10 Recent Movie Deaths NOBODY Saw Coming

10. Lena Macarro - Ballerina

Mid-way through Ballerina, we learn that one of the film's assassin villains, Lena (Catalina Sandino Moreno), is actually the long-list sister of our protagonist, Eve (Ana de Armas).

It's a half-assed reveal at best, and yet audiences likely expected Lena to switch sides once the truth was out, teaming up with Eve in the third act to help her take down the cult leader known as The Chancellor (Gabriel Byrne).

But surprisingly enough that's not what happens - not even close.

A hot minute after Lena and Eve have a quasi-reconciliation, the Chancellor's goons toss some grenades into the building where they're holed up, wounding Eve and killing Lena.

It's a pretty lousy death for an apparently important character - far from the heroic sacrificial demise you might expect her to have while saving her younger sister. 

Then again, considering how Ballerina was infamously salvaged by reshoots, it's possible this abrupt, lackluster death was a casualty of the film's strained editorial process.