10 Movies Saved By Their Final Shot

X-Men: The Last Stand may not be the worst of all the X-Men movies, but following the stellar first two, it was absolutely a massive letdown.

From director Brett Ratner playing fast and loose with the lore of the comics to its generally bungled execution of the Phoenix (Famke Janssen) storyline and mistreatment of numerous beloved characters, it was a hugely disappointing conclusion to the original X-Men trilogy.

But the final shot did at least resolve one of the most disheartening events in the film's climax, where Magneto (Ian McKellen) was injected with the mutant cure and seemingly permanently robbed of his powers.

Except, in the film's last scene, we see him sitting at a chessboard in San Francisco, and just as he raises his hand to a chess piece on his board, it ever-so-slightly moves, before Ratner abruptly cuts to the end credits.

For all the many creative mistakes this movie made, having the ending promise that Magneto will be back to his old self in no-time was quite the salve.

The fact that Ratner promptly ended the movie the second he'd made his point proved to be uncharacteristically shrewd filmmaking on his part.