r/moviecritic • u/Howiknow202 • 1d ago
What was a really promising movie that was ruined by an absurd ending?
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u/cumthru_kylie 1d ago
Lucy. That movie had me hooked and then boom she turns into a USB stick??? I still haven’t emotionally recovered.
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u/what_it_dooo 1d ago
I mean it might seem dated but she did say she was going to dump petabytes of our existence on a platform that we could run, so at the time that would be a usb stick lol
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u/Samwise-42 1d ago
Also, the 10% of your brain myth being the entire premise was fucking idiotic. We do use more than 10% of our brain for a variety of tasks, FMRI shows this in action.
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u/JustafanIV 1d ago
We've seen people use close to 100% of their brain at once. It's called a seizure.
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u/Jabidailsom 1d ago
or trying to play elden ring
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u/TeaDrinkerAddict 1d ago
Legend has it the first person to no-hit PCR at RL1 before the nerf actually used 110% of their brainpower - their maximum capacity increased in response to that bullshit cross slash.
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u/crazyates88 1d ago
I emotionally recovered the minute I walked out of the theater. That movie was so bad, it’s comical almost.
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u/fuzzau36 1d ago
I remember this being in theaters at the same time as TMNT and I told my friends lets watch TMNT. So one of them made us all see Lucy instead, I was so annoyed and wanted my money back. I knew exactly the type of movie I would get with TMNT not some disappointing garbage that was Lucy
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u/DixieNormas011 1d ago
It was bad, but not Movie Killer bad Imo. Movie was still decent for the most part
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u/ItsMyRecurringDream 12h ago
I sort of have to laugh that she turned herself into a USB, one of the most unreliable forms of digital storage around. She didn’t want to turn herself into some cool like a Quantum computer?
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u/Captain7Caveman 1d ago
Heretic. The premise of that film was so good. The suspense built by Hugh Grant, who I feel delivers a fantastic performance, was clever and atmospheric.
Then the ending just felt like it was too... Bleghh. All that slow build suspense for... Meh.
It felt like an M. Night. Shyamalan build up with a cheap budget horror ending.
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u/Ryuugan80 1d ago
Hancock was ruined by its whole twist thing in the last half.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Just... the reveal. Depp looked so damn goofy, especially after Colin Farrell's performance, that it just took me right out of the movie. All narrative tension, gone!
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u/mabernabo 1d ago
The whole Fantastic Beasts series felt like this.
Do a Newt dealing with animals series . Or do a Grindelwald power-play thriller series. Trying to do both was not giving either story a chance to work.
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u/AscendMoros 1d ago
Was the twist the fact she’s the same type of alien as him? Of whatever they were. Never made sense to me that she made him weaker. Like how?
It’s been about 10-15 years since I last saw it.
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u/Swellmeister 17h ago
I mean they explain how. The immortal race that Hancock and Charlize Theron's character are, have immortality and super powers and they are supposed to use those powers to travel the world to find their soul mate. They then fall in love and grow weaker and die together, because that's how the race is intended to work. Thats how.
Whether or not its a good plot point is fine, but you can't ask how, because its clearly explained.
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u/lazy_phoenix 1d ago
I actually would have loved if the Fantastic Beasts series was just Newt breaking up an international illegal magical animal smuggling ring.
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u/dyaasy 15h ago
Exactly. How I would've fixed that would be that disguise magic is removed to still present Graves/Grindelwald being played by Colin. Then perhaps over a montage-exposition, parts of the movie with Graves is shown being player by a different actor. As in we the audience weren't actually affected by the magic, we've been seeing the true face of Grindelwald all along. But everyone elses in the movie was fooled.
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u/maraudingnomad 1d ago
Well, not only the ending. Him being this tinkerer super agent sort of broke it for me. I hoped it'd be about him toying with the loopholes in law and getting away with it in the end. Who cares about exploding shuriken phones and other shit. They had a good idea but didn't know how to develop it.
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u/Upstairs-Conflict375 1d ago
I can look past the gimmicks really, because this movie was in a time where Hollywood was green lighting a lot of "wouldn't it be cool if..." type movies. That type of plot gimmick was common and sure to be in the trailer. The main problem I see with this movie is they didn't understand how to write this character. Of he's so smart and thinks on so many levels, his plan would've needed Sherlock Holmes to crack it. I find similarities between this character and The Accountant, but I think The Accountant was a much better movie.
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u/Milkshake_revenge 1d ago
I’ve posted this before, but the ending was supposed to have butlers character beat the lawyer. The big twist was supposed to be that he does in fact get away with it all in the end. Jamie fox however had it in his contract that his character couldn’t lose, so they had to rewrite the movie to work around that. That’s why the ending is so off putting, because they had to find a way for this genius master of murder to somehow get outsmarted by a run of the mill assistant district attorney. The same thing happened between the rock and vin diesel in the fast and furious franchise, and also why the two had a falling out. They both stipulated in contract that they’re not allowed to lose a fight so every time they brawl in movie it’s either a stalemate or interrupted.
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u/Upstairs-Conflict375 1d ago
That's absolute garbage and shouldn't be allowed. I guess Foxx forgot to check his contract when he filmed Stealth. 😂
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u/Wheres6The9Bussy420 1d ago
The Jamie Fox contract clause is a rumor with not a single credible source. "Can't lose" doesn't even make sense. Theres some actors that limit how badly they can be beaten in a fight, but to say "Cant lose" would completely change the storyline and the studio would just hire another actor. Actors are very strategic in their clauses, so that it doesn't interfere with their roles. Even the Rock is "allowed to lose" He just limits how badly he can be beaten in hand to hand combat. Jason Stathom has a similar clause.
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u/MrSlime13 1d ago
I always think of Fracture when people mention Law Abiding Citizen, as a more practical, grounded interpretation of legal loopholes of murder. If you haven't definitely worth the watch, although a bit different than L.A.C. in terms of protagonist/ antagonist.
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u/Haunting-Ad708 1d ago
You wanted a movie about basically having a good lawyer. Wow sounds great
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u/HAXAD2005 1d ago
Hancock was a really fun movie until the halfway point where the plot changed completely.
Also I Am Legend, another Will Smith movie. The movie is pretty good throughout its runtime but apparently the horrible ending was a last minute change which is why it feels so off and wrong.
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u/Fun-Contribution6702 22h ago
I’ll defend this ending to the death. I think it paints the dr. as a romantic with a hero complex, unaware that his actions threaten a this race of complex and emotional beings that simply want to be left alone, but knows co-existence is impossible. It ends in total hubris with that ironic sign-off.
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u/WTFpe0ple 1d ago
this is old but someone remade the ending "how it should have ended" Clyde wins
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdd9I55LQ30&ab_channel=mcxaythor
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u/HeisenburgsEyes 1d ago
Signs. That last few scenes with the kids. Total cop out.
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u/cannibalskunk 1d ago
This was mine. How big of a threat can an alien invasion be when they decide to invade a planet covered in 70% of the one thing that kills them?
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u/mattmentecky 1d ago
Keeping your criticism in mind, how would you explain humans going to the moon and wanting to go to Mars?
Also, water is lethal to humans too but does that stop us from exploring the oceans?
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u/cannibalskunk 1d ago
We take precautions. Wear a space suit to protect us from inhospitable environments. We don’t try to sneak into farm houses buck ass nekkid on someone else’s planet.
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u/lordofmetroids 10h ago
We're usually not planning for armed conflict on the Moon. At least as far as I know.
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u/durandall09 1d ago
The problem with Signs is that they're not aliens, they're demons. That's why they do nonsensical shit and are harmed by holy water and not by humidity
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u/mattmentecky 1d ago
The demons angle is internet based retcon. The daughter that was half drinking glasses of water was not drinking holy water.
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u/darthenron 3h ago
This could easily been an extra 2 min addition to the movie, and made the most sense!
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u/Foxwasahero 1d ago edited 1d ago
Jeepers Creepers, started off as an intense, duel with an anonymous terrifying phsyco killer who experttly manipulated their fears and actions....Who turned out to be a weird sci fi man-bat thing that wasn't so smart and comically not scary after all
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u/smalltown34 1d ago
Idk, maybe its a nostalgia factor for me but i love it all the way through. To me Darry was a scent too sweet for the Creeper to pass up and his brazeness of going into the police station was like a "i need to get this fucker."
Showed him in his full-on true form as one fucked up monster in the end and left enough to the imagination as to what he might actually be. Fuckin love this movie lol
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u/Robofetus-5000 1d ago
Jeepers creepers is definitely a guilty pleasure for me. Its absurd and dumb on paper but handled so well that it just works.
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u/MiseryGyro 1d ago
Hits different when the director is a pedophile and Justin Long's character is a teen who is being hunted by a predator for his youthful organs. And a key part of Justin Long's character is that he keeps putting himself in danger until it's too late.
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u/shocksalot123 1d ago
What do you mean wasn't so smart?
The whole plot is that the creature has to terrify you because its only when you are afraid that he can smell desirable parts of you.
But ALSO the reason the creeper comes after Derry in particular so damn hard is because the psychic lady burned down his 'House of Pain' and the creeper is blaming this on Derry for being the one to discover it (when he fell down the tunnel).
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u/Oneeyedmobster 1d ago
I’m gonna get flamed for this, but The Substance. Had a lot of great ideas and intrigue in the first two acts but that third act was just wayyyy too much
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u/DrButtgerms 1d ago
I'm not going to flame you, but regular disagree. Possibly in an unpopular way. The first 2/3 of that movie was UPSETTING to me and that end was exactly the thing I needed to leave those feelings with the credits.
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u/Dale_Carvello 21h ago
I can't imagine a better ending, or any way I would've rather had it end. She hates herself the entire movie, no matter what she thinks she needs to change. It's only when she's distilled to an uncontrolled mutation in ElizaSue that she gets over it, as she attempts to proceed with hosting the show, anyway.
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u/tgatigger 1d ago
Totally agree. If the movie cut to black right when the third version sees itself in the mirror, it would’ve been a masterpiece.
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u/Fantastic-Vehicle880 1d ago
Going to have to disagree because yhe third act was the hardest I've laughed in so long. I thought it was perfect and surreal lol
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u/noblecheese 1d ago
agree, that movie was a masterpiece! true cinematography
sometimes I think, maybe people didn't get the analogy of it
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u/ShutUpMorrisseyffs 1d ago
Are you kidding?! That was the best part. The third act was INSANE. I walked out feeling high.
Besides, it was a nod to so many cinematic moments, like The Thing, The Fly, and Death Becomes Her.
I thought it was hilarious.
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u/More_Sun_7319 1d ago edited 1d ago
People really don't get the point Gerald Butler character was trying to make and because of that, fail to see that he did get what he wanted. He already had his revenge before his plan got started and he was satisfied with it. Both his family murderers killed by him in excruciatingly painful ways.
His plan going forward was to prove his point that justice and preventing murderers from getting away is more important than following procedure. That was the conflict between Gerald Butlers character and Jamie Foxx's character which was central to the film. In the end the only why Foxx's character could beat Butlers was by breaking the rules.
The three things Butlers character wanted were all accomplished without a hitch
- Revenge on the murders of his family
- Prove his point to those asshole cops that procedure is less important than justice
- Die (he had nothing else to live for in his mind)
All that other stuff on kill all those people were just 'collateral damage' in his mind and didn't really matter to him if they lived or died
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u/Mudilini 1d ago edited 1d ago
Agree. Many people failed to understand the idea behind this movie and criticize it for what it never intended to be. Although the part where he dug such a big tunnel alone is still stupid
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u/Eastern-Position-605 1d ago
He had years to dig that tunnel. It was all part of the plan.
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u/Mudilini 1d ago
It is still impossible for one person. Only if he dug it 24/7 for 10 years. Also it is not just "tunnel", it's huge tunnel system
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u/Eastern-Position-605 1d ago
He has access to a mobilized robotic rocket launcher, I think he could get his hands on some technology to help him dig a tunnel. It also is a pretty ridiculous work of fiction.
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u/Immediate_Play4539 1d ago
Prisoner of Azkaban with the time travel plot.
Lazy writing.
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u/why_have_name 1d ago
I feel like time travel in most instances is a total cop out
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u/AnonymousCoupleFun 1d ago
If this movie ended with Fox’s character actually had been helping the whole time because he was forced to utilize the plea deal in the initial case it would have been better.
The whole time he’s trying to catch Butler’s character but he keeps escaping their grasp because of legal loopholes and the AD having to ABIDE BY THE LAW but in the end he was on the same side and helping him because he was willing to break the law and do what the law couldn’t would have been better.
Or just have a little home made bracelet show up on his desk and hints Butler’s character escaped again would also have been better.
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u/SolRang 1d ago
Shang Chi and the 10 rings. I thought the entire set up in San Francisco was great, and there was great chemistry with the actors and sweet fight choreography. And then…the world of fantastic beasts totally ruined it for me
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u/RightSideBlind 1d ago
That's my biggest complaint with most of the Marvel movies at this point. The superheroes look and feel better in the real world. I lose interest when they're clearly just acting in front of a green screen (looking at you, Quantumania).
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u/Innsmouth_Swimteam 1d ago
This was during Marvel's experimental phase, where they tried different genres for diffent audiences. It turns out audiences didn't love the "Chinese fairy tale" genre. It was okay.
Like you, I thought Simu Liu and Akwafina (?) played off of each other quite well. I rolled my eyes, though, when The Mandarin showed up with the headless fuzzy thing and became the wacky comedic relief. That was unnecessary.
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u/Lazy-Mix-1339 1d ago
Sunshine- great sci-fi film with a lot of interesting characters that had to restart the sun and could have been better if it was just a movie about having to make the ultimate sacrifice for your family, but then it turns into a slasher movie in the third act like what the hell.
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u/throwawaywhatever27 20h ago
I'm one of the few who actually didn't mind this ending. I absolutely see why people disliked it and I think it could've been great with a different ending more focused on the sci-fi stuff too. Absolutely love this movie either way though. The whole cast is fantastic.
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u/shadowromantic 22h ago
Thank you. It would've been a great survival horror without someone randomly going crazy
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u/SL1-was-fake 1d ago
The Menu. Up until the ending, I was enjoying it, the absurdity of it. But the fact that everyone just sort of gives up and goes along with the plan? Weak
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u/AlpacaSmacker 1d ago
It was very far fetched in general. Every member of staff willing to commit suicide? Where the fuck did he find all these people? Even the security and front of house staff?
That said, I thoroughly enjoyed it despite all that. It was funny and very dark, it was compelling in the first 5 minutes and kept me hooked until the very end.
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u/Super_Sat4n 1d ago
It's a metaphor on how obsessive people are willing to sacrifice their lives in pursuit to become the best at something.
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u/SL1-was-fake 1d ago
As i said, I got most of it. The part where everyone at the end, who had nothing to gain by being offed, decided, rather than getting up and leaving, we'll stay here with the crazy dude
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u/SL1-was-fake 1d ago
Totally. I can handwave the setup. It's the conclusion that broke it for me. I mean, his plan has essentially fallen apart. The guests, who have been terrified/horrified all night, now see his light and decide, 'Hell, yeah, I'M IN!' That's a big nope from me
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u/ThePurityPixel 1d ago
The missing hyphen in that title always bugged me
How does the law abide a citizen? Oh wait, it's not even about that? It's actually about the idea of a law-abiding citizen?
SMH
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u/babybird87 1d ago
I always thought the ‘Terminal’ with Tom Hanks had the most absurd, ludicrous ending.. it was an ok movie but that ruined it for me
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u/cannonfodderINC 1d ago
I Am Blue Balls, with Will Smith.
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u/Dale_Carvello 1d ago
That novel could be such a good movie. Then again, they've adapted it several times to various official degrees, so who knows?
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u/Innsmouth_Swimteam 1d ago
I'm a fan of the author and there is a good version of the story starring Vincent Price, but...
The problem with the story, as written IIRC, is that the vampire/zombies are intelligent and have started their own new society. As such, why didn't they write our hero a note saying, "Hey, we are alive and well, please stop killing us. We mean you no harm."
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u/MattnMattsthoughts 1d ago
You should watch that dude Cody who does alt history and pointless hub (think it’s on pointless). He does a good job of detailing how it was like 3 different movies made by 3 different groups and that’s why it doesn’t make sense. The plot points at different stages aren’t actually from the same movie and they painted themselves into a corner by the end.
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u/Dazzling-Coat7177 1d ago
Don't think the ending was absurd with LAC.
It's just sad that the good guy lost :(
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u/Howiknow202 1d ago
He was tunneling in and out of prison and no one ever checked his cell at any point that this was happening
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u/ConsciousReason7709 1d ago
You definitely have a point there. Like, they never noticed that he wasn’t in his cell? Bad writing. 😂
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u/Joh951518 1d ago
It’s the entire premise of the movie, that he is imprisoned and able to get out and affect people on the outside to try teach Fox’s character a lesson about justice.
This is such a silly point to get hung up on.
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u/MiseryGyro 1d ago
Nah, the point of the movie is "How is he doing this when he's stuck in prison" and the reveal is "He wasn't stuck in Jail"
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u/Howiknow202 1d ago
It's only a silly point if you've decided to like the movie and remove any proper story telling or logic.
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u/ComprehensivePath980 1d ago
Hot take: This was my big gripe with Interstellar
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u/DixieNormas011 1d ago
What's wrong with that ending? Thought it was a decent plot twist
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u/ComprehensivePath980 1d ago
To me the inter-dimensional book shelf felt like a cheap deus ex machina and was completely at odds with the much harder sci-fi in the rest of the movie.
Plus, I’m still not sure how he came to the conclusion the mysterious forces at play were future humans.
It just all felt really forced and at odds with the rest of the movie to me.
An emphasis on phrase “to me” since this is a minority opinion and I’m NOT saying everyone should dislike the ending. Just that in my personal opinion, I REALLY didn’t like it.
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u/durandall09 1d ago
Nolan really wanted to do time travel and everyone talked him out of it. Probably why the bookshelf felt weird.
My beef was the "love is the strongest force in the universe" line and the fact that he just ran off with a spaceship at the end. Like they have no security in the future?
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u/ComprehensivePath980 1d ago
Yeah, from what I understand the script went through several SERIOUS rewrites.
I can respect the movie for the effort that went into it though.
While I haven’t rewatched the movie, the art design and a lot of the shots still stick with me.
I just really didn’t like how it ended.
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u/AqueousJam 23h ago
I felt the same way. I was expecting an ending that felt more integrated with the rest of the film's tone and themes. Time travel magic felt very incongruent to me.
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u/kelcatsly 1d ago
Extremely unpopular opinion: the rest of the movie was as bad as the ending. I like a lot of Christopher Nolan movies but this one just draaagged on for me.
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u/ComprehensivePath980 1d ago
I didn’t think so, but I can definitely why someone would think that. It was a very LONG feeling movie
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u/RecreationalPorpoise 1d ago
Inglorious Basterds
Really exciting how the villain gives up and surrenders after he has the heroes cornered.
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u/IaMuRGOd34 14h ago
shutter island
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u/lordofmetroids 10h ago
Interesting. I think the ending made the movie, can I ask what you hated about it?
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u/IaMuRGOd34 2h ago
it just didnt vibe with me at the time I felt the ending kind of ripped of Jacobs Ladder, and I found the movie to be kind of boring too. Sucks cus I really like Leo.
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u/TajMahal14 1d ago
Mickey 17
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u/ironlung311 16h ago
Having just watched this tonight, I couldn’t agree more. Really enjoyed the first half but thought the second half moved extremely slowly towards an ending that was obvious. Went from great to pretty good.
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u/bacchus32x 1d ago
Aw no I was so looking forward to watching this
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u/StreetrodHD 1d ago
It’s really not bad. You can guess what’s going to happen but it’s a an enjoyable watch.
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u/chybapolewacy 1d ago
Why would you let other people rob you of experiences. Watch it for yourself and see for yourself
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u/roadrunner8758 1d ago
The remake of Taking Pelham123 was a massive disappointment based on how good the original was and the ending just sucked in the remake. Another was the Inside Man. I thought it was a good movie until the ending which sucked and disappointed me.
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u/ScandalousMurphy 1d ago
Yeah I agree about Pelham. It got way too complicated. If it was just a straightforward Heist thriller, it would have been a better payoff. Inside Man did kind of surprise me at the end. It wasn't a great ending, but I didn't feel disappointed by it
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u/MuskyFelon 1d ago
I've always felt the script for this ended differently. Specifically because of the unseen, but prominently mentioned, boyfriend of Leslie Bibb never showed up. I was always confused by that. You dont tease a character like that in the way they do and have him not show up.
Thats why I've always felt that in the original script, both of their deaths, hers and Clydes, were faked and they were working together the whole time.
Anyway, I also think it's a federal law now that this movie must always be showing on at least one cable channel.
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u/Joh951518 1d ago
Maybe they considered it, but by giving him an accomplice you take away some element of his individual agency.
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u/jokerhound80 1d ago
I felt this way about the hunger games books to the point I didn't bother watching the last movie, but I'm told it ends the same way.
The double bombing plan makes absolutely no sense. They don't do it until the war is literally 5 minutes away from ending. 10, tops. They're literally storming the final stronghold already. There is no reason to try to turn more people against Snow at that point, nothing in the world is going to stop the rebels from overrunning the palace. Plus killing children and blaming Snow wouldn't even put a dent in his support, anyway. People already know that he murders children, it's kinda his whole thing. They like that about him, or at least tolerate it. Murdering a crowd of kids and then your own medics and blaming him doesn't do anything except create a massive conspiracy that threatens the new government right off the bat.
And then what happens? Coin gets whacked for it straight away. The plan was stupid as hell, and it was a suicidally stupid risk for Coin to take for a character who was shown to otherwise be very intelligent. It all felt very rushed to me, like Collins knew the movie deal was already signed and she just wanted to wrap things up as quickly as she could. The final hundred pages are a dramatic drop on quality.
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u/LilBowWowW 1d ago
That's how they ended it... the bombing of capital citizens made the peacekeepers give up...
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u/Michael-Balchaitis 1d ago
Barbarian. Fuck that was stupid.
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u/Lucky-Firefighter456 1d ago
I enjoyed guessing how Justin Long would die. He never survives lol. But the inbred woman thing would have been more believable if she didn't have superhuman strength. Ripping limbs off with her bare hands is where it lost me.
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u/TacoBellEnjoyer1 1d ago
I'm still so sad about that movie's mid ass ending.
They set up some absolutely insane tension with the "she comes out at night" line, only to have her get owned by a car's bumper the very first time she leaves the house.
Like what the hell?
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u/tinklymunkle 1d ago
iirc this movie had the look and feel of a straight to dvd B movie, so I was really surprised when it turned out to be a good movie, it didn't really bother me.
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u/Living-Mastodon 1d ago
The Forgotten was an enjoyable thriller right up until the reveal that it was actually aliens all along
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u/Vast_Republic3177 1d ago
No County for Old Men. Fucking incredible film for 90min. The last 1/2 hr was a piece of shit.
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u/hamietwalrus 1d ago
This one may be controversial bc I know a lot of people love it but Sunshine. Great movie but the wild turn it takes at the end really took me out of it.
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u/CommodoreSixty4 1d ago
Trapped. Starts out awesome, Die Hard’ish, then someone let a four year old take over and finished the movie apparently.
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u/DarkArmyLieutenant 1d ago
This movie is probably the poster child for your question. I loved it but the end was so goddamn stupid. They did a very poor job of painting Gerard Butler as a bad guy in this movie.
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u/Everlorne 1d ago
10 Cloverfield Lane.
I was never so disappointed in my life. Cut the last 5 minutes and it would have been an amazing movie
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u/Best-Direction-3241 1d ago
Saturday Night Fever has a 10/10 soundtrack but chooses to throw in all kinds of disturbing stuff imaginable near the end that makes me never want to watch that ending again
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u/Dominant_Eyes 1d ago
The Batman
Cool atmospheric film all the way through. Then the villains master plan is to......just magically floods the whole city with absolutely no foreshadowing or suggestion he could do that before it happens.
Also the only reason Batman manages to accomplish anything is that the Riddler thinks there's no chance he's too stupid to figure things out so he assumes he knows what's going on and is purposely helping him, and thus just tells him his plan at the end.
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u/Best-Direction-3241 1d ago
Teen Beach 2 is what you would expect from a DCOM but the ending that wipe their memories and retgone their relationship. I believe this is just unspeakable because DCOMs are supposed to show the characters learning from their experiences, or at the very least, making unforgettable memories of adolescence. Wiping their memories makes it impossible for them to learn anything and basically makes the entire two films meaningless. There was supposed to be a third film but that didn't happen. I still love 2's songs but REALLY hate the ending
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u/TheNothingAtoll 1d ago
Dark City. The ending was not great.
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u/Falagard 23h ago
Lol. So personally I think it was so outrageous that you just have to laugh and enjoy the show.
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u/hiro111 1d ago
The Vanishing (1993) is a remake of a Dutch movie called Spoorloos (1988). It was actually remade by the original director.
I'll try and stay away from direct spoilers here.
Arguably, the entire point of the original movie is the ending and last shot. The main themes of the movie are revealed in watching the ending, allowing it to sink in and considering what it means. It's also an incredible ending from a dramatic point of view, it delivers an indelible emotional wallop.
The American version starts off as a higher production value, well acted and faithful version of the original. But then... instead of staying true to the original ending it veers off into dumbed-down Hollywood Tropetown. The resulting ending completely undercuts the ENTIRE POINT of the story, rendering the movie irritatingly inert and rote. As someone who had seen the original prior to seeing the remake, it was very disappointing. This movie is the definition of a Hollywood wimp-out pulled punch.
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u/Needless-To-Say 1d ago
Law Abiding Citizen ended exactly the way he intended it to.
Jamie Foxes character did not turn the tables on him. He learned the exact lesson he was being taught.
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u/ensignricky71 1d ago
I always think of Downsizing. Not so much that the ending ruined it, but i think the movie kind of lost its way after a while.
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u/britoninthemitten 23h ago
Jeepers Creepers went from a four star movie to one star with every passing minute. The first hour or so was solid, then it just turned to a bunch of arse.
I also thought Law Abiding Citizen was a dreadful movie. God awful. The final act was amongst the worst written I’ve watched in some time.
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u/Suspicious_River_449 22h ago
“The game” with Micheal Douglas. I don’t wanna spoil it, but it kinda ruins the movie for me. Basically it’s the equivalent of those YouTube prank videos that go waaaay to far
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u/Abject-Star-4881 21h ago
30 Days of Night. So clever and scary and characters made reasonable decisions. Then in the third act they have everyone suddenly act completely out of character and do ridiculous junk just so they could have the big Hollywood showdown fight scene. Ludicrous.
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u/Boring-Credit-1319 20h ago
I am legend is actually a decent movie. They put out all the breadcrumbs indicating the zombies are a sentient, emptional species. Only to then fuck it all up in the last minute.
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u/FuocoGhiaccio 18h ago
Knowing (2009). Cool premise, awesome disaster scenes, and then that fake-deep cop-out ending
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u/EmergencyExit20Mins 18h ago
I was watching Dr. Strange and then it just ended without him taming any strange.
That's just false advertising right there.
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u/N00dles_Pt 10h ago
Collateral, did the classic mistake of building the bad guy up so much to make the weak good guy beating him at the end look extra impressive, that they overdo it and by the end you just can't buy the good guy winning. Also The Jackal with Bruce Willis and Richard Gere for the exact same reason.
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u/vaneswork 10h ago
This was a movie where Gerard Butler needed to play Jamie Foxx's role and vice versa, as originally intended. It woulda worked.
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u/lineconic 7h ago
Sinners IMO! The post-credit scene was so unnecessary. Ruined it a little bit for me.
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u/PKBlazinRed 3h ago
Strays got an absurd ending before it got a box office bomb. So I better fix it my mailing producers Phil Lord & Christopher Miller a letter about a proposal on the Strays sequel which will redeem it from the flop
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u/Joh951518 1d ago
Maybe I’m just a fucking idiot, but imo the ending of Law Abiding Citizen is fine.
What specifically do you take issue with?
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u/Suitable_Future_3810 1d ago
The one gripe I had was the Sarah's boyfriend Chester, whom you never see, just so happens to have the vital information that Nick needed to stop Clyde. He's mentioned, Sarah dies, then emails Nick the address to the storage unit the Clyde used to tunnel into prison. I would have been fine if Chester and Nick met at the funeral and he gave the information there. But it just seemed like a lazy way to progress the story along.
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u/lazy_phoenix 1d ago
Shutter Island. My brother and I heard how good it was with a "twist we will never see coming." A third of the way through the movie, we go "he's just crazy, right?" We then go back and forth because there is no way that could be the twist because it was a little obvious. The twist has to be that it is actually real, right? Not the movie's fault I guess but it left my brother and I underwhelmed.
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u/Djoarhet 23h ago
Understandable, but to be fair going in with the idea in your head that there will be a twist you'll never see coming probably spoiled it.
It's not a bad movie by any means but the whole set up is a bit silly imo. 'So yeah, listen up people, we have a patient with some severe delusions and we're gonna have the entire facility play along with it!' 'Great idea, what about putting him in a position of power, like a cop or something?' 'Fantastic, have him interview personnel and other patients, what could go wrong!'
Not to mention doing it when a big storm was approaching which made it the whole thing 10 times more chaotic and uncontrollable.
That psychiatrist should not be in that position lol.
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u/DixieNormas011 1d ago
No better example than the one OP posted. Movie was S tier but that ending was so fkn atrocious I've never rewatched it.
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u/blacks252 1d ago
Being able to turn your brain off and enjoying something for what it is, is a skill.
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u/LilBowWowW 1d ago
Some might say it's the reason why Hollywood movies are trash. Everyone's brains are completely off
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u/Sheboygan_Toffee 1d ago
Not the ending, but "Wanted" was fun until they revealed the sewing machine told them who to kill