Review of Get Out (2017) by Lanceeyy — 19 May 2017

I. LOVE. this movie. I was skeptical of it at first, since I knew the director was Jordan Peele, I thought "Oh this is going to be a comedy" or something. I WAS WRONG. The movie starts off with a light tone, and in the middle of it all it just gives out a feeling of discomfort. A feeling of awkwardness. It's a good feeling because that's what the movie sets out to achieve. The feeling of impending racism, of being stereotyped. The movie sets out to give us a feeling that we are not welcome here.

Coming into the cinema, I really had no clue what this movie was about, apart from what they divulged in the trailer, and the trailers even added to my confusion.

The movie does a great job of setting the overall eerie-ness of the atmosphere. The soundtrack does wonders to it as well! Although this movie isn't a comedy, it had some really funny scenes that you can tell Jordan Peele just couldn't help himself. The timing of the comedy, and the scarcity of it, is why this film is gold to me. The comedy comes at such a time where we're just coming off a heavy, intense scene, and the director just wants us to take a breather. A little comic relief. And it is effective! It is well timed. I applaud them for that.

I don't have anything to say about the acting other than, it was good, not great. What I will say though, is the movie is unoriginal. When I found out the real reason for everything at the end, I felt as if I've already seen this plot twist somewhere else before. A lo and behold, I remembered the movie "The Skeleton Key". It's not that old of a movie, but it had a similar plot. That's the only part where I felt this movie did weakly. The lack of originality. But where they lacked in originality, they made up for in execution! Bravo.