10 Movies Which Refused To Give Fans What They Came For

Earlier on I said we should expect the unexpected with films, and if you're a fan of Christopher Nolan's work that statement might as well be one of the Ten Commandments.

From the mind-blowing trailers, and the director's die-hard use of practical effects, fans of Nolan were expecting expertly choreographed sequences that showed the mixing of reverse time flow (Inversion) played out in broad action set pieces.

Sadly though, the end result showed Inversion sequences few and far between. With the exception of an entertaining fistfight, most of the reverse time-flow comes at the behest of unremarkable shootouts and sprinkles of muted movement. Midway through the film, The Protagonist goes through a time-reverse stile and becomes Inverted. It's exciting and fans must have thought "Finally!" as The Protagonist attempts to navigate a world in reverse to himself. But the sequence is over before it even begins, and audiences are quickly brought back to normality.

The end war sequence is an elaborate battle between two armies flowing in opposite lineal directions, but it's so overblown audiences aren't given any navigation as to what's happening. Instead, one army moonwalks out the battlefield, while another simultaneously jogs in to finish the job, and audiences in the cinema are left wondering if this is really what they got all excited about.