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2. Madison & Gary Kill Jasper - Hit Man
Richard Linklater's terrifically entertaining black comedy Hit Man ended in a much darker manner than just about anyone expected.
In the finale, undercover cop Jasper (Austin Amelio) tries to blackmail Madison (Adria Arjona) for the life insurance money of her abusive husband she killed, but in the first bleak turn, Jasper suddenly passes out, having been drugged by Madison.
Just as we wonder how Madison's lover Gary (Gary (Glen Powell) - who poses as an assassin for the cops but has never actually murdered anyone - will react, he grabs a plastic bag and finishes the job, suffocating Jasper to death and making it look like a suicide.
From here, Gary and Madison start getting amorous as Jasper expires, before we shift forward a number of years to the pair living a happy life with a couple of kids.
Given the crowd-pleasing nature of Linklater's movie up to this point, it was genuinely unexpected to see it arrive at such a caustic and dark ending, where Gary has fully assumed the hitman persona into his real personality, all while he and Madison totally get away with killing a cop.