Horror film 'Us' is not worth the money to see in theaters
Jordan Peele’s new horror film Us, released March 22, 2019 has gotten a lot of buzz, but not all of it is positive. A lot of people have said that Peele’s film Get Out is much better than Us and that Us will never live up to it. Some, however disagree and claim that once you get over the initial confusion of the beginning scenes, it is not all that bad.
Us, directed and produced by Jordan Peele, is confusing and weird but intriguing nonetheless. The main character of the film is Adelaide Wilson (Madison Curry) and the storyline follows Adelaide’s life throughout the whole movie, beginning with Adelaide as a child at a carnival in Santa Cruz during 1986, where she eventually wanders off starting the beginning of a crazy turn of events.
When the film switches to scenes of Adelaide as an adult, with her own husband and children, it begins to get kind of scattered and extremely hard to keep up with, even if you are paying close attention. The movie, all in all, is not that scary and is more of a suspense, rather than horror, film. Though the movie did do a good job of keeping me on the edge of my seat, I wish I would have gotten scared more than I did.
Some of the characters words were really hard to hear and understand and others were just straight up ridiculous, but that is expected in a movie directed by Jordan Peele. At the beginning of the movie, I did get a little bored because it was so quiet and not much was going on, but towards the end of the movie things started to get more interesting.
The movie, despite being confusing and all over the place, did keep your mind going. There were a lot of hidden secrets that most would not have caught, without paying very close attention. Trying to understand the thought process of the characters was very hard and most of the time the movie was fairly unpredictable. It dropped subtle hints as to what was going to happen but not enough to give anything away, which I liked very much.
There were certain things about the characters that you had to pay close attention to in order to follow the storyline and actually understand what was going on. You had to keep things from the beginning of the movie in mind all the way up to the end of the movie, which helped pull everything together.
In conclusion, Us is okay and I would recommend people see it, but not in theaters. I suggest people wait for it to come out on DVD so that they can rent it, to decide if they like it, instead of spending a lot of money. I would watch it again but only to understand the storyline better, though I did enjoy it.
