By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Jordan Peele
Cast: Lupita Nyong`o, Winston Duke, Shadadi Wright, Evan Alex, Elizabeth Moss, Tim Heidecker, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Anna Diop, Cali Sheldon and Noelle Sheldon.
Rating: Excellent.
Academy Award Winner Jordan Peele brings “Us”, his second feature film and once again he delivered like he did previously with “Get Out”.
The story centers on Adelaide Wilson (Lupita Nyong`o), a woman with a disturbed past who is married to Gabe (Winston Duke) with two children Zora (Shadadi Wright) and Jason (Evan Alex).
One day Gabe makes a suggestion to the family to go to the beach for vacation. At the beginning Adelaide has doubts but ends up accepting.
Everything goes well until one night The Family has an encounter with a group of Doppelgängers, who look exactly like them.
Adelaide´s past goes back to hunt her, the family and now everyone must find a way to survive of this frightening chaos before it´s too late.
The things that really work in “Us” was the originality of the concept and the idea itself. Jordan Peele again crafted a marvelous screenplay and directed a movie that I´m sure that people will remember it.
I´m very glad that filmmakers like Peele, James Wang, David Robert Mitchell and many others are trying to revive the horror genre that it was beginning to feel to repetitive and it lost all the psychological elements.
Jordan Peele with “Us” brought all the psychological elements together like he did previously in “Get Out”. I was very excited with “Us” when I saw the first trailers back in January and my expectations where fulfilled.
The way how Peele shifted times from the 80´s to the present day it´s done in a clever and original way. I´m mentioned many times that I´m not a big believer in flashbacks but here is the perfect example on how to use them.
The Score composed by Michael Abels, who also worked with Peele in “Get Out” was again frightening and played a key role in the film. The cinematography by Mike Gioulakis, who worked with M. Night Shyamalan´s “Glass” had a lot of detail and it was very interesting the contrasts that he played with in this film.
“Us” is a film that has a lot of symbolisms and I like the fact the Peele challenged us as members of the audience to interpret it however we feel like it.
Lupita Nyong`o is incredible , so as Winston Duke, Elizabeth Moss and the rest of the cast of this film that delivered chilling performances.
The ending of the film is remarkable and has one of the biggest twists I´ve seen in a very long time.
I left the theater with a lot of thoughts with “Us” but at the same time I was very pleased by the film that Jordan Peele made. I can´t wait for another project of his and I can see him as one of the most consolidated filmmakers of Hollywood very soon.
“Us” is one of the best films of 2019. It´s frightening, chilling and for both horror and thriller lovers this is a film you cannot miss.