GET OUT (2017) - REVIEW

A young African-American man visits his Caucasian girlfriend's mysterious family estate. Sounds unreal, sounds, funny, sound also strange, and so I am talking about the best movie right now at IMDB (8.3/10), 99% score at Rotten Tomatoes, and a Hall of Fame score of 83 out of 100:

GET OUT (2017)

 

TRAILER

GET OUT (2017) has a runtime of 106 minutes, the movie is R rated, and starts in the USA and Asia-Pacific area on March 15, in Europe end of May (on further details yet known).

Storyline:

A young black man visits his white girlfriend's family estate where he learns that many of its residents, who are black, have gone missing, and he soon learns the horrible truth when a fellow black man on the estate warns him to "get out". He soon learns this is easier said than done.

 

As you can see in the trailer already, which caught me so much, when I saw the first sequences in December already, and I still have goosebumps when I remember the movie, that there is something strange happening at his family gathering, and the storyline tells us also already to GET OUT actually. But about the story later on a bit more details, without telling you too much details.

 

Let's talk about the 

 

Cast

Daniel Kaluuya
as Chris Washington

Allison Williams
as Rose Armitage

Catherine Keener
as Missy Armitage

Bradley Whitford
as Dean Armitage

Caleb Landry Jones
as Jeremy Armitage

Marcus Henderson
as Walter

 

So Daniel Kaluuya as Chris Washington is guy who will be brought to the village, he is the main character, and freaking good, and I mean it. He acts funny at the beginning of the movie, he turns into a serious man, who wants to impress the family, and at the end of the movie, he turns into the stranger, where you do not know anymore, wether the happenings are real or not, also the way he changes, his scared faces, and his brutal way acting and of being that person, who wants to come home and who will do anything to survive, is so awesome, it is so impressive, and outstanding in his performance.

Then we have Allison Williams as Rose Armitage (the name is program), Chris's girlfriend, an actor with her very own story, and be sure, she is not that nice girlfriend who just wants you to visit her family. Her performance is okay, especially at the beginning of the movie, which starts really slow, when it comes up to catch the audience, and who creates the emotional part / character of the movie. It is always important for a movie, that there are character, who can create a contact to the audience, and in GET OUT it's her.

I don't want to talk about the other characters here, because I might tell you too much, and since we get an impression of them in the trailer already, it should be fine, discover it on your own, you won't regret it.

The camera is good, it creates an atmosphere especially at the beginning of the movie, which is like the 90s, we have Indian Summer time, and it is great to see how slow a movie can start, how funny, but then it turns into a mostlikely horror movie. The camera knows how to follow this transition, speeds up, creates dark and scary moment, and follows the main character where he goes (Chris), so it is like a third man movie.

The setting is the house of the visited family most of the time, nothing special, but the scary moments are very spontaneous, and you never know, where the movie will take you next. It plays with you, it wants to confuse you, and it wants to catch you, that you cannot get out also (speaking about your mind and attention), which is at the same time the best and strongest effect of the movie.

This is all what I can say about the movie, camera, settings, and effects, as well as characters.

As promised here are some details about the movie, and after that I will conclued.

Sketch comedian Jordan Peele (of Comedy Central's Key and Peele) makes his directing debut with a horror movie that sticks closely to genre convention even as its ribbing of white liberals hardens into a social point. A young photographer (Daniel Kaluuya) travels to upstate New York with his white girlfriend (Allison Williams) to stay with her easygoing parents (Catherine Keener, Bradley Whitford) and meet their middle-class friends; plunged into this white world, he endures a series of awkward and condescending remarks and begins to suspect his hosts have sinister intentions toward him. Peele, backed by the cagey horror outfit Blumhouse Productions (Insidious, Paranormal Activity), demonstrates a fannish love for cliche, which gradually dilutes his idiosyncratic take on the perils of assimilation. With Caleb Landry Jones and Betty Gabriel, wonderful as the family’s spooky black maid. 

 

The movie is super hipped on IMDB, everyone is going to the cinema and watches this movie, so do I agree?

 

What I like about the movie:

- storyline and telling

- effects

- outstanding performance of the main character Chris

- spooky and jump scares at the right moment, when they are needed

- last but not least it is finally again a movie, which scared you and creates so much psycho drama also in your mind, that I had goosebumps the whole time. I watched it during the weekly screen casts, and yes I will go to the movie house also again just to have the special cinema feeling and I guess the movie will be much more better

What I don't like about the movie:

- only one thing: too many cliche about black and white couples, but I guess it was usual during the 90s, so it is just a minor minus point

Means at the end: you have to watch it. GET OUT is awesome, scary, dives into your mind, it is psycho, horror, and fun at the same, but combined in a great way. Good job by the Director, great debut, and again an oustanding performance of the main characters.

So I will give GET OUT for his genre horror and mystery for sure and well deserved 10 out of 10 points, all in all compared to all the other movies out there 9.5 out of 10 points and GET OUT really means to get out, that is the reason why I used the writting GET OUT, and so I wish you a lot of spooky and great moments watching this must have watched movie.