10 Smart Movies With Incredibly Dumb Twists

Jordan Peele's Us may not have been a home-run of a follow-up to his terrifying horror debut Get Out, but it was nevertheless a taut, unsettling effort topped by a fantastic performance from Lupita Nyong'o.

Peele clearly came unstuck when trying to find a convincing explanation for the presence of the Tethered - the doppelgangers which haunt Adelaide (Nyong'o) and her family throughout the film.

In the end, Peele settles on the howlingly silly reveal that the doppelgangers are government-created clones living underground in the thousands of miles of tunnels beneath civilisation.

The government initially experimented with cloning in an attempt to control the country's population, but when they found themselves unable to replicate anything beyond the body, they abandoned the Tethered, leaving them to a primitive existence below the surface.

Though Get Out certainly wasn't a realistic movie, it had enough internal logic for audiences to buy into its ridiculousness, whereas in the case of Us, the hokiness of an entire civilisation surviving underground, even in thousands of miles of tunnels, invited the audience to ask countless logistical questions.

Some might argue Us is less about a strict logic than it is allegorising the experience of the lower classes - especially black people - in the United States, but Get Out managed to do so without going totally off the rails when it came time for an explanation.