3/19/2018 0 Comments Get Out MovieThis review was originally published on January 24, 2017, as a part of our Sundance Film Festival coverage. With the ambitious and challenging “Get Out,” which premiered in a secret screening at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, reveals that we may someday consider directing the greatest talent of this fascinating actor and writer. We knew from his days on “Key & Peele” and in feature comedies that he was a multiple threat, but his directorial debut is a complex, accomplished genre hybrid that should alter his business card. “Get Out” feels fresh and sharp in a way that studio horror movies almost never do. It is both unsettling and hysterical, often in the same moment, and it is totally unafraid to call people on their racist bullshit. When he introduced the film in Park City, he revealed that it started with an attempt to write a movie he hadn’t seen before. We need more directors willing to take risks with films like 'Get Out.' To be fair, Peele is clearly riffing on some films he has seen before, including “The Stepford Wives” and “,” although with a charged, racial twist. His film is essentially about that unsettling feeling when you know you don’t belong somewhere; when you know you’re unwanted or perhaps even wanted too much. Peele infuses the age-old genre foundation of knowing something is wrong behind the closed doors around you with a racial, satirical edge. What if going home to meet your girlfriend’s white parents wasn’t just uncomfortable but downright life-threatening? ![]() “Get Out” opens with a fantastic tone-setter. A young man (the great, in two other movies at this year’s Sundance and fantastic on FX’s “Atlanta”) is walking down a suburban street, joking with someone on the phone about how he always gets lost because all the streets sound the same. A car passes him, turns around, and slowly starts following him. It’s an otherwise empty street, so the guy knows something is wrong. Suddenly, and perfectly staged in terms of Peele’s direction, the intensity of the situation is amplified and we are thrust into a world in which the safe-looking suburbs are anything but. ![]() Cut to our protagonists, Chris () and his girlfriend Rose ( of “Girls”), preparing to go home to meet her parents. Rose hasn’t told them he’s black, which she blows off as no big deal, but he’s wary. Get Out is a 2017 American horror film written and directed by Jordan Peele. It stars Daniel Kaluuya as Chris, a black man who notices unusual behavior from the black. Title: Get Out (2017) 7.7 /10. Want to share IMDb's. Track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! IMDb Mobile site. Feb 22, 2017 This movie by Jordan Peele, his first as a director of feature films, is a skillful hybrid, blending genres into something terrifying. Get Out movie reviews & Metacritic score: Now that Chris (Daniel Kaluuya) and his girlfriend, Rose (Allison Williams), have reached the meet-the-parents mile. Feb 23, 2017 Open iTunes to preview, buy, and download this movie. I saw Get Out as soon as it came out in theaters, and I never expected such a big plot twist!! His TSA Agent buddy (a hysterical LilRel Howery) warns him against going too, but Chris is falling in love with Rose. He’ll have to meet them eventually. And Rose swears her dad would have voted for Obama a third time if he could have. From the minute that Chris and Rose arrive at her parents’ house, something is unsettling. Sure, Dean () and Missy () seem friendly enough, but almost too much so, like they’re looking to impress Chris. More unnerving is the demeanor of a groundskeeper named Walter () and a housekeeper named Georgina (), who almost appear to be like the pod people from “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.” There’s just something wrong. But, as we so often do in social or racial situations, Chris keeps trying to excuse their behavior—maybe Walter is jealous and maybe Georgina has an issue with Chris being with a white woman. ![]()
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