Movie reviews: 'Nope' ambitious movie with unexpected twists and turns

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This week, pop culture critic Richard Crouse reviews new movies: 'Nope,' 'The Gray Man' and 'Fire of Love.'

This image released by Universal Pictures shows, from left, Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, and Brandon Perea in a scene from "Nope." This image released by Universal Pictures shows Daniel Kaluuya in a scene from"Nope."

Business is slow, and just as O.J. considers selling some of their horses to a local pioneer village style theme park, owned by former child star Ricky"Jupe" Park , strange things happen at the ranch. Some kind of disturbance in the force has caused electrical blackouts, weird weather, and puts the horses on edge. There’s also a cloud that hasn’t moved for months.

Like Peele’s other films, “Get Out” and “Us,” “Nope” has jump scares and disturbing images, but this isn’t a horror film. It’s a sci-fi movie that explores the fear of the unknown by way of Hollywood Westerns—it pays tribute to the doorway shot at the end of “The Searchers”—monster flicks, and of course iconic Steven Spielberg sci-fi films like “Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

The story begins in 2003 with convicted murderer Court Gentry accepting a job offer from a CIA operative named Donald Fitzroy to live in the “gray zone” in return for a commuted sentence. He will be part of the top-secret Sierra program, trained to be a “ghost,” live in the margins and assassinate people who need killing. He’ll be the kind of guy you send in when you can’t send anyone else in. “Take all the pain that got you here,” says Fitzroy. “Turn it around, and make it useful.

“The Gray Man” is a big-budget, globe-trotting adventure that makes up in exotic locations and gunplay what it lacks in intrigue and interesting characters. Filtered through the endlessly restless camera of Anthony and Joe Russo, the movie has all the elements normally associated with high end action movies. Fists fly. At times it is a bullet ballet. Things explode. There are tough guy one liners , double-dealing and death around every corner.The story is fairly simple.

“The Gray Man” is big, loud, popcorn summer entertainment that spends much time setting itself up for a sequel, time that would have been better spent creating suspense.This image released by National Geographic shows Katia Krafft wearing an aluminized suit as she stands near lava burst at Krafla Volcano, Iceland, in a scene from the documentary"Fire of Love."

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