10 Movies That Almost Had Much Better Endings

1. Man On Fire

The Actual Ending

Tony Scott's dizzying 2004 action-thriller wraps up with strung out bodyguard Matt Creasy (Denzel Washington) surrendering himself in exchange for the life of his employer's nine-year-old daughter, Pita (Dakota Fanning).

In the final scene, Creasy dies from gunshot wounds sustained earlier in the film as he's being driven away by Pita's kidnappers, seemingly at peace, while the Big Bad known as The Voice (Roberto Sosa) is quickly shown being gunned down by agent Manzano (Giancarlo Giannini).

The One We Almost Got

Man on Fire's alternate ending is the stuff of legend: it has Creasy survive the climactic car ride to end up facing off against The Voice himself.

And after a brief chat, it's revealed that Creasy has concealed a literal butt-load of C4 up his own rectum, which he promptly detonates, killing himself, The Voice, and anyone else in the vicinity.

Though this ending was reportedly suggested by Washington himself, Scott apparently nixed it as he felt it didn't match the overall tone of the film.

Why It Would've Been Better

Given that Denzel literally kills a guy earlier in the movie by shoving a bunch of C4 up his ass, this would've been one of the all-time most insane callbacks in cinematic history, not to mention given Creasy an impossibly badass demise compared to just...expiring of previously sustained wounds.

Mercifully, the scene was at least made available on the film's DVD release, and it's a doozy alright.