Review: “Nope,” the third film from horror auteur Jordan Peele, is a sci-fi epic that feels both comfortably familiar and fresh.
Fittingly for a movie so big-footed it has scared away almost all comers, you’re going to want to see “Nope” on the largest screen possible, and with the best and biggest sound system. Set on a remote ranch in the picturesque California desert town of Agua Dulce, the film centers on siblings OJ and Emerald Haywood , Hollywood horse trainers who experience an unearthly visitation.
Before settling into its unsettling groove, “Nope” must dispense with some perfunctory backstory involving the insolvency of the Haywoods’ horse-wrangling business — who makes westerns anymore? — and the mysterious death of their father six months before the main action gets underway. We learn that OJ is a laconic cowboy type; Emerald is a talker, and often rather funny.
Things pick up as OJ and Emerald decide they need to document some of the unexplained aerial phenomena they have lately begun encountering around their ranch: a cloud that never moves and a dark, saucerlike object that can be glimpsed slicing through it just behind the photogenic hills. Not just document, but potentially monetize, by capturing footage they have dubbed the “Oprah shot”: an unimpeachable, high-quality image that someone will pay for.
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