10 Infuriating Movie Endings That Pissed Fans Off

Few things are as beautiful, confusing and audience-dividing as a Nicolas Winding Refn film, and 2013's Only God Forgives is no exception. With neon visuals, graphic violence and Ryan Reynolds, fans were expecting a strong follow-up to 2011's contemporary cult classic, Drive. What they got was an ethereal and disconnected piece of aesthetic film-making that cranked up the tension for an ending that simultaneously relieves the pressure in a big-stakes climax and provides nothing even close to a satisfying resolution.

Portraying itself as a revenge thriller on the surface, or at least in the trailers, Only God Forgives diverges greatly from the schadenfreude of it's initial setup. Instead, the film features a variety of increasingly confusing twists and turns in the seedy underbelly of Bangkok (mapped by often vague and interpretive exchanges of dialogue), seeing Gosling's Oedipal protagonist Julian reach a grim, potentially hand-less fate by the film's conclusion.

The film's critical reception was mixed at best, with some audience members booing it at Cannes, and it's not hard to see why. Criticised for favouring style over substance, fans generally panned it, dissatisfied by the lack of a coherent ending, where the film descends into a disjointed sequence of grim violence, dynamic visuals and triple-coded metaphors that would give Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy a run for its money