10 Films That Should Have Ended Ten Minutes Earlier

8. The Matrix Reloaded

When most people talk about The Matrix Reloaded's ending, it's always in reference to the Architect's pseudo-science babble and Neo saving Trinity by putting his hand inside her and pulling a bullet out (what?), but for all the stupidity of it, at the very least it serves as a narrative end to the first in the disappointing sequel duology. The film may have none of the original's spark, but at least there was some effort to tell a coherent story.

Or there would have been, had Reloaded ended there, with Neo making the decision to do something instead of something else (seriously, what was that scene all about). Because what happens afterwards is infuriatingly ill thought out and hampered The Matrix Revolutions with too many dangling plot threads. Once out of the Matrix, the crew of the Nebuchadnezzar find themselves assaulted by robot sentinels. As they close in, Neo in a Jedi-style move, depowers them.

We've watched the rest of the series and still have no idea why that happened, beyond the Wachowski's wanting to really wow audiences. It didn't work guys. This is all topped off by the laziest, most unforeshadowed cliffhanger imaginable - Bane, the guy in one scene earlier who got taken over by Agent Smith - is on Morpheus' ship. Calling it anti-climactic doesn't do it justice.