Setting - an office building in Columbia. Plot - set people against each other by using the fear of death. Characters - unoriginal because we've seen them all before. Ending - OMG really? Like that hasn't been done before. I mean did anyone besides me see CUBE? CUBE 2 - HYPERCUBE?

So, this movie was predictable, of course, like a lot of movies these days. After I watched it I had to take a minute, or 24 hours to think about it, because in my mind I kept comparing it to movies like CUBE and THE PURGE, but it wasn't as original as either. Okay, I take that back. SPOILER - this movie is about a group of scientists who are conducting human experiments to see how humans will behave in certain situations. It is reminiscent of the experiment where a group of students are separated into two groups, one group is set to be guards, and the other group are the prisoners. The guards don't take long to start abusing their power and the prisoners. The experiment had to be cut short because of the abuse the prisoners were suffering.

The ending of this movie wasn't all bad, but everything from the beginning was incredibly predictable. The lock down of the building, the characters not questioning the new line of soldiers or guards set up, the fact that a group of workers was sent home, nothing seemed to affect them, nothing made them think about what was going on. Personally, I may have refused to go to work if there were new guards carrying automatic weapons when before there had only been one security guard.

This movie tries to be something new by using an office building and office workers, but it takes a misstep when it creates characters who were once in the special forces. It would have been a lot more interesting if this had just been straight up office workers who came to Columbia from America to make more money. Another thing annoying about this movie was the attempts at humor. There was a scene where a woman is beaten to death in a bathroom and when the killer leaves the bathroom the audience sees a closeup of a sign saying "keep bathroom clean for next user." Another issue I had with this movie was the characters. You've got the helpful guy who doesn't want to see anyone get hurt, you've got the joiner who does whatever he can to not get killed (even if that means killing his friends), you've got the love interest someone takes notice of and wants to sex up, you've got the lucky girl who may or may not get killed at the end, and you've got the background people who make an impression but don't stick with you. Oh, and I forgot, the stoner, you've got the stoner and the bad ass who you KNOW is going to be the bad guy!

I had high hopes for this movie. As a horror movie is was a gore fest with exploding heads and people slipping in blood. There was in fact blood everywhere. Which, bonus, makes it an actually horror movie! I have watched a bunch of movies lately that have been labeled horror and have been more of a thriller or suspense, so while this wasn't a good movie, I was pleased that it was a horror movie. As I started, I had high hopes for this movie, but it was just another movie about people being forced to survive by, well, killing other people. It isn't an original idea, and the end of the movie leads the audience to believe that there will be a second movie.

I am sure there are people who disagree with me, but hey, it's one opinion. I didn't care for it. I wish I could find a horror movie to scare me, or make me think, or at least make me check under the bed before I go to sleep.

From IMDb and pretty much the best synopsis of the movie without giving too much of it away: A young African-American man visits his Caucasian girlfriend's mysterious family estate. This movie first made me think of a lot of other movies I have seen, like STEPFORD WIVES and more recently A CURE FOR WELLNESS, so I wondered if it would be any good, and it surprised me.

Now there aren't a lot of new horror movies out that are any good, but lately I have seen a few that not only look promising but were. SPLIT was a great movie, although not necessarily a horror movie. A movie to soon be released titled THE BELKO EXPERIMENT looks fantastic, although in the line of THE PURGE series, it looks like a different take on people stuck in a cycle that only has one way out. It seems similar to the CUBE series, which if you haven't seen I highly recommend. The endings are not satisfying, but the premise behind them is fantastic, although once you see the first one the rest will kind of seem similar.

Back to GET OUT. A young African-American man travels to a notoriously white upscale neighborhood to visit his girlfriend's family for the first time. The young man, Chris, has only been dating his girlfriend, Rose, for about four months, and they arrive just in time for an annual party in honor of her grandparents. Things get a little creepy when Chris finds his cell phone continually unplugged, and eventually dead. The group of affluent people do act like they have not seen a person of color before, commenting on Chris' body shape and his sexual prowess, as well as his size. Eventually a sinister element is introduced and the audience sees what is really going on. The ending of this movie was awesome, and it attempted to break the stereotypes of African-Americans in horror movies (they get killed first, they walk right into the arms of death, they die brutal and horrifying deaths).

I really enjoyed this movie. I felt that it was a little slow while it built up the suspense and tried making the audience wonder what was happening. I felt that there were times when the darkness was a little too obvious and overbearing, but overall it was not a bad representation of a bad part of town. I would have liked it to be a little less STEPFORD WIVES, and at a certain part there (where a young man is introduced but later not saved) could have been a little more explanation. The plot device could have used a little bit more explanation as well.

I will say that this movie was very enjoyable, and the ending was a fabulous ending, very satisfying. While some may actually see it coming, it was still great.

I recommend this movie to everyone, it had humor, horror, and suspense. Plus, and I'll be honest here, in today's political climate, it really made one think.