20 Recent Movie Endings Nobody Can Agree On
20. Send Help
Sam Raimi's Send Help was a major return to form for the beloved filmmaker, though served up an ending that undeniably rubbed some the wrong way.
At the end of the film, protagonist Linda (Rachel McAdams) kills her a**hole boss Bradley (Dylan O'Brien) - with whom she's spent the story stranded on a desert island following a plane crash - with a golf club.
At this point we suddenly jump-cut to a year later, where Linda has become a beloved celebrity following her rescue, having published a memoir of her experience which is now being adapted into a film.
This is a prototypical divisive ending, some left unsatisfied that Linda killed Bradley rather than the two being rescued and forever changed by their grim experience.
But for many, the ferocious mean-spiritedness of it all, where Linda is revealed to be an unhinged capital-S-Survivor beyond any expectations, is what makes the ending so fun - and pretty much the most Sam Raimi way to wrap things up.