10 Most Shamefully Lazy Plot Resolutions In Movie History

7. Zombies Make Healthy Diet Choices - World War Z (2013)

Paramount Pictures found out the hard way that bringing a book to the big screen can be a headache when the studio tried to adapt Max Brook's work of popular zombie fiction World War Z. Brook's novel chronicled a global war between humanity and legions of zombies through a series of interviews conducted years after the conflict ended. The movie adaptation tried to streamline the novel's plot by focusing on a single protagonist, survivalist Gerry Lane, and his attempts to find a cure for the zombie plague.

The film underwent a series of rewrites and reshoots because the original cut lacked a satisfying ending. Screenwriter Damon Lindelof was brought onboard to turn the hot mess of a conclusion into something palatable for general audiences. Unfortunately, the way he chose to resolve the plot comes across as extremely half-baked.

After trotting the globe and gathering clues on how to stop the zombie threat, Lane believes he'€™s found the answer: the zombies don'€™t attack terminally ill humans because they would be unsuitable hosts for the zombie virus. Lane visits a medical facility where he injects himself with a pathogen that effectively makes him invisible to zombies. The good news spreads and humanity turns the tide on the undead.

This nonsensical ending leaves the audience with a whole host of unanswered questions like: why did no one notice that the zombies ignore the terminally ill? Wouldn€™'t there be entire hospital wings left untouched by the zombie apocalypse? Why would a virus that turned people into undead flesh eaters consider the soon to be dead unsuitable hosts? Despite the valiant efforts of Mr. Lindelof, the half-baked plot resolution he came up failed to provide a satisfying ending for such a large-scale story.