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What an amazing effort! This is not a film about aliens. It's about human behavior. And it's an art film. Every poor review I've read here--of which there are many--is from someone who didn't get the message. Very few rave amateur reviews even got it. I didn't appreciate the film much myself until reading professional reviews containing *intelligent* spoilers. The people writing reviews here with spoilers didn't get it. Now I want to see the film again! Many things I was disappointed about actually fit perfectly with Peele's message, and some amazing touches weren't mentioned in any reviews I've seen. For instance, the protagonist OJ frequently has his head down, eyes shielded by his hat, and doesn't look when spoken to. I thought this was a surprisingly poor way to portray a main character, but it's fully intentional and fitting with Peele's message. I recommend not reading intelligent spoilers until you've seen the film. (I've not seen any spoilers in IMDB user reviews that reveal anything of importance.) See what you can discover on your own without being told. Nope is nowhere close to being as transparent in its message as Get Out. Once you figure it out, you'll see Nope is thick with symbolism. If you recognize what motivates Otis, Sr., and understand why he died (which is intimately related to the precise mechanism of his death, not just what killed him), you're on your way.

Impressive cast and production values but way too often (like every 15 seconds!) the spell is broken with too cute or too dumb dialog. (Case in point, Six as an afterthought says he feels he's better off with a bullseye on his back than if he'd stayed in prison. Not only does this line seem in-artfully added by the writers to make sure we know Six is cool with his situation, but if I'm not mistaken Six would've been a free man 8 years earlier if he'd not taken the deal that now pits him against the machine.) I couldn't stomach continued watching.

The first few minutes start out well, but the series quickly devolves into a sludgy mess that is tedious and sparse with information. I'm also not a fan of crowd funding vaccine development or the pandering to the audience for donations that the director allowed into the film. The general public knows next to nothing about vaccines and vaccine development and would have basically no oversight authority over how their money would be used in such a case. The naive might think that because the Gates Foundation bought into the effort that that should be enough, but the Gates will only look at how its funds are spent. Glanville states, "From an outsider, it's not always obvious that we've achieved a victory." IMHO the data seem clear that "3 (shots) + high dose boost" of his candidate vaccine is at best on par with the effectiveness of a *single* shot of the established, fully vetted commercial vaccine that is known to be safe and protective. While this validates Glanville's method to a small degree by showing in vitro binding activity, it's far from showing the sort of success that was promoted to the audience: a single shot that would be safe and broadly protective against infection by a wide variety of influenza serotypes. As Glanville's vaccine was never tested for safety and effectiveness in actual infected pigs, for all we know his candidate vaccine could produce worse outcomes and more fatalities. We don't have a vaccine to the original SARS coronavirus because vaccinated animals suffered worse outcomes (including more fatalities) than those that were unvaccinated. (Candidate SARS2 vaccines from a myriad of companies and using many approaches are still being evaluated for safety and effectiveness upon actual infection in phase III human trials.) Glanville's hope of finding a broad spectrum vaccine might even be extremely dangerous if a flu strain would arise that doesn't fit in the model. We might one day wind up with a greatly enhanced fatality rate in those who were vaccinated. The safest and sanest approach might well be to continue development of targeted vaccines but with a majorly accelerated, yet safe, development schedule.