10 Most Elaborate Movie Climaxes Ever

10. The Last Boy Scout

The Last Boy Scout, Tony Scott's first buddy cop picture with Bruce Willis as an alcoholic P.I. teaming up with Damon Wayans' disgraced football player to solve a murder, had a very different finale involving a boat chase when it was first scripted by Lethal Weapon scribe Shane Black. It's also somewhat infamous for tarnishing Black's reputation for a decade, as it was the first script in Hollywood to be optioned for one million dollars, causing the writer to be the envy of his writer friends and sending him into seclusion for most of the 90s.

It's not his finest work, but the script does have kernels of Black's trademark wit, with sharp 1940s Raymond Chandler-esque detective dialogue.

It comes down to teamwork in the end, with Wayans riding horseback during a football game and throwing a perfectly-timed ball to obstruct an assassin's bullet while Willis and the shooter (the late stand-up Taylor Negron) square off. By the end, the football gets shot, not the victim, and the shooter is stabbed, shot and machine-gunned off the top of the stadium.

And because f*** it, he lands on rotating helicopter blades.