Nope (2022)

Director: Jordan Peele. Cast: Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Brandon Perea, Steven Yeun, Keith David. 130 min. Sci-fi/Horror.

• If Spielberg wanted to make a Hitchcock movie (or Hitchcock wanted to make a Spielberg movie), this would’ve been the result. While the step by step thriller/horror approach to an alien encounter is right out of Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind (and to a lesser degree, his War of the Worlds) all the way down to power outages during a UFO fly-by, and the scene of dismounting a pick up truck to see a UFO hovering above; the style is obviously Hitchcockian, most notably the suspense of the inflatable dancing men sequence towards the end, and a mid movie god’s-eye view showing the town from above - a salute to Hitchcock’s The Birds.
• After Jordon Peele’s masterpiece debut, Get Out, his second feature, Us, was a big disappointment - so I didn’t go into this one with any major expectations. I was pleasantly surprised. Nope contains what we as moviegoers are always thirsty for: lots and lots of beautiful, memorable images. I was somewhat dissatisfied with the ending (never as deep as Get Out), but that imagery … that was enough to love.

MoGo's rating: 9/10

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