12 Most Hated Blockbuster Movie Endings

12. Planet Of The Apes (2001)

Tim Burton's 2001 reboot of the classic science fiction series came with pretty high expectations on its shoulders. Unfortunately, while it may boast a strong cast and some great ape make-up, it wound up one of the most underwhelming blockbusters of the past 20 years, as well as bearing very little resemblance to the original films.

The thing is, we might have been able to excuse how overblown and absurd it all is, were it not for the utterly incomprehensible climactic twist. Having helped overthrow the tyrannical apes ruling over the mysterious alien world, Mark Wahlberg's astronaut goes back through the wormhole that brought him there and returns home - only to come face to face with a Washington Monument at which General Thade (Tim Roth) has replaced Abraham Lincoln, and find that apes have taken over.

As to quite when or how Thade was able to get back to Earth, and travel backwards in time, without anyone noticing: well, that's anyone's guess.

Fair enough, they didn't want to directly recreate the original's 'it was Earth all along' denouement, but it beggars belief that they really thought this was a suitable replacement. And it certainly didn't help set up a sequel, even if that had been the plan: Planet of the Apes would once again remain dead until the new reboot trilogy began in 2011.