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She says they are the ‘shadows’, the ‘tethered’, the ‘forgotten’, the ‘unloved’, the ‘unseen’, living down below, who have come to upend the world. Only Adelaide’s double speaks, in a strained voice, dragged from somewhere deep inside, and talks about their purpose.

Their eyes are fixed, their mouths set, their sounds guttural. Dressed in red overalls (strikingly close to the orange of Guantanamo Bay), they appear one night in the driveway of the Winstons, and proceed to make their way in, with little compunction, consideration, emotion or dialogue. However, Us’s dopplegangers aren’t really exact doubles, more like a nightmarish version of it. The trailers too surmises Us as a story of Winstons encountering their doubles. Peele himself has talked of a real-life incident that inspired this film, of walking down an abandoned subway one night and imagining what would happen should he meet his doppelganger. They have come for summer vacations to her mother’s place near the Santa Cruz beach where, years ago, she had a nightmarish experience at a Hall of Mirrors in an amusement park: she had run into a girl who looked exactly like her.ĭescribing the worst kind of terror, Stephen King says ‘it’s when you come home and notice everything you own had been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute’. You know, regular stuff.īut there is a ‘black cloud’ hanging over the mother, Adelaide Winston (Nyong’o), as she calls it and we can feel it. If there is some tension with their white friends, it is only on account of who owns the bigger car, boat, house. All rights reserved.The black Winston family at the heart of it is absolutely average in every sense of the world - decently well off, adequately close, suitably teen-troubled, amicably warm. The-CNN-Wire ™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. "No Time to Die" premieres in US theaters on Oct. Still, "No Time to Die" feels as if it's working too hard to provide Craig a sendoff worthy of all the hype associated with it - an excess that might be summed up as simply, finally, by taking too much time to reach the finish. In terms of Bond staples, the movie does deliver some impressive chases and action sequences, with Ana de Armas (Craig's "Knives Out" co-star) adding another dose of female empowerment during a mission that takes Bond to Cuba.

Yet while Lynch makes a strong addition, their squabbling banter is relatively weak, and merely adds to the abundance of moving parts that the even more-convoluted-than-usual plot has to service.Īn underlying theme is that the world has changed - certainly from the Cold War period in which the character was born - clouding alliances and making it, as Leiter muses, "hard to tell good from bad." That measure of complexity, however, hasn't enhanced a formula built on world-threatening villains and muscular action. Of course, his post-service bliss can't last, as M (Ralph Fiennes) and his CIA pal Felix Leiter (Jeffrey Wright) both endeavor to lure him back on a mission that involves a terrible bioweapon (maybe not the best time for that particular plot) and his old nemeses at Spectre, bringing back Madeleine Swann (Léa Seydoux) and the now-incarcerated Blofeld (Christoph Waltz) from that 2015 movie.īond also finds his slot at MI6 having been ably occupied by a new agent (Lashana Lynch) who has inherited his 007 license. That has deepened the character, allowing Bond to experience grief, loss and love without hitting the reset button, the recurrence of the villainous Blofeld notwithstanding.ĭirected by Cary Joji Fukunaga ("True Detective"), this Bond serves notice of its grand storytelling ambitions with perhaps the longest pre-credit sequence in memory, both introducing the mysterious new villain (played by Rami Malek, seemingly channeling Peter Lorre) and finding Bond happily retired. To its credit, this two hour, 43-minute movie (thus making the title a bit of a lie) assiduously builds on everything that the recent Bond movies have established, in a way earlier incarnations generally didn't.