Film Review – Nope

Jordan Peele has a particular way of making a movie. He’s scored commercial and critical hits with his previous endeavors, “Get Out” and “Us,” beguiling viewers with his vision for strange experiences happening to real people. He’s working with genre entertainment to deliver his take on the world and its residents, showing the most interest in the black experience. With “Nope,” Peele inches away from social commentary, playing more with the bewitching magic of filmmaking itself, digging into history and technology as he returns to the comfort zone of the unknown and the threatened. Much like his other two efforts, “Nope” has moments of greatness, but the picture struggles to get past Peele’s directorial fetishes, keeping the endeavor unsteady as it shares an interesting and unusual study of the traditional flying saucer feature. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com