10 Lame Movie Twists That Ruined Great Endings

10. It Was All A Dream - Savages

Savages is an example of a good movie with a perfect ending that is completely undone by an additional five minutes tacked on that is so detrimental that it doesn't just ruin the final act of the film, it pretty much negates the entire movie preceding it.

Based on Don Winslow's primal novel, the film looks like it will end the same way as its source material. After running from the cartel and abandoning any morals they may have once had, Californian drug dealers Ben and Chon confront druglords Elena and Lado in an attempt to save their kidnapped mutual girlfriend Ophelia. Things go south, as confronting the cartel often does in movies, and Ben is fatally wounded. Too distraught to go on without their partner and accepting that the world cannot contain the wildness they aspire to, Chon and Ophelia deliberately overdose so they can join Ben in death.

Except they don't because that ending was just a bizarre fantasy Ophelia had about the whole affair. Instead, the last few scenes of the movie explains, things went down pretty smoothly all things considered. Elena is captured, Lado escapes but is done messing with the trio, and they all move to a pacific island where they live out their days as peaceful savages.

Everything about the ending screamed that it was a studio note and was so distracting that it outright ruined the movie.