10 Recent Movies Ruined By Terrible Endings

10. Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts

If you want to leave the audience either scratching their heads or cackling at the filmmakers' sheer, uncut audacity, here's how you do it - tease a long-discussed crossover that basically nobody who isn't a studio executive was actually asking for.

The most recent Transformers movie climaxes with the Terrocons' defeat, at which point flesh-and-blood protagonist Noah Diaz (Anthony Ramos) interviews for a security job, which he's ultimately offered.

At this moment, though, the interviewer (Michael Kelly) gives Noah a business card and reveals that the building contains a secret military bunker. Noah then looks down at the card which has "G.I. Joe" embossed on it, before the movie abruptly cuts to black.

Though Hasbro and Paramount have been trying to get a Transformers x G.I. Joe movie going for well over a decade at this point, given that Rise of the Beasts' tease was met primarily with laughter and/or confusion by most audiences, calling it ill-advised is quite the understatement.

Though this never rose above being a basically watchable, meat-and-potatoes robot-smashing movie, that thunderously cynical ending dragged it down into "never again" territory.