10 Movies That Ended Way Too Early

10 Cloverfield Lane is a terrific movie albeit one which left viewers heavily divided over its ending.

Until its final 10 minutes, the film is a brilliantly claustrophobic thriller about a woman, Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), who wakes up in a bunker with a deranged survivalist, Howard (John Goodman), who believes a catastrophe has taken place above ground.

At the end, Michelle manages to escape Howard's compound, where it appears that his paranoia was incorrect and the world is still habitable.

But at that moment, a bio-mechanical alien spacecraft flies by, destroys the bunker and sends a grotesque creature after her.

The spacecraft then attempts to devour Michelle, though she uses a Molotov cocktail to defeat it, before heading off to Houston to help other survivors fend off the creatures.

Many complain that this sudden shift into monster movie territory feels tacked-on, as though it was transformed into a Cloverfield movie through reshoots in post-production.

Though this wasn't the case, the script originally had nothing to do with Cloverfield before it landed in the hands of J.J. Abrams, who had the script reworked to incorporate the Cloverfield mythology.

Ultimately it's an ending that doesn't fully satisfy anyone - it's too fleeting to please Cloverfield fans while feeling forced to everyone else. But it might've gone down smoother if the real third act started here, with Michelle arriving in Houston and helping repel the aliens.

Obviously keeping the budget low was a major concern, but those final 10 minutes really just felt like a trailer for a third act we never actually got.