20 Recent Movie Endings EVERYONE Hated

20. Tron: Ares

For all of its visual splendour and that banging Nine Inch Nails score, Tron: Ares was ultimately a bit dull, and it didn't help that the film ended on an utterly lacklustre tease for a sequel we know will probably never get made.

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In the finale, program Ares (Jared Leto) lives life outside the grid and sends a postcard to ENCOM CEO Eve (Greta Lee), who plans to use the coveted permanence code to benefit the world.

We also learn that Ares is now attempting to track down Sam Flynn (Garrett Hedlund) and fellow program Quorra (Olivia Wilde), the protagonists of previous film Tron: Legacy, who were most conspicuously absent from this one.

Oh, and the villainous Julian Dillinger (Evan Peters) rematerialises as a program inside the Dillinger Grid, implying he'll probably be back too.

Except of course Tron: Ares has been a huge flop at the box office, ensuring that these promises are basically all empty ones. And more to the point, were they much compelling to begin with?

Another sequel centred around Jared Leto's forgettable new hero, with Sam and Quorra presumably playing second fiddle, doesn't sound like much fun anyway.

If nothing else, this just makes it all the more frustrating that Disney didn't pull the trigger on a direct sequel to Tron: Legacy about a decade ago.

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