10 Movies That Were Great Until Their Final Scene

5. Kill Bill Vol. 2

The Film: Part two of Quentin Tarantino's east-to-west revenge epic, Kill Bill Volume 2 is the movie in which wronged antihero The Bride (Uma Thurman) finishes off the last of head honcho Bill's (David Carradine) goons in her quest to finally reach the main man himself. At the end of the second part, which is chock-full of trademark QT dialogue and a major action set-piece set in a trailer, The Bride discovers her true identity, tracks down Bill, and faces off against him in one final duel.

Where It All Goes Wrong: The people on The Bride's hit list die like this: O-Ren Ishii has the top of her head sliced off, Vernita Green is beaten and has a knife thrown at her heart, Budd is deceived and bitten to death by a snake, Elle Driver is left blind and at the mercy of a black mamba, and Bill, the number one target in the whole film, is prodded to death. After four hours of waiting, there is no great battle, nothing that even tries to reach the heights of Volume 1's House of Blue Leaves sequence - The Bride simply uses a special technique and pokes Bill five times in the chest, giving him a heart attack. Talk about anti-climax.