1. Christoph Waltz Is Blofeld - Spectre
The Twist: The opening of Spectre's third act is bizarre. Bond is gives himself up to Christoph Waltz's villain Franz Oberhauser, who gives him a nice hotel room, shows him a rock, then ties him up in the most convoluted torture device since Jigsaw was around. Things only get more bonkers though, with Franz revealing that, following the death of Bond's parents, he and James became step-brothers and that after killing his father out of jealously he's renamed himself *pause for impact* Ernst Starvo Blofeld.
Why It's So Dumb: Wait, the German-accented head of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. who has been engineering all manner of nefarious global terror and has a penchant for menacing Bond is Blofeld? Boy, didn't see that coming. Oh wait, we all did. That Waltz was playing Blofeld was the worst kept secret since John Harrison, although that's only the tip of why the twist is so dumb. The random way in which it's set up relies on the audience knowing who Blofeld is, but does nothing to hide it and has it make no real bearing on the plot. The fact that it's all worked into this interesting-but-unnecessary notion that Oberhauser is Bond's step-brother
and killer of his surrogate father figure only makes it worse; the situation becomes so contrived that instead of being some epic, impactful title, Blofeld is just his mother's maiden name, the E.S. initials picked at random. Oooh, imposing. For more on Spectre's Blofeld twist, check out this rant
here.
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