10 Movies That Were Great Until Their Final Scene

2. The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King

New Line Cinema

The Film: The third chapter in Peter Jackson's The Lord Of The Rings saga, the Oscar-winning fantasy epic to end all fantasy epics, The Return Of The King is an appropriately bombastic, action-heavy trilogy-capper. Having journeyed from one end of Middle-Earth to the other, the group of heroes that the audience has come to love carry out their various missions, ridding the land of Sauron and his armies of darkness by ultimately destroying the One Ring.

Where It All Goes Wrong: It's not the one ending - it's the series of endings that's the problem. Almost as if Peter Jackson can't bear to say goodbye to the universe he's created, The Return Of The King's post-battle climax seems to go on forever, giving a breakdown of almost every character's fate after the Ring's destruction and then carrying on until it feels like you're watching a supercut of several movies ending at once.

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