10 Amazing Plot Twists In Otherwise Awful Movies
Say what you will about Joker 2, but the ending twist is pretty great.
Everyone loves a good plot twist, and it's not surprising that so many contemporary movies try to have one. Just look at the IMDb Top 250: movies with a good plot twist are heavily over-represented on there, whether they deserve a spot or not.
A satisfying, well-executed plot twist can go a long way toward saving a bad movie outright, and even if it doesn't do that, it's likely that viewers might look back on the film at least a little more fondly if it successfully fooled them in a clever way. That's very much the case with the following ten movies.
None of these pictures ended up being any good, but all of them, ironically enough, feature legitimately excellent plot twists, ranging from clever surprise villains to razor-sharp subversions of expectations that are hard to see coming and really enhance the entire film. As such, even though these twists didn't rescue the movie, per se, the features don't feel like a complete waste of time. At least they had one good trick up their sleeve, eh?
As it should go without saying, massive spoilers lie ahead.
10. The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 - The Final Battle Was A Premonition
This was really, really clever.
The novel of Breaking Dawn has been criticized over the years for its completely anticlimactic ending, in which the Cullens and the Voltouri (the cruel vampire government) have a conversation and then part ways without having a showdown. Breaking Dawn Part 2 came up with a really smart way to work around this.
Alice Cullen (Ashley Greene), one of the vampires, has used her ability to look into the future throughout the franchise, and she convinces Voltouri leader Aro (Michael Sheen) to retreat by showing him a vision of a violent battle in which he is killed. So, even though the battle doesn't really happen, we still get to see it - it's pretty awesome too, and by far the best part of the movie.
In regards to the Twilight Saga, the first film was perfectly OK, but the sequels were all godawful and were consistently dragged down by the numbingly awful acting and writing. Breaking Dawn Part 2 might've been the best since the first movie, yet it was still weak and lifeless, so the fact that it did something this intelligent was quite the pleasant surprise. Who'd have thought a Twilight sequel had it in them?