Review of Nope (2022) by Imtheonlytye — 22 Jul 2022

This was much better than Us. I came into this movie with very low expectations and I ended up enjoying it quite a bit. Some people are saying that this is a masterpiece. Nope... it's most certainly not one.

But it's definitely not bad by any means like some others are saying. I've seen a lot of alien movies, but I respect how incredibly unique this was. That's rare. The creature looked dope AF! The design was fantastic, and the concept was really good.

I would say this creature is now one of my new favorites when it comes to original and creative alien ideas. There were some funny parts, but I feel like they had a funny scene or a specific thing, like "nope", and repeated it multiple times knowing it would get laughs.

Whoever did the cinematography did really well! I loved the cinematography. I enjoyed the characters for the most part, but many were sort of lacking. They're not very memorable to me. In these kinds of movies, I don't know if "memorable characters" really matter, per se, because the entire point is the alien.

I still liked them tho, especially OJ. He was my favorite. The pacing at the beginning for me was kind of slow for a bit and they added some things that, to me, were kind of irrelevant to the story. It didn't feel like 2hrs 11mins, but I feel like they still could have made it a tad shorter.

The plot was... meh. Not anything too exciting or motivating. There were certain things about the alien that didn't really make sense to me. And a few things that were figured out by OJ that made me think to myself, "how did he even figure that out?" Other than that, I rather enjoyed this film, especially when I thought I wasn't going to like it because I didn't really like Us.

Anyway, this was a creative, unique, and well-rounded movie/story and if Jordan Peele continues in this direction then I'm sure to enjoy much more of his films.