10 Recent Movies Ruined By Their Third Act

10. The Creator

Gareth Edwards' The Creator is nothing if not an impressive audio-visual spectacle, even if Edwards' writing clearly can't match his technical skill as a filmmaker.

And this becomes most apparent in the movie's chaotic, sloppy finale, which strains to cram a whole hell of a lot into less than 30 minutes of screen time. 

Protagonist Sgt. Taylor (John David Washington) learns that his wife Maya (Gemma Chan) is comatose and AI simulant Alphie (Madeleine Yuna Voyles) was modelled after their unborn daughter - revelations we're barely able to linger on before Taylor heads off on the climactic mission to destroy space station NOMAD.

Predictably it culminates in Taylor making a cliched heroic sacrifice, and the film hurriedly cuts to credits barely a minute later, ensuring we've got almost no time at all to sit with what we just witnessed.

Edwards clearly has a fantastic eye for visuals, but The Creator desperately needed a more finessed writer who would let the impactful moments breathe and not make the final stretch feel so breathlessly perfunctory.