10 Movies That Missed Out The Money Shot

4. The Wolf Fight - The Grey

On the surface, The Grey looked as though it was going to be a fairly conventional man vs beast creature film, with a group of survivors relentlessly pursued by a pack of man-eating wolves until a smaller group of them fought back, with Liam Neeson winning the day. In reality, it's far more of an exercise in philosophical musing and a harrowing experience that builds towards a crescendo that never actually arrives. Not fully anyway.

Neeson's casting was very much designed to foreshadow him being the ultimate survivor who would be taking the fight to the wolves. Hell, he even basically says that in the trailer, which ended with him fashioning a glass knuckle-duster while surrounded by wolves to make his last stand. It was the enduring image that the whole film was sold on.

And then, in the final film, that climactic fight between man and wolf simply didn't happen. We got to see him preparing by making his weapon, but then the movie cuts to the credits and all we see in the stinger is the sight of the combatants lying in the snow dying. Talk about an anti-climax.