Review of Get Out (2017) by Steve B — 18 Oct 2017

After the extremely positive way it has been received - rated fresh by 176 of 177 critics at RT - with 89% approval from audiences - the one thing I felt sure of going in was I could not give it a thumbs down.

That would just feel like contrarianism which I find so fundamentally lame. I mean, I hoped it would be good and I would not want to but . . . dammit, I have no choice. Thumbs down. It's not very good.

I don't know what people are thinking. It has the feel of The Emperor's New Clothes to me. So it's a horror movie. That is just not a genre I love - so there's that - but even if you do, it's not that overwhelmingly great.

The premise is very silly - but then that's true of many (most?) horrors - but okay, many people like silly horrors ---> but it's the degree of unanimity that makes no sense to me. It is getting a ton of credit for it's social commentary about racism.

I have no idea what people are seeing. There are a few random observations about racism which are far from fresh that are only tangentially related to what happens. The lead actor is not good at all IMO and there is a really bad plot hole that falsely allows something critical to happen.

I thought it might be a bit funny but no, not really. 4.4 out of 10.