Nope : There wasn't any point to this. Huge let Down. Spoilers.

There wasn't any point to this. Huge let Down. Spoilers.

With Jordan Peele making it, I expected a twist we'd never see coming. I kept waiting for the big reveal.

Nothing. There's no reveal at all. It's really just a UFO/alien who can shut down power in an area as it passes.

During the third act, you're waiting for this reveal which never comes to fruition: perhaps it's not a UFO at all but the government. Perhaps it's advanced white humans trying to eradicate black people from the area. Nope! Nothing. It's just a generic UFO.

The trailer leads you to believe horses play a theme in this. They spend a lot of time making sure you know the first movie was black man on a horse. Horses don't have anything to do with the narrative other than Daniel Kaluya has a horse.

The deformed/burned lady in the trailer with the veil on is only trailer-bait: she's only there for that one scene. It's not explained how she got burned. It has nothing to do with anything in the story. It's manipulative to say the least, because the only reason he was there is to use her face in the trailer.

When the alien beings to eat people, for a brief moment you can see them falling through its oesophagus. Maybe this will be explored more? Nope.

Then there's a subplot where Steven Yuen's character, a former child star, had a bad experience on a sitcom about a chimp, when the chimp went crazy and brutally killed his co-stars. You're waiting to see how this connects to the UFO.

It doesn't connect at all.

It literally doesn't connect at all.

They spend so much time telling us a chimp killed people on an old TV show even parodied on SNL with Chris Kataan playing the chimp, and it has nothing to do with the main narrative.

The movie succeeds at teasing you with suspense and anticipation, but with no pay off.

It's not even explained why the alien chose that specific area. They were just there.

It's a very disappointing movie. Nothing happens.

Monster, how should I feel? Creatures lie here, looking through the window.

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I was expecting to be disappointed, so I wasn't.

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Just a couple thing I noticed:

The lady in the veil in the trailer was the child actress from the show. She had her face eaten off by the chimp, and she was there on the ranch that day as a special guest (he says "my costar, the first girl I ever had a crush on" or something).

And I think the whole chimp-going-wild setup was to show the parallel between modern-day Steven Yuen doing the exact same thing as happened on the sitcom: trying to use a wild animal in a live production, thinking you can control it, and the thing freaks out and kills everyone, just like the chimp.

That being said I didn't like the movie and thought it could have been way better.

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I sort of god that, but it wasn't made clear that Gordy even left anyone alive except Yuen. Why did they have Gordy's rampage be offscreen as if they were aiming for a PG-13? Her only real purpose for sitting there is so they can have that shot of her face in the trailer.

The movie opens with Gordy. So you naturally assume Gordy incident a central focus here. But nothing came from it.

Pulp Fiction opens with Tim Roth's character at the diner. We know this scene is important since it's the intro - and when we return to it later, they rob the diner and Jules has his revelation. When we finally returned to Gordy there was no revelation.


There are good bad movies, like The Room. I'd consider this a bad good movie.

Monster, how should I feel? Creatures lie here, looking through the window.

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Great review and you saved me time and money.

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I mean, it's still good though.

It's like Top Gun and Titanic - a spectacle meant to be seen at theatres.

It does keep you at the edge of your seat. It's suspenseful from the get-go.

This is not a movie where'd you think mid-way through, "this is bad."

It's the illusion of a good movie while you're viewing it; the disappointment comes after it's over when nothing goes anywhere.

With Us and Get Out, I was expecting a twist to blow my mind: Nope.

Monster, how should I feel? Creatures lie here, looking through the window.

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They do have fun with some pop culture references and alternate histories, as Tarantino likes to do.

There's a subplot where a chip on a sitcom goes crazy and violently kills his co-stars, which happened in the mid-90s.

Yuen says this incident was parodied shortly after on SNL with Chris Kattan playing the chimp.




Monster, how should I feel? Creatures lie here, looking through the window.

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There's a subplot where a *chimp on a sitcom goes crazy and violently kills his co-stars

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This movie was very difficult to sit through, even while hopped up on goofballs. But I did it anyway.

And now, whenever I get called a "racist" (which is surprisingly often), I just whip out my ticket stub to show how I went though extreme suffering for those negroes, orientals and wetbacks.

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Cowboys and Aliens was better.

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You missed a few points. Read the trivia page for help connecting the dots. The girl who was attacked by the chimp was unconscious, not dead. It was just one alien being and it swallowed the people. It ate them. And if you didn't get how horses played a part in things I don't know what to tell you.
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