Spoilers! I was finally able to go see a brand new movie in a theater!!! Took three years but it happened. L. and I went to see Nope at the AMC on Sunset and since it is one of my two favorite theaters I was very happy. So with a belly full of Pinche's Tacos we went to see the movie...after half an hour of trailers. AMC needs to chill on that. So this movie starts on a old TV show set with a chimp straight up murdering people while someone watches from under a table. A balloon popping set it off and it went bananas. Ha. The monkey, Gordy, goes for a fist bump from the young boy, Jupe, that is watching and then gets its head blown off. They show that later on though.
Now we are on a ranch owned by Otis Haywood Sr. He trains horses for for movies and such with his son OJ. One day a bunch of objects just starts thunking to the ground from the sky. OJ goes to check on his father and sees that one of them went through his eye and a key landed in a horses backside. His father ends up dying because the object that went through his eye was a nickel. So OJ is running the place and his sister Em shows up and she is annoying as hell. She stays this way through the movie. On the set of a film everyone is treating OJ like he doesn't exist and they end up spooking the horse and deciding to just replace it with a CG one instead. To make money to keep the ranch going OJ has been selling horses to Jupiter's Claim which is run by the kid that was on set when Gordy killed folks. He is the small kid from the show. Em wants OJ to just sell the place because she doesn't care about it like that.
One night the power starts flickering at home and a horse gets free. OJ goes after it and sees something up in the sky and runs back home. They decide that they need to get some good footage of it to make some money and head to Fry's to buy some good cameras. This cashier named Angel comes and installs everything because he is super down with aliens and such. OJ, who knows a lot about animals and animal behavior, says that the aliens are eating horses and spitting out what it can't digest (like the keys and coin that killed his father). They set up a metal horse statue which gets eaten and the creature loses its shit. They do not get a recording because whenever the alien is around electricity goes out and also a damned praying mantis was covering up the lens. Angel also sees that there is a cloud in the sky that never moves and realize that the damned alien is hiding in there.
OJ is like “This is not a ship. Its a creature. Avoid eye contact with it.” Bet. So they decide to get a great camera man who believes in them and that this could be the greatest image ever captured on film. Back at Jupiter's Claim this bastard has been using the horses he bought from OJ as bait for the creature. The creature shows up early and is in a foul mood because of the metal horse from earlier and just starts sucking up the audience and ignoring the horse just chilling there. OJ has been training a horse to run with blinders on and now be scared by sounds and such so he can use it to lure the creature away.
The camera man decides to get eaten by the alien and Angel is saved when he gets wrapped in a tarp with barbed wire. This TMZ guy in a electric bike gets his ass eaten trying to get a good shot. The alien opens up to its full form and looks incredible. I actually sat forward in my seat like “This is fucking unreal!” OJ lures the creature away from his sister as Em heads to Jupiter's Claim to get a photo of it using this old wishing well camera that was seen earlier. A lot of shit from this movie sinks in later. She lets loose this inflatable man that is making direct ass eye contact with the alien that keeps puffing itself up bigger and bigger until it eats the balloon and explodes but not before Em gets a perfect photo of it. She waves at OJ and the movie ends.
There are some things I left out because like the rest of the directors films I missed things that were right in my face as well as not understanding deeper meanings of some things. I would have given this movie a 10/10 if not for the way the sister was portrayed in this because she felt so out of place with the rest of everyone else involved. This was a fun movie and like a lot of folk have pointed out it reminded me of Jaws. I loved the design of the creature in both forms, how it behaved, and how everyone reacted to it. This is a see it in theaters type of film and I'm glad that I got to.
Daniel Kaluuya as Otis Jr. "OJ" Haywood
Keke Palmer as Emerald Haywood
Steven Yeun as Ricky "Jupe" Park
Brandon Perea as Angel Torres
Michael Wincott as Antlers Holst
Keith David as Otis Haywood Sr.
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