10 Movie Messages Completely Undermined By Their Ending
5. Hope & Teamwork Will Save The World - Tomorrowland
Brad Bird's Tomorrowland is consumed with the notion that hope and teamwork will build a better future for humanity, and the film's primary antagonist, David Nix (Hugh Laurie), is a man who has categorically lost all hope.
David wanted to inspire humanity to do better by using the tachyon machine to show them images of an impending apocalypse, but when people responded with indifference and basically accepted it, David also gave up and simply accepted the impending catastrophe.
The final clash sees the heroes, Frank (George Clooney) and Casey (Britt Robertson), attempting to destroy the tachyon machine while David tries to stop them.
But rather than merely subdue David, they end up killing him by pinning him underneath some rubble and destroying the machine, which crushes David to death.
This isn't to say that David was ever going to be fully redeemed, but when you meet a person who has been drained of all their hope, there's gotta be a better solution than brutally killing them. It's not much of a plea for hope and co-operation, is it?