10 Movies That Should Have Started 5 Minutes Later

Now, there isn't really much that can be done to turn 2010's aggressively mediocre sci-fi disaster film Skyline into a fine piece of cinema - though the two sequels are surprisingly decent - but chopping its opening scene sure wouldn't hurt.

Skyline commits the age-old cinematic sin of opening in medias res - that is, with a scene from later in the story that we'll return to later on - yet without ever justifying why.

The scene depicts the beginnings of the alien invasion, as Jarrod (Eric Balfour) and his pregnant wife Elaine (Scottie Thompson) are woken up by bright lights shining into their apartment, which begins to hypnotise Jarrod into a strange trance, while his body begins to react physically.

We're then flung back 15 hours earlier and the rest of the movie plays out chronologically, but the kicker is that we return to that opening scene barely 10 minutes later, basically confirming how pointless it was to open in medias res at all.

We don't really get any worthwhile new context for the scene the second time - beyond Jarrod being tackled to safety from the lights - and so one can presume the filmmakers just needed a way to get their movie to a possibly contractually obligated 90-minute runtime. Terrible.