Get Out [DVD] [2017]

Fantastic film from start to finish. Manages a great sense of "dread" throughout. No cheap uses of jump scares etc. Just great direction.

A genuinely unique plotline that hasn't been seen before. It sits somewhere in the gamut of psychological thriller. The most disturbing aspect for me was the apparent self-awareness of racism within its central characters, yet their own deliberate self-analysis and questioning which strikes you as the ultimate, most believable plea for understanding is still just part of their vile delusion. A true representation of psychopathy having gone down the wrong path (as usual) and then relentlessly pursuing its decided goal. Elsewhere the film turns throwback familiarity into something deeply sinister. A very enjoyable film which will have wide appeal, but avoid if you just like gentle happy meanderings with plot twists resolved in minutes so you never feel uncomfortable for too long. The part that didn't work for me (and it is a very small part) is that some humour is introduced with the inclusion of the central character's best friend. Bear with me here. The humour in movies with devastating action such as Die Hard 1, 2 and 3 adds something, as it triggers a welcome release from your involvement in John McClain's predicaments. Here it feels like it's been grafted on like an afterthought. But the main problem is that the premise of the film is so horrific and the portrayal so haunting that it should have been left as a purely psychological thriller. That is, when the film ends with resolution and the viewer is released from it, they are left with a feeling that the resolution is barely anything better than the worst imaginable outcome.

A very well made film with a script which goes haywire in the last quarter descending into a ghoul horror film. The plot resolves around an extremely sensible black-white couple oozing New York Times (meaning upper East or West side) sensibilities and life style (great pads ! cool clothes! etc etc ) (aside from asking where they get all the dosh) takes a weekend to visit the will they won't they (be weird) parents in the country, which of course is in some all white enclave in New York, Connecticut, New Hampshire or wherever such folks live who turn out to be on the surface classic upper or upper middle class white liberals - who as it turns out are far from that. Enough of the spoilers but Guess Who Is Coming to Dinner rapidly morphs into a horror show where our hero has to escape the extremely weird and it turns out violent predelictions of this master class of a family involving among other things hypnosis, a Charleston style body auction, dastardly basements and high tech surgery rooms among other things. Tight excellent directing and acting by the two leads, our sympathetic hero and his ultimately psycho girl friend. What rings truest is the extremely painful and remaining distance that divides race and experience in America and that is what gives this film its power even as a ghoulish metaphor. Otherwise the pretty sick reality of the plot is the same as in that Guess Who movie years ago, in contrast a really painful and horrible film to watch with Kathryn Hepburn and Spencer Tracey 'grappling' with (horror of horrors (not)) their daughter dating a black surgeon (Sidney Poitier) and ending in an equally ghoulish resolution where gee wiz everyone accepts - even those old white parents ! - that interracial relationships are cool ! Gduh....The real horror is that the divide is still there - a huge one - and that race still has to be the subject of very good and ultimately well done yarn like this one or as in years ago very bad ones like the aforesaid Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. So much for the post Obama non racial society. Maybe some day people will be recognized as people not categorized by the color of our skin. So we should hope. Or continue to do so. This is a telling road marker that we are not even away from the starting gate on the long arc of history to refer to Dr. King.

This film by far ...man I mean everything is perfect about it ,I still have shivers ....funny thing is, I did not have any high hopes whatsoever ,I heard mentioned in a color grade tutorial or something like that ,I dont quite remember ,but it stuck in the back of my mind ,and finally just stumbled upon it , I said let's give it a go, so no huge block buster run time ,like 2-2,5 hours ,no huge marvel like marketing etc etc , but men it puts all of thos e into shame ....I can say with absolute certainty that this is a perfect story ,perfect film perfect acting perfect script, story development ....again WOOOOW 10 stars out of 5!!!!

Been meaning to watch for a while. Got access to it on a deal and ended up enjoying the film.It didn't go where I was expecting. It was fun to connect the story together in the end .