For his third featue Jordan Peele turns his attention to the art of filmaking itself and the explotation of those involved. Its unlikely he will ever blow people away like he did with Get Out again (you can only come out of nowhere once) and whether or not this effort is better than Us is a matter of taste, but he's still managing to flip expectations third time round.
The film revolves around brother and sister duo OJ (his infamous real life namesake is mentioned) and Keke. OJ is professional and hardworking, desperate to keep their late fathers business going but lacks the people skills to get ahead. Keke is charismatic and would be the perfect foil to OJ but prefers self promotion to helping a family business she was never really made to feel part of. The business in question is providing horses for filming and the use (or misuse) of animals is a recurring theme, including a genuinely harrowing scene involving a sitcom chimp.
Scenes like this confirm Peel's ability to make an audience feel uneasy but by and large Nope is a more lighthearted afair, with magnetic leads and a bunch of fun side characters making sure there is plenty of entertainment to go with the suspense.
The only place Nope really falls down is in its ending which is too drawn out and seems to disregard some of the rules established earlier in the film. Perhaps that is the point but it still leaves the movie ending on its weakest note.
8 people eaten out of 10 audience members.
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