10 Movies That Completely Wasted Awesome Twists

7. S.P.E.C.T.R.E. Was Behind Everything - Spectre

In 2013, MGM finally reacquired the rights to Bond villain organisation S.P.E.C.T.R.E. and wasted no time at all in using them, getting a new film out in less than two years.

Although what we got in Spectre was a modern take on the terrorism syndicate, with a base inside a serious crater instead of a silly volcano and a scheme that involved government manipulation rather than stealing rockets, the film still ensured key elements remained; S.P.E.C.T.R.E. had been a threat to Connery throughout his tenure, building in the background before its leader being revealed in film Number Five, so Sam Mendes and co. went for a similar approach. Of course, because this hadn't been seeded earlier due to the rights issues, this was framed as a twist, drawing in the Q.U.A.N.T.U.M. subplot and Silva to create this massive plot against Bond. Which is a very 007 thing to do.

The big mistake was making the fact that Christoph Waltz was playing Blofeld a closely guarded secret. The movie's entire production was mired in an endless "is he, isn't he, he definitely isn't but he obvious is" game that seemed to ignore finding out the Austrian leader of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. in Spectre was named after the Austrian leader of S.P.E.C.T.R.E. in the Connery films was obvious to fans and didn't matter to anyone else.

Giving Blofeld a past with Bond already made things like a petty vendetta, but putting so much focus on this one character reveal distracted from everything else to do with the organisation, reducing the meddling twist to a few hasty printed images.