US REVIEW
I cannot tell you how disappointed I am in
US sets up everything: the metaphors, the symbology, the ominous camera angles, the dread, terror and horror. The kryptonite is in the film’s script — and more to the point, its explanation —which did the unholiest of unholy acts in a movie: it immediately took me out of the well-crafted tension and drama, and forced me to tear everything apart through annoying but inescapable logic.
The right horror film should make you walk out of the theater ruminating over its metaphors while making you distrust what’s waiting in your car’s backseat. US forced me to wave all that away from its badly chosen explanation. Damn.
