Universal Pictures is trying to make you believe that Jordan Peele is behind one of the most profoundly ill-conceived movies of 2025, HIM. The one thing that immediately unmasks the movie as “not directed by Jordan Peele” is in its image-making. HIM -- Courtesy of Monkeypaw ProductionsThe opening scene of the movie is shot for IMAX, simply because it looks cool. Then it gets into exploitation territory, in a blood-splattering epilogue that attempts to tie the movie’s story with spiritually-charged images. It results in a promising, yet misguided and aesthetically empty horror movie that’s best left to be traded by another, better director with something to say through their images, rather than being drafted as the brilliant film Tipping likely believes it is…Get the latest movie reviews, news, and more with FlickSided.