10 Movies That Were Great Until Their Final Scene

4. Fury

The Film: Fury is a grim war-as-horror film, in which a tank crew led by Brad Pitt's cynical Wardaddy must navigate through German territory at the tail-end of WWII, with Hitler's declaration of Total War seeing every man, woman and child in the country become a potential threat to invading Allied troops. David Ayer's film is unsparingly brutal, right up until its last scenes, when the crew of the Fury face down an elite unit of German soldiers alone, in a hellish standoff full of fire and blood.

Where It All Goes Wrong: With every member of the crew dead except for Wardaddy and Logan Lerman's Norman, and with enemy troops approaching the tank to finish off whoever's been decimating their comrades, it doesn't look good for the last two survivors. Then Wardaddy reveals there's a secret hatch underneath the tank that you never knew about - just as a German grenade is thrown into the Fury to finish Wardaddy off, Norman escapes. When Norman's discovered below the vehicle by an enemy soldier, the soldier simply keeps quiet and lets Norman off. It feels like a Hollywoodised ending to a perfectly nasty film.