10 Awful Plot Twists That Completely Ruined Great Movies

7. 3:10 To Yuma

The Movie

Rousing Western that sees one-legged family man Dan Evans (Christian Bale) transporting evil lothario criminal Ben Wade (Russell Crowe) to the titular 3:10 train to Yuma prison. On their trail is a campified Ben Foster as Wade's fellow gangsman Charlie Prince, who - along with a whole bunch of horrible gunslinging sods - finally surrounds Evans at Contention train station, leaving him trapped and Wade free to go back to murdering people for fun.

The Awful Twist

Evans' peg leg no longer causing him any concern during the final shootout would suffice here (director James Mangold simply gives up, deciding that making Bale walk with a limp doesn't really matter anymore, and instead lets him run like an Olympic sprinter and jump over rooftops like a superhuman). But there's worse to come.

After Prince drops Evans via a well-placed five bullets to the heart, Wade changes all his beliefs in a split-second, feeling so sorry for a man he's just met that he decides to shoot his entire crew to death. This includes his second-in-command Prince (with whom he frequently shares lover's glances throughout the film), whom he cold-bloodedly kills before boarding the prison train, for which the next stop is a likely death at the gallows.

WHAT? So Wade's spent the entire movie trying to get back to the company of his buck-toothed crew, now he's decided Death Row is really the way to go? Why was he such a pain in the ass up until this point, then, killing off Evans' fellow escorts with every opportunity he got? Ridiculous.