10 Recent Movie Twists EVERYONE Hated

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.