After seeing the first Jordan Peele film entitled "Get Out" (which was actually really good) I was excited to see his sophomore approach to film-making. Contrary to the popular opinion on this movie, i found it to be boring and even annoying at times.
It's not that the story isn't good, because in a way it is good, plus once you have all the pieces to the puzzle (not gonna spoil that for ya) the story becomes even better. However, along the way there are aspects of the movie that are just too impractical for me to get on board with the entire thing.
[source](https://secretldn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Us-Trailer-Jordan-Peele-Get-Out.jpg)I have to admit that the imagery of spooky demon kids always appeals to me, and this film does an excellent job of this especially at the hands of child actresses Madison Curry and Shahadi Wright Joseph.
The film is told in a "flashback" type sense where the main character Adelaide Wilson was traumatized as a kid when her parents were visiting a beach on her birthday many years ago. While I understand it is crucial to the story, the fact that they would ever go to this place intentionally, let alone without her ever telling her family about that horrible day in her youth, is kind of impractical.
I can't really say too much more because if you are to enjoy this movie, you have to go in blind, the trailer only reveals a bit about what the story is, and I believe that if you are even going to attempt to enjoy this film, you have to know almost nothing about the plot.
While the overall story of this film is pretty interesting and thought-provoking, i had a hard time digesting the story because of the silly situations that the family found themselves in and perhaps that was intentional on the part of Jordan Peele. If nothing else, I do enjoy how there is a running soundtrack of "I got 5 on it" by Luniz, which was one of my favorite hip hop songs from the 90's.
Don't get me wrong. This is a good movie. I just don't think it is as good as the critics make it out to be.
