Tagline
“What's a bad miracle?”
The Review
Jordan Peele's third film is his most ambitious and divisive — a sprawling meditation on spectacle, exploitation, and humanity's compulsion to look at things that will destroy us. Daniel Kaluuya and Keke Palmer play horse-training siblings who discover that a UFO haunting their ranch is not a spacecraft but a living predator disguised as a cloud. The creature design — a biblical, origami-like entity that unfurls into something impossibly vast — is one of the most original monsters in horror history. The Gordy subplot, depicting a chimpanzee attack on a television set, is the most disturbing sequence Peele has ever directed, and it connects to the film's central thesis about the violence inherent in turning living beings into entertainment. Hoyte van Hoytema's IMAX cinematography is breathtaking. Nope demands multiple viewings and rewards every one of them.
Fun Fact
Peele designed the alien entity Jean Jacket to resemble a biblical angel — specifically the 'ophanim,' or wheel within a wheel. The film was shot on 65mm IMAX film, making it one of the few horror films ever captured in the large format. Steven Yeun's Jupe character is partially inspired by Siegfried and Roy's tiger attack.
Score Breakdown
Total Score
23/30
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