What Lies Beneath

In a Hollywood obsessed with sequels, here is a film that incorporates its own sequel. This has a script that peaks only to drop dead, but rises again like a phoenix to take its rightful place, definitely higher than we thought it would be. The first half of the movie raises a conflict and, for all purposes, resolves it, and then does an about turn to dig deeper into the conflict.

Robert Zemeckis, the director, must have thought that his first installment wouldn’t really have the audience clamoring for an encore, so he clubbed the two to salvag....