10 Most Ridiculously Unearned Movie Twists Of All Time

Ah Righteous Kill, a film so bad that for 100mins it cruelly tricks you into thinking that 50 Cent is a better actor than Robert De Niro (him again) and Al Pacino. In reality, he merely out acts the pair, as they bumble through a tired cop yarn, where the two chase after a serial killer, pull confused expressions and call each other 'partner' a curious amount of times.

It's actually not that curious come the film's grand twist, where screenwriter Russell Gewirtz hipfires an eye-rolling surprise, starting with a name change red herring, which starts by tricking us into thinking De Niro is the killer, before revealing Pacino's slightly more muddled cop to have been the killer all along. While you're trying to check that the pieces fit together and make sense, the credits are already rolling. In reality, before this happened, the film was clearly trying to foreshadow something and was sagging as a result of prepping its hand too hard, but no twist should be that dire. The twist didn't save this one, it killed it.