First of all, the movie went on for way too long. 2 hours what should have been told in a nice and crisp short story. Some scenes were dragging on for way too long. There was no suspense or anticipation during these scenes. They just showed the same thing for way too long. In the end for example the main character walks for like 5 minutes through corridors to get to her destination. I caught myself watching the clock multiple times. And when someone is counting for the minutes to pass and for the movie to be over, it's never a good sign.
But that's not my main critique point. What bothered me the most was the reveal of who the doppelgangers were.
I was personally thinking that they were the actual shadows of the people. Like as shadows they were second grade citizens their whole life. They had been prisoners (therefore the redish suits) of their masters. And now they had finally cut themselves loose and free (therefore the scissors). And now they wanted to kill their former masters and take their lives. That would have made sense IMO. Of course it would have been diving into more of the sci-fi territory than Peeles first movie "GET OUT", but still... it would have made more sense.
The reveal of who the doppelgangers were opens up so, so, so many questions. And the main question being why the doppelgangers were copying the moves of their masters at times. With them being what they were, it doesn't make much sense.
The movie wasn't bad. But me personally, I would have just made it 15-20 minutes shorter. I would have had the supernatural element of them being the actual shadows manifested as distorted copies of the people. And I wouldn't have made the twist ending so obvious. When you have just one doppelganger being able to do something the others can't, you pretty much make it clear to everyone with half a brain that something is off about that one doppelganger.
What I liked about the movie were the characters though, with the family dad being my favorite. I like it when movies are a little bit tongue-in-cheek and don't take themselves all too seriously. Especially when you have kids going around and killing others as well.
Submitted June 21, 2019 at 04:03AM by Voidsentry http://bit.ly/2N22uQb