Maybe the problem is, I really like genre films. Really makes you appreciate whoever came up with The Purge. That’s just a terrible name, precious and old-timey to no purpose. So why don’t they come bearing every weapon that’s ready to hand - presuming you want to leave out guns because hand-to-hand combat is important in this film - anything up to and including crowbars, tire-irons, hammers, wrenches, bats, sticks, rocks, whatever does damage? Scissors could be in there too, but just ordinary household ones that you’d find lying around anywhere, not fancy shears that look like the Bronte sisters once used them for dressmaking and they’ve been in a museum ever since.īut scissors are necessary to dramatize Peele’s idea of what’s happening that fateful night, which will later be explained at yawn-inducing length and is called “The Untethering.” Monstrous doppelgangers emerging from the deserted mining and subway tunnels hollowing out the country’s foundation are already representing the oppressed working class. It seems too significant in a way that messes with the base-level symbolism that’s already in place. What’s not to like, right? I mean, that’s entertainment!īut the choice of scissors - exceedingly shiny ones featured prominently on the movie posters - alerts us that something is off. That idea involves a terrifying underclass of doppelgangers that show up in the homes of the affluent, all dressed in red prison-labor overalls and hand-protecting leather gloves, ready to gouge the bougie types to death with scissors. But - how do I say this politely - what a boring mess, with just a couple of scary scenes in the middle and a genuinely good plot idea gone wrong. When the credits rolled, they filed out dispiritedly. Even the lively audience of teenagers and twentysomethings surrounding me, inclined to yell out “Oh HELL no” at the scary parts, sat in ever glummer silence in the last third of the film when the massive exposition dump occurs. Because though I went off eagerly to see it, and leaned forward in my seat to drink in its wonders, I have to admit it that for me it was a bust. I wonder if I should recuse myself from reviewing the film.
Richard Brody of the New Yorker says “ Us is nothing short of a colossal achievement.” The film’s opening weekend box-office crushed it.Īnd critics are going wild trying to come up with more fulsome adjectives to describe the film’s brilliance. Social media is pinging with tributes to the film’s greatness. He’s very talented, and we’re all pulling for him. It’s writer-director Jordan Peele’s second film after his sensational debut Get Out.
I get the message that we’re all supposed to love the movie Us.
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