Good movie, but zero rewatchability

Rating: 7/10 (9 May 2019)

Spoilers ahead...
Okay, so the plot is cliched (any film geek who's seen the old Rock Hudson movie Seconds or The Thing With Two Heads will roll their eyes at Jordan Peele winning an Oscar for Best "Original" Script, but for a first-time filmmaker, I gotta say this was impressive. Certainly Peele knows how to get the best out of his actors.
However the movie is littered with annoying contrivances, from conveniently-placed candles in an operating room (wtf?), a crash that kills the bad guy but leaves the protagonist completely unhurt, to a photographer randomly activating his camera's flash at the right moment (incidentally I think Peele got that from a Simpson's episode), to the fact that in a city of seven million people all the black people apparently know each other by sight. The criminal plot in this film is quite frankly moronic, neurosurgeons and trained psychologists are too stupid to realize they are repeatedly leading a bread trail straight back to themselves.
This all aggravated by the fact that the movie requires two separate people to explain the plot because it thinks we are too dense to get it. The last twenty minutes of this movie are pretty lame, as everything resolves neatly in a paint-by-numbers horror climax. As smart a horror movie as it is initially it ends up playing out a gimmick. Like The Sixth Sense or The Usual Suspects, this film only works if you don't know the twist.