10 Great Sci-Fi Films Ruined By Terrible Endings

8. World War Z - The Quiet Lab

Brad Pitt ran his way through his first big blockbuster with this zombie-stacked epic. The speedy and ruthless incarnation of the classic brain-eaters forced audiences to watch in awe as their hordes pulled helicopters from the sky, swarmed cities in minutes and scaled hundred-foot walls. The globe-trotting adaptation of the Max Brook’s same-named novel kept the pace up and the action immense but slipped its foot off the pedal in its final act.

Switching out rampaging hordes in the streets of Jerusalem for a quiet lab in Wales, World War Z’s climax felt like a tame affair. With some W.H.O. scientists in tow, Pitt’s Gerry Lane sneaks his way through the “Zeke” infested hallways, hoping to prove that those with deadly-but-curable diseases will dissuade any snapping jaws from sinking their teeth into exposed flesh.

His predictions ringing true, the film ends with a montage of excitable examples of people across the globe fighting back against the dead army – all of which look more entertaining than the whole last half hour of the film. While the ending would have been at home in a smaller storied and budgeted film, the rumoured on-set issues, rewrites and reshoots seem to have morphed and muted the ending to an otherwise great zombie-filled actioner.