10 Dumbest Movie Plot Twists Of 2020
4. Sully Is Augustine's Daughter - The Midnight Sky
George Clooney's new Netflix sci-fi drama The Midnight Sky is a visually stunning spectacle and gives Clooney the floor to deliver a terrific performance, so it's just a shame that the film wraps up with such an arch, predictable plot twist.
The finale actually serves up two twists for the price of one, first revealing that Iris (Caoilinn Springall), the young girl stranded on a dying Earth with Augustine (George Clooney), is nothing more than an hallucination of his own daughter, who he caught only a brief glimpse of when she was young.
This is followed up by a second reveal, that Sully (Felicity Jones), the pregnant astronaut Augustine is trying to dissuade from returning to Earth, is actually Iris herself.
Though Clooney and Jones certainly act the hell out of their final scenes, the twist is just too contrived and sentimental for its own good, ending the film on a rather sappy note which it didn't even begin to earn.