 Jordan Peele, master comedian, has brought some of the greatest scary movies in the last decade with Get Out and Us. And here he is again with his new feature-length film, Nope. The question is, is this worthy of those other two outings? Is it worth jumping on a Bronco and riding out to the theater to see? Yep. If you saw any of the trailers for Nope, which I'll have sprinkled throughout this review, you might be thinking, what the hell is this movie about? And I'm not going to spoil that. I will say the trailers really present this as a mystery, but the movie itself is very straightforward and easy to understand with the decent amount of layer packed in, a lot of foreshadowing and clever ideas that make you go, ah, okay, I see what you did there, Peele. I like what you did. Daniel Kalu is back in this one. He plays a character named OJ. That's unfortunate. He and his sister Emerald Haywood are the focus of the picture, and I have to say, all the charisma, all the charm, pretty much all the likable qualities you look for an individual in society went to her. He's a stick in the mud to watch, walks slowly, goes through his motions like he doesn't really give a damn, and I have to say, it doesn't make for the most enjoyable character to watch on screen for a couple hours. His persona plays with the storyline, but Kiki Palmer is Emerald, oh my god, she's just a treat every time she's on camera. She soaks up all of the atmosphere, loved her in this film. Steven Yoon, aka Glenn from The Walking Dead is in this, I like seeing this actor once again without half of his face on the side of a bat. Outside of those three, and down on his luck employee from Fry's, there's really not a lot of other characters in this picture. If you are an impatient person, forewarning, Peele takes his time with this picture. There's a good 45 minutes or so where things are just really kind of building up. Honestly, it had an old school feel to it, like I was watching Jaws again for the first time. The mysterious threats always looming in the shadows in the background, but you don't really get a good look at it until later. And the last 40 minutes or so of this thing are very intense. Now, if you don't have patience, but you have a phone, good news, you can hang out with the guy that was a few rows from me and have a great old time, just looking at the phone, the entire film, like, oh cool, looks like there's something happening up on the screen, but man, there's a lot going on right in front of me, you fucking prick. That's right, sometimes I talk about the theater experience on this show, so I guess it's a testament that I did enjoy this movie as much as I did, considering how miserable the audience was. I'd say there was a 15% drop in enjoyment because of Phony McGee over there and Lady Chatterley next to me on this side. This Gabby group of people, there was probably six or seven of them, they came in, dropped $137, mind you, to go see, no, five people, five tickets, a whole bunch of food, and they got an experience like no other. They chatted, like, really in the second half, it was like a goddamn potluck dinner next to me, just chatted it up, you know, at least it was about the movie, though. At least they weren't on their phones talking about, you know, who the hell knows what. That guy over there. A few rows up, there was a person vaping, that's always a treat, that's the second time I've had a vapor in a South Carolina theater. Who are these people? What is going on at the movies? Focusing back on the film, it looks gorgeous, cinematography, top of the line, the effects are solid, I never was taken out of the picture once because of the effects work, except for maybe a CG chimp. There was a monkey that was a, I mean, what do you do? What do you do? Monkey was, that was definitely the best part of the film for me, though. There's this monkey scene later where they do a flashback, yeah, I know, this is all over the place, but God, that whole section was phenomenal. If you're looking for scares, this one's very light on them. There's really only one or two atmospheric moments where I was like, oh, this is a, this is a bad situation, I'm getting a little bit nervous. This movie really works more as a thriller. It's not a jump scare type of situation. There is some gore, for sure, there's some gore. It's not overdone for the most part outside of one or two sequences. It's hard to really describe a film, but be vague at the same time. It's almost like you'd need to be a good movie critic to do that, which, uh, subscribe. Sound design is excellent too. Not so much the main theme or the score of the picture. That's very subdued, I barely even noticed it. It's just like the little noises, the little ticks, just the little cues. That's all on fire. That's all beautiful. The runtime felt maybe a little long at the end if I'm going to be really critical about things that you could have shaved off maybe seven or eight minutes, but I mean, that's such a petty thing to talk about, I don't even know why I brought it up. I would definitely check this one out if you liked his other works. I see no reason why not to. You know, outside of the horrific movie theater experience where people are talking sitting on their phones and vaping, I saw this one with my wife who recently vowed not to see films ever again in theaters after Jurassic World 3 because of how bad both the movie and the experience was, but she really wanted to see this. She really dug the last couple. This was probably lower on the list for her. She wasn't as impressed as I was with it. Still enjoyed it though. If I were to rank the Peel trilogy, the saga, I would say get out still my favorite. Then this, then us, with us having a solid first half, but really kind of falling apart for me in the second. And this, slowly burning into something pretty awesome. As we got up to leave the theater, I wanted to say something about the person on his phone and the vapor, but my wife said, Adam, you got to let it go. You have to let it go. And I did. I was the, I guess, bigger person in the scenario. I left, went into the bathroom, had a nice pee about it. And as I was finishing up, I saw the guy, the gentleman that was on his phone the whole time, ramp up right next to me. And he stayed on his phone while he peed. And that was just a bridge too far. That's where I, I couldn't let it go any, any further. So I, um, you know, I did the shake, maybe a couple extra to just kind of play with myself a little bit. And then as I zipped up, I slipped the elbow, hit him right in the nose, take his phone and just keep beating him into the ground. And he's like, Jesus Christ, tries to take off and tell some of the authorities that I guess were in the theater. I pick up the phone, spinning in my hands as some of the blood spackles onto the walls behind me and throw it hits him in the back of the head. He flies on the ground, face peeling against the floor. This was not his fault. He shouldn't have been here. He slides on his face, peeling his skin up on that nasty, old pop soak filled ground with the popcorn into the carpet, really meshed into the fibers. He slides all the way out into the lobby. Pretty much a bloody mess at this point. The group that was talking the whole film happened to be walking that direction at that same moment. They trip bowling pin style over each other onto the ground. Nose is breaking as they hit the floor. I took out the guy in the bathroom. Now I got these two. That's a double strike. I run over there, ninja style, take the guy's arm, pop it back into his face and then just start hitting him with his own hand. He goes down and now I'm looking for the turkey, which is a bowling term when you get three strikes in a row. There's the vape bitch across the way. I stomp down on one of the jackasses heads. His straw flies up into the air. I catch it and throw it like a javelin through the air. It goes vapors about to go in for a puff. And the straw goes through in slow motion. Shatters the vape pen straw out the back of the head. The blood trail coming up. My wife's behind her. She sees the straw sticks in the wall next to her popcorn. She goes into the air like confetti. She looks over at me, Adam, did you do this? I look around at the carnage and wipe some of the blood from my brow and say to her, nope. Well, there you have it, a two for one special. You got my review on nope and you got to hear me talk about how I wish I would have killed a bunch of people that were rude in the movie theater. Not really, this is for fun, calm down. Don't call the authorities. Again, thank you for watching. Let me know what you thought of the film in the comments below. If you saw it, did you love it? Did you like it? Was it kind of on the lame side? Hit me up, I want to hear from you. And hopefully I'll catch you next time. Take care. Hey, thanks for sticking around. I appreciate it. 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