10 More Awesome Plot Twists That Totally Saved Terrible Movies
7. Remy Is Actually In A Coma - Repo Men
Sci-fi action flick Repo Men is a mostly forgettable feature debut for future Emmy-winning Game of Thrones director Miguel Sapochnik, but at least offers up one of the few worthwhile variations on a massively overused type of plot twist.
Remy (Jude Law) and partner Jake (Forest Whitaker) are two of the titular repo men, whose work involves reclaiming replacement organs from clients who default on their payments, in turn killing them.
It's a neat premise that's nevertheless filtered through the prism of a generic, largely unimaginative sci-fi flick that, save for its wild twist ending, is most easily forgotten.
Yet the film does strike gold late in the day, when Remy has an expected change of heart and seemingly conquers the organ debt trade he was himself a part of, ending up on a tropical beach as a reward for his efforts.
But the big twist reveals that, when Remy and Jake got into a fight earlier in the movie and Remy was knocked unconscious, he received traumatic brain damage and is now in a coma.
Remy's beach getaway is actually a dream world his brain was hooked up to by a guilt-riddled Jake, allowing him to live out his life in seemingly able-minded bliss inside this virtual construct.
Considering how difficult it is to pull off twists like this without it seeming completely hackneyed and lazy, it's truly impressive that it works so well, in large part because it's informed by the relationship between the two central characters.
As for the rest of the movie, beyond its flecks of gnarly gore it barely registers a pulse.