Jordan Peele’s new movie, Us, recently hit theaters with a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. Some thought that the movie was bad, some thought that it was good, and others thought it was decent. Here is what I thought of the movie Us. There will be spoilers in this review, so consider yourself warned.

The movie starts off in the 1980s, showing us a commercial of the Hands Across America event. If you don’t know what that was, it was an event in which people would pay $10 to have a place in a line of people holding hands across America. The event didn’t go exactly as planned, and if you want to know how, I suggest going on the Wikipedia article. Anyways, back to the movie. After the commercial, it changes the scene to the main character as a child at the Santa Cruz pier. The main character, Adelaide, strays off from her drunk father after her mother goes to the restroom. Adelaide goes into what appears to be an abandoned building in which she finds herself in a hall of mirrors. She looks behind herself and sees herself, but it is no reflection. This is where the movie brings in the “Tethered”, a copy of a character who cannot speak English, but rather roars. Adelaide screams, and the movie cuts to the present day, where Adelaide is now a mother of two children, her son, Jason, and her daughter, Zora. It was hard to keep track of names in this movie, as each character’s “Tether” had completely different names. Another problem I had was that my friend and I confused Zora to be the one who saw her “Tether” when in fact it was Adelaide. We found out we were wrong when Adelaide talks about that moment.

 The family moves into their summer home, and when night falls, they see a family of four in their driveway. The father, Abraham, goes into the driveway to confront them when the family splits apart. A few minutes later, the Tether family has scared them into their living room, when Adelaide’s Tether starts talking. She talks about a shadow and the shadow-holder, and how the shadow-holder had a much better life than the shadow. Eventually, each character has to fight their Tether, with the Tether of Zora and Abraham dying. The family eventually finds themselves back at the Santa Monica pier in the morning, with Jason’s Tether being caught in an explosion and death. Adelaide’s Tether kidnaps the actual Jason, and Adelaide has to follow after them. Adelaide, somehow, knows that they are in the old building that she was in when she was young. And sure enough, she finds her Tether cutting people out of paper, holding hands. A fight breaks through, with Adelaide winning, and she finds Jason. They get into an ambulance with the other half of the family and drive off. Here it is revealed the significance of the commercial shown in the beginning. Everyone in America had their own Tether, and they are all holding hands once they killed their real version of themselves. The movie closes with a shot of people holding hands and helicopters scouting the area.

 I had a few problems with this movie. One of them was how it turns out that the Adelaide that saw her Tether in the building got switched with the Tethered Adelaide, and so that’s why that the whole “ Hands Across America “ thing happened. All because the real Adelaide got switched. I feel that Jordan Peele could’ve used a better reason. Another problem I had with this movie was that it was filled with plot holes. Many minor plot holes that, can be brushed off, but they still bother me and a lot of other people. For example, how did everyone in America get their own red clothes, and how did they each get a pair of golden scissors to use to kill their real versions?

 But, nevertheless, this movie was not the worst. I’m not the biggest horror movie fanatic, so it didn’t really seem that special to me. I would give the movie a 7/10, for great acting, but the plot holes bring down how good the movie really could be.