10 Movies That Judged You At The End

The overwhelming majority of people primarily watch movies to be entertained. Sure, it's neat when a film offers up some tantalising food-for-thought, but the industry makes most of its billions from transporting audiences to another world and dazzling them with pure cinema magic.

But sometimes films don't merely want the audience to be a passive observer in the action - they want them to think long and hard about not only what they've just watched, but perhaps even themselves.

And that these 10 movies most certainly did, holding a mirror up to the audience, asking them to consider their own lives and, ultimately, straight-up judging the hell out of them.

Some of these films begged you to escape from your complacent rut, others wanted you to get a life and stop fawning over movies themselves, and others dared you to consider that maybe, just maybe, you might not be as good a person as you think.

In each case, these films penetrated the comfortable barrier between the audience and the art they were watching, ensuring viewers had plenty to think about as the end credits rolled...

The adaptation of hit comic book Wanted ends with office drone-turned-action hero Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) urging the audience to consider just how damn boring and ordinary their own lives are.

In the final scene, the villainous Mr. Sloan (Morgan Freeman) heads to Wesley's place of work to shoot him, only to realise he's pointing his gun at a decoy.

At that moment, Sloan is shot through the head by a high-caliber sniper round, but the footage suddenly reverses, the bullet stylistically returning to the gun as Wesley proudly proclaims that he's reclaiming his own life.

When the bullet finally returns to the rifle, Wesley turns to the camera and asks the audience, "What the f**k have you done lately?," before the movie cuts to black and the credits roll.

While on one hand you can certainly view that final question as a motivation boost - a provocation for viewers to finally do something with their lives - it's also calling them out for failing to realise their full potential.

If you came out of Wanted feeling personally attacked, nobody could blame you.