Huh? And huh? again

Rating: 7/10 (1 April 2019)

When Adelaide is a child, she meets a duplicate of herself in a hall of mirrors at the Santa Cruz beach fairground. The trauma of this manifests itself when her husband forces the family to holiday at Santa Cruz beach years later against her will. So, when a family of duplicates appears on their first night, she - and we - are not too surprised. Horrified, maybe, but surprised - naah.
Certain filmmakers believe their own publicity and early critical success leads them fatally down the path of self-indulgence. Yes, Tarantino, I'm looking at you. Don't snigger, Shyamalan, you're not off the hook. And as for you, Aranovsky... Snyder, come back here! All of you, you need someone to edit you, reign you in, curb your excesses, think things through when you don't do so.
I do hope Jordan Peele doesn't join them although, on the basis of this second movie, he is in danger of doing so. Much of this film is very good, particularly the performances from Lupita Nyong'o. And then we get to the explanation and the shock/twist ending/s. Well, we certainly needed an explanation (I'm still waiting for an explanation of Michael Myers), but this explanation makes No. Sense. At. All. And then the twist means that it makes no sense at all, twice.
This bit needed thinking through much, much more. I'm not going to list all the many, many things where the explanation simply raised more questions, I'll just say that an otherwise enjoyable paranoia horror with some splatter and some black humour left me frowning afterwards.
There is a very good film trying, and failing, to escape from a film which isn't quite there.
And the husband? What an annoying idiot. She'd have been better off with the one in the red jumpsuit.