Movie Review Series: Episode 5 - Us

Us:

(2019)

From the moment the film opens up, and everything seems insignificant in the beginning, but it all plays ties to the end. And the second we start following our 'main character', the tension is there immediately. Just from the opening scene, you can tell how well done the movie was going to be just by the way they shot it.

Overall, you don't get much from the trailer or the short summary either. But if you are trying to sell it to somebody; The film is about a family who comes face-to-face with identical versions of themselves, and to an extent it seems very small scale, however, it is anything but.

This movie wouldn't be anything without the right actors playing the right parts. And luckily director/writer Jordan Peele knows how to influence them perfectly. Each actor has to play a normal version of themselves along with a dark version of themselves. Difficult in itsself, especially for the child actors who have to deal with shooting such things.

Let it be said now, that you need to make it to the end. The ending is what gives you everything, what explains everything, and has the precise momentum of a motion and surprise that any good movie, not just horror deserves.

8/10

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6857112/