10 Exact Moments Recent Movies Lost Us
3. Alma Is A Serial Killer - Allelujah
The recently released drama film Allelujah - based on 'Alan Bennett's 2018 play - was marketed as a feel-good love-letter to the UK's National Health Service, centered around a geriatric ward in Yorkshire which faces closure due to government funding cuts.
Yet despite releasing shortly before the NHS' 75th birthday, the film takes a jaw-droppingly dark turn at the very end when it's revealed that head nurse Sister Alma Gilpin (Jennifer Saunders) is actually a serial killer who has been poisoning her most frail patients with morphine.
Alma is then arrested and jailed for life, though argues that her act was a "blessing," allowing beds to be freed up for other patients.
Needless to say, the discourse surrounding the film was almost entirely concerned with the wildly out-of-nowhere twist, with many feeling that its attempt to fly the flag for the NHS was wholly undermined by having the central character be a murderous nurse.
The intent may have been noble, but the execution - pardon the pun - didn't work at all.