Nope *

Nope is so awful it's hard to know where to start. It's so awful I don't want to write about because then I will have to think about it - and to be honest, it's not worth a second thought.

It's the worse film I have seen since Werewolves Within, and that's saying something!

It cost 98 million bucks, to cobble this piece of crap together. What a waste of time and money!  Money that could have been spent on something worthy, time that could have been spent doing something useful.  That criticism goes for me too, for having spent my time and money viewing it.  I'd advise you not to do the same.

Really? That bad? 
(Afraid so mate.)

I don't know what is wrong with this Jordan Peele character, I really don't.  He had success with his first feature Get Out.  It had a message and good humor.  It fell apart toward the end but it was passable for a first effort.  He was rightly given encouragement.  So Jordan said "Thanks for the moolah" and delivered Us, a hugely disappointing step back.  You'd think someone would have brought him into line after that, but no, they gave him even more money and encouraged him to go further.  So now we got this...this.... thing!

It's a mess! Uninteresting characters delivering poor dialogue and an utterly stupid meandering story. Set on a ranch, a small business of horse handlers for movies is going broke.  It's run by a brother and sister. Next door a Western theme park has set up. Now it starts raining things from the sky - metal objects and coins.  Then there is movement in the heavens.  A UFO?  It's the most dumb-arse UFO you've ever seen. It's probably supposed to be funny, but it's just irritating.  Sister says "Lets film it and make money".

Tenuously referring to the first moving image ever made, done by Muybridge on his Zoopraxicope, which was a man riding a horse, it makes some fuss about the man on the horse, inferring that no one knows the name of the jockey because he was black - a ridiculously long bow to draw.

The other thing that isn't explored is the Theme Park next door and the owner who was a child actor who worked with a monkey that went violently mad.   That might have made a more interesting story. But it's just another one of the many dead ends in this film.  You get to a point where you don't care. It's like listening to a boring, meandering monotonous speaker with nothing interesting to say, you just want him to finish.

As it is, the only thing worth remembering about Nope is the title.  I'd advise you to say it aloud when someone suggests you go see it.