“Nope” (**1/2 out of four) was an elegantly done but overall empty horror psychodrama about various residents and actors (Daniel Kaluuya, Keke Palmer, Steven Yeun, and others) in an inland California town who start witnessing an unidentified flying object and have to scramble to find out its origins and to attempt to survive. Initially gripping and compelling in a way that harks back to the grandeur of early Kubrick and Craven but the more the story unfolds, the less frightening and revelatory it is and it starts to lose its way. By the end- you may ask “is that all there is?” Kaluuya is rock-solid as usual and the great character actor Michael Wincott shows up in a key role in the middle.