First off, I would like to mention I really like Jordan Peele. I have been a fan since Madtv, I thought Get Out was amazing, and I’m looking forward to Candyman and Lovecraft.
However, I really think Us needed a rewrite. I don’t understand the positive reception it got. There were a lot of tone issues and felt like it wasn’t quite a horror, or a thriller, or an allegory of our society. Some of the comedic scenes just seemed so out of place. So many plot holes. It wasn’t scary. Certain parts were just cringy.
My biggest issue is the plot of the film is that the reveal of the tethered would have been much better if it were caused by something supernatural or not explained at all. I’m willing to suspend disbelief if it is supernatural or a sci fi, but the movie is stating that the government actually did clone everyone and kept them in tunnels underground where they were never discovered. This created so many plot holes in my mind that I couldn’t even enjoy the movie.
Why didn’t the real Adelaide never just come up to the surface?
Why did the real Adelaide give her little Bond villain monologue to Adelaide when they both know what happened?
When does the mirroring effect/controlling your tethered stop or activate? Why did real Adelaide become controlled by clone Adelaide when she was done there (the ballerina scene) but then she was able to orchestrate the uprising. How did clone Adelaide get free will in first place to go up and kidnap real Adelaide? How was the son just able to force his clone (or the other way around if you want to discuss that theory) to walk into the fire? It seems like a DMV car or something.
Real Adelaide was forced to be with Abraham (the clone version of the surface dad)? Did real Adelaide fuck Abraham at the exact same moment that their above ground counterparts fucked each other, and the exact same sperm fertilized the exact same egg to create the exact same kids?
Their kids wouldn’t look the same. If person A is raised in a first world country with access to healthcare, a balanced diet, and sunlight and person B was raised underground on raw rabbit meat they would look different even if they had the exact same genetics. Why did they have the same haircuts?
If you fly from NY to LA does your clone follow you?
What happens to your clone when you die?
How did Adelaide orchestrate this uprising? How did she get all these zombie like people across the country to attack at the same time without any phones, internet, etc?
Where did they get the scissors, gloves, and red jumpsuits for everyone?
Why did the government just abandon the project? At the very least wouldn’t it be helpful to have blood and organ replacements for everyone? Couldn’t they be helpful for war or labor? Couldn’t they just use them to experiment on?
Who was maintaining the tunnels? When a light bulb goes out who replaces it? Where do they get the light bulb from? Is the government paying their electricity bills and repairing things that break?
How did they clone everyone? Did the government just collect the hair/blood from every American?
Wouldn’t the clones get scurvy? Wouldn’t the clones have a ton of health problems?
What did the rabbits eat? All the rabbits in the tunnels look like adults. There were no babies. To become adults, they would have had to eat vegetables and if there were vegetables around why didn’t the clones eat them?
Where did the rabbit poop go? Furthermore, what kind of plumbing system is underground for hundreds of millions of clones? Where did their poop go?
Does any other movie ever have this many plot holes?
Submitted August 26, 2020 at 04:28AM by iamjackscolon76 https://ift.tt/2Ek0sHM