10 Movies That Completely Wasted Awesome Twists

9. President Coin Is The Real Bad Guy - The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games spends the better part of eight hours with Donald Sutherland's poison-happy dictator President Snow as its one and only big bad. However, in a pretty mature move for something based on YA fiction, it's revealed near the end of four-entry trilogy finale Mockingjay Part 2 that resistance leader Alma Coin is just as devious as he is, leaving Katniss with a painful decision.

Regrettably, given how good The Hunger Games movies once were, the entire final act of the film is butchered - Prim's death was so sudden it took several later scenes to explain properly, while Katniss' final scene with Gale made you hate a Hemsworth - but it's this villain shift that director Francis Lawrence really fumbles. Snow reveals Coin is evil too early and Julianne Moore plays the turn far too sudden for it to have the profound impact it should. It didn't help Phillip Seymour Hoffman's essential role in all this had to be delivered by other characters or via letter, but that's only part of it.

This is an odd thing that many books split into two parts struggle with - all those involved trumpet how it's a creative decision that'll best allow them to tell the story, and yet the finished product still feels as rushed and lacking in depth as it would have one, often due to a misunderstanding of which elements of the source material are actually important. Hunger Games is definitely the worst in terms of comparison to the quality of what came before, although Harry Potter's handling of Voldemort's one weakness comes close.