Review of Nope (2022) by Kgardnerxx — 28 Jul 2022

I went to see this movie yesterday, hoping to see something interesting and scary. What I got was bizarre, confusing and full of plot holes. I don’t understand why professional critics seem to go out of their way to ignore gaping logic holes in Peele’s movies.

It was the same was with “Us”, which was spooky and visually terrifying but had some seriously questionable logic in its storytelling. This movie took some time to get to the main story, spending a good deal of a half hour establishing the characters and backstory but then starts to pick up rapidly in what I was hoping was going to be a spooky and disturbing story.

Which it was, for a little bit. Unfortunately, in what I can only describe as a Shyamalan like twist, the story takes a left turn into… what!? The last third of the movie becomes faster in pace than the rest, but turns into a strange and often confusing struggle with the characters doing things that bluntly, I didn’t understand.

I left the movie feeling conflicted but as I’ve had more time to think over what I saw, has made less and less sense to me. The end verdict I had was that the logic of the movies simply doesn’t work.

Yeah, it’s scary in parts and has some serious jump scares, but that doesn’t save it from it’s confusing illogic. And to be honest here, I didn’t really like any of the characters all that much either.

They can be annoying and dislike able at times. Peele has finally worn out his welcome with me. As I said before, he’s become like Shyamalan, who took a good first movie and managed to make a lot of other movies, none of which were anywhere near as good.

Maybe he should try returning to more comedy in the future. Rummage around and see if you can find Key’s number in your junk drawer.