10 Recent Movie Twists EVERYONE Hated
These recent movie plot twists left everyone scratching their heads.
It's incredibly easy for a plot twist to make or break a movie - get it right and you'll have the audience eating out of the palm of your hand, but screw it up and it risks derailing the entire film.
Some plot twists are divisive, and then there are those that simply fail to hit with the vast majority of viewers, leaving just about everyone questioning the thought process of the filmmakers.
And that's absolutely true of these 10 recent movie plot twists, each of which landed with a clunky thud at best and dominated much of the discourse surrounding the film.
From unearned fan service shoved into the story totally out of nowhere, to a rug-pull so ridiculous it basically upended the whole movie, and a final reveal that even had viewers questioning how much they liked the rest of the film, these twists just didn't work.
Whether they ruined the movie or not is up for debate, but given the vitriolic reception to these twists, it's safe to that most see them as a net negative to the overall experience...
10. Briggs Is Jim Phelps Jr. - Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
The character of Jasper Briggs (Shea Whigham) was introduced in the previous Mission: Impossible film, Dead Reckoning Part One - a U.S. intelligence agent tasked with chasing down Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and his team.
In The Final Reckoning, however, we learn that Briggs is actually Jim Phelps Jr. - as in, the son of Jim Phelps (Jon Voight), the duplicitous team leader who was the original film's surprise villain.
While certainly a surprising revelation, this also ultimately felt like a half-assed, groan-worthy slice of fan service that Christopher McQuarrie tossed into the movie in the middle of shooting, rather than something that was actually thought out from the beginning.
Is it not enough that Briggs is chasing Hunt down because that's his job? The audience needs to believe that he has a personal vendetta for doing so - and one that has a contrived link back to the original film.
It felt forced and ultimately added nothing of merit to the story - a rather ironic outcome given McQuarrie's own noted disdain for excess fan service.