10 Movies Utterly Ruined By Their Final Revelations

6. Savages

Oliver Stone's Mexican drug cartel thriller Savages was never going to win him the kind of praise he's received for some of his more outstanding works - compared to the heavyweight anti-war horrors of Platoon or the probing analysis of the Presidential assassination in JFK, Savages is a considerably closer to mainstream fare, more throwaway entertainment than challenger of Hollywood conventions. It's in pandering to Hollywood conventions that Savages really falls apart, and in spectacular fashion. Pot dealers Ben and Chon and their mutual love interest O find themselves embroiled in a Mexican drug cartel and call in DEA Agent Dennis to help them out after the cartel kidnaps O, culminating in a meeting point in the wilderness in which Ben is shot and the other two kill themselves with a fatal overdose on the spot, rather than break up their threesome. The next reveal - that this was nothing more than O's fantasy, and that everything actually worked out alright for all of them - is so misjudged and absurd that you can only assume that the studio forced Stone to tack it on That said, a director of his clout surely could have insisted on the downbeat ending we'd just seen - after all, this is how the story ends in the novel on which Savages is based.