Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Us (Film Review)




Us is a good film that suffers from a case of too much information.  The film starts off with a wickedly enticing premise and set up.  The Wilson family—mother Adelaide (Lupita Nyong'o), father Gabe (Winston Duke), daughter Zora (Shahadi Wright Joseph), and son Jason (Evan Alex)—are vacationing at their beach house when confronted and captured by another family that looks exactly like them.  These “shadows” are deformed versions of themselves out for revenge—giving each family member a sporting chance (complete with a different challenge) as they enact their vengeance.  I really enjoy this aspect, though, unfortunately, it doesn’t last long as the family regroup and learn that they aren’t the only ones with shadow versions of themselves—with the entire country under attack by deformed doubles.

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