Peele's caustic and scintillating directorial debut, Get Out, set the bar high indeed, and while Us in 2019 was a more conventional horror film, it atill bore enough distinguishing chracteristics, chiefly in its social nuancing. However, all that Nope has to nod in that direction is that the principal protagonists are a black brother and sister who happen to rear horses. As much as I loathe the term 'woke', that alone seems to have scared critics into puring universal acclaim on this film, because it has nothing else to recommend it. The UFO that appears in the skies above their house to harass them has no rational motive and ascribing its poor conceptualisation to an intentional decision by Peele to critique overreliance on gore and CGI in sci-fi films is ludicrously generous. The barbs against the superficiality of social media are tired and blunt, and on top of all that it's overlong and, frankly, dull. I know that the director has much more in his tank, so laziness is the most apparent reason for this pointless exercise.
3/10
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