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It's better than Us but not as good as Get Out, but Jordan Peele does show some real style as a director with 2022's Nope. a visually arresting, but somewhat lumbering tale of the supernatural, that, like Peele's other work, offers sporadic suspense and immediate "boos", but features a plethora of story elements, set pieces, and characters that never seem to quite come together as intended.
Peele sets his story in the California desert this time where we meet a disparate group of people who find themselves in the midst of discovering something not of this earth that isn't seen for the first half of the film and for the second half can't be explained. The story focuses on a brother/sister pair of horse wranglers whose father might have died because of this entity, a former sitcom star who now runs a wild west sideshow, and a bulk store employee/techno geek.
Producer, director, and writer Jordan Peele puts a lot of effort into the look of this film, which he knocks out of the park. It's impressive that Peele keeps the reveal of this entity under such effective wraps for almost half the running time, but the exposition is poorly paced, producing several gaps in the film that provided drowsiness for this reviewer, but once we see the actually entity and the havoc it creates, the film begins to pick up to a final fifteen minutes that had this reviewer on the edge of his chair.
The opening scene is confusing and, like the opening scene of Get Out, didn't seem to have anything to do with the rest of film initially, but a connection is eventually made. When the connection is made, on the set of a sitcom called "Gordy's Home", it produces what is easily the most terrifying scene in the film, which actually had this reviewer jumping out of his chair. And as effective as the finale might have been, what happens to the characters did border on the cliche.
Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya, reunited with his Get Out director Peele, underplays beautifully as the horse wrangler, though KeKe Palmer tends to grate on the nerves as his sister. Loved Oscar nominee Steven Yeun (MInari) as the sideshow owner, though if the truth be told, it's Peele's stylish directorial eye that is the real star here.
It's better than Us but not as good as Get Out, but Jordan Peele does show some real style as a director with 2022's Nope. a visually arresting, but somewhat lumbering tale of the supernatural, that, like Peele's other work, offers sporadic suspense and immediate "boos", but features a plethora of story elements, set pieces, and characters that never seem to quite come together as intended.
Peele sets his story in the California desert this time where we meet a disparate group of people who find themselves in the midst of discovering something not of this earth that isn't seen for the first half of the film and for the second half can't be explained. The story focuses on a brother/sister pair of horse wranglers whose father might have died because of this entity, a former sitcom star who now runs a wild west sideshow, and a bulk store employee/techno geek.
Producer, director, and writer Jordan Peele puts a lot of effort into the look of this film, which he knocks out of the park. It's impressive that Peele keeps the reveal of this entity under such effective wraps for almost half the running time, but the exposition is poorly paced, producing several gaps in the film that provided drowsiness for this reviewer, but once we see the actually entity and the havoc it creates, the film begins to pick up to a final fifteen minutes that had this reviewer on the edge of his chair.
The opening scene is confusing and, like the opening scene of Get Out, didn't seem to have anything to do with the rest of film initially, but a connection is eventually made. When the connection is made, on the set of a sitcom called "Gordy's Home", it produces what is easily the most terrifying scene in the film, which actually had this reviewer jumping out of his chair. And as effective as the finale might have been, what happens to the characters did border on the cliche.
Oscar winner Daniel Kaluuya, reunited with his Get Out director Peele, underplays beautifully as the horse wrangler, though KeKe Palmer tends to grate on the nerves as his sister. Loved Oscar nominee Steven Yeun (MInari) as the sideshow owner, though if the truth be told, it's Peele's stylish directorial eye that is the real star here.