their motivation? Why are they doing this? It's just never answered. There is a woke SJW angle to the film as well that some may not tolerate. 2 years 4 months ago
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   Biki

   This movie is the doppelgänger of "Get out", as bad as the former was good. Great disappointment. 1 year 9 months ago

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