Review of Get Out (2017) by Axet — 11 Mar 2017

It's too bad this goes where it does, because it starts off well creating a sense of underlying expectant tension made by people familiar with the genre doing what they can to abide by it yet also subvert it. The writer/director understands moviemaking craft better than many given a shot and shows some promise. Unfortunately it completely dissolves into sheer ridiculous contrived silly nonsense and tries to go black humor which while understandable undermines the thriller aspect.

Good thriller or horror movies have the very difficult task of being original and impactful yet not going too over-the-top, something the great majority of these kind of flicks fail at nowadays and most now making them probably don't even care, which is why they aren't really any good! While at the same time the bar has maybe never been lower with the youth audience just eating the junk up not knowing how good it once was or could be.