With the heavy weight of expectation following the success of Get Out, Jordan Peele's follow-up almost delivers. Pushing the horror aspect perhaps even further than in his first offering, Peele employs a dizzying and disorientating set of references, from Hitchcock to Haneke to Carpenter, from fairy-tale to J-horror to 80s slashers, making Us a real joy for horror fans, notwithstanding the callous and gleeful use of violence throughout. The game cast absolutely plays it to the hilt, the score is always interesting, the narrative again pulls real surprises with only a part of the story revealed by the trailer (although the 'big twist' is evident very early on) and there is a real energy to the piece that never lets up. The bigger issues are nowhere near as sharply focused as in Get Out and come across as either blunt or diffuse in their handling, but make no mistake: this film is Jordan Peele cutting loose and having fun, and audiences who buy into it will have great fun too.
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