A FEW TOUCH-DOWNS SHORT OF A HIT MOVIE

'Him' is a great "concept movie". It proposes that the NFL and it's choices are actually [SPOILER ALERT!!!] controlled by a cult of Satanic businessmen, cheerleaders, sports doctors and trainers. And at the center of this is the current reining super quarterback, Isiah White*.

But of course in Hollywood's most recent fashion; it's most current ideation of "let's destroy it to see how well it works", the concept isn't executed correctly or should I say in a more entertaining manner.

The pacing, the scenes, the revelations are all ponderously executed. As if the script for this thing wasn't REALLY FINISHED OR REVIEWED. It feels 'green-lighted'- as a matter of annoyance instead of determination. And it's main premise, that of the Satanic worshiping football league isn't fully explored to his horrific potential.

Simply put the film wasn't SCARY ENOUGH. It didn't shock or rise to the level of shock. It sort of COASTED on the screams of the last BETTER horror movie you watched.

To tell you the truth I could've anticipated this from director Jordan Peele. His films always have a political subtext that feels jammed into the narrative, not worked into the script. Here he takes his usual jabs at "Whitey" and the ill-effects of slavery on blacks (never mind the modern, more general Black American experience of ultimately rising above the evil days of bondage to attain some success in the USA). We've got to be reminded every film that Jordan does that the "System" is rigged against the black man.

After a while you just want him to give it a REST.

* [NOTE: this is Jordan Peele movie so the choice of 'White' as a last name for a black main character has the built-in intended political overtones the director sought to portray.]