Yamato, however, questions if Jupe "merely imagine[d] the shoe standing impossibly in the air—and is he misremembering that just before being shot, Gordy turned to him in friendship?

After OJ witnesses something spectacular in the sky, he and Em –with the help of a tech salesman (Perea) and a documentarian (Wincott) — set about trying to capture this UFO on camera. Keke Palmer as Emerald "Em" Haywood, who is less involved with the ranch, spending her time chasing fame in Hollywood (or at least that's how OJ sees it). Additionally, the film features the songs " Walk On By" by Dionne Warwick, [54] " Strange Animal" by Lawrence Gowan, [55] "This Is the Lost Generation" by the Lost Generation, and " Exuma, the Obeah Man" by Exuma. He explained his decision to include a major focus on clouds in the film: "The beauty of the sky is enthralling—the first movies, in a way.R. Giger left his mark on the genre, or that Kaluuya's eyes remain some of Hollywood's most special effects, as Nope gets almost as much mileage from their weariness as Get Out squeezed from their clarity. More recently we had the end-of-the-world loops of Interstellar, with which this film shares ace director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema, a man who knows about capturing the cataclysmic on screen. The movie’s visual effects are adequate but definitely not spectacular for a movie concept of this scope. The Alamo Drafthouse Cinema hosted an outdoor screening of the film at Sunset Ranch Hollywood on July 25, 2022. It plays into the movie's theme of turning tragic events into a spectacle, as Ricky is profiting off the collectible despite the trauma of its circumstances.

Angel (Brandon Perea), a tech-savvy Fry's Electronics employee who's also a UFO buff, helps the Haywoods set up surveillance cameras.Jupe introduces a live show in Jupiter's Claim where he plans to use Lucky as bait to lure out the UFO. The final trailer shows, what appears to be, the main character’s grandfather brutally beaten and killed, before the family question if it has been caused by an alien life force of some sort, the following scene shows Steven Yeun’s character in a full cowboy suit, screaming to a crowd “are you ready? A man and his sister discover something sinister in the skies above their California horse ranch, while the owner of a nearby theme park tries to profit from the mysterious, otherworldly phenomenon. The site also listed it at number 8 on its list of the "55 Best Science Fiction Films of the 21st Century" and number 4 on its list of the "25 Scariest Alien Movies of All Time.

Acting was enjoyable, the cinematography was spectacular, but the story, the length of the film, and the antagonist weren't up to the par I was expecting.Brody also noted that the film's action "pivots on the power and the nature of movie technology", and felt that the film critiqued computer-generated imagery (CGI) in its TV commercial production scene, writing, "Peele presents [CGI] as a dubious temptation and a form of dangerous power. Nope doesn't have as much to say about America and where we are right now as Get Out and Us did, but that's about where any complaints might stop.