"NOPE" (2022) Directed by Jordan Peele #nope #jordanpeele #movies #moviereview

As Jordan Peele’s latest cinematic offering enters its final Act there is a short scene that perfectly encapsulates the enigmatic and genre twisting madness that defines the absurdity and brilliance of his third directorial film. I loved Get Out in 2017 and I adored Us in 2019 far more than seems unacceptable in polite public society. His directorial hat-trick here is defined with a simple exasperated “nope” as, with the alien foe now fully on display and not cloaked in mystical shadows or the clouds above, it seems perfectly in order to simply refuse to engage, lock the car doors and ride out the eye of the alien storm.

Just don’t look it directly in the eye.

The exasperated man is “OJ Haywood” with Daniel Kaluuya reteaming with the director once more after their success with Get Out five years ago. Kaluuya’s performance is all stillness and grief for a Father and head of their independent family business who dies a horrific and unexplainable death very early in the film but this is far from the first of such bloody and brutal horrors. Bloody tangent tracks are laid from the film’s opening credits and almost immediately the film vaults six months later to find an already laconic and enigmatic son grieving the death of the family Patriarch and a broken, disinterested, reserved, quiet and emotionally withdrawn man. He continues the family business of horse training and “animal wranglers” with his sister “Emerald Haywood” who in the guise of a devil may care, live wire and boundless enthusiasm performance from Keke Palmer, is your star of this wonderous show. Where her brother appears lost, Emerald seems found and in a world she’s going to attack and enjoy.

The above opening paragraphs are taken from my original and spoiler free review of "Nope" I originally penned and published to my Medium blog site on 15th August 2022 and which can be read in full and for free (and please also consider following and subscribing for free!) via my Substack blog site linked immediately below:

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