10 Movies With Annoyingly Abrupt Endings

5. The Unfinished Fight - The 36th Chamber Of Shaolin

Often regarded as one of the greatest martial arts films ever made (and one of Quentin Tarantino's biggest inspirations for his Kill Bill movies), The 36th Chamber of Shaolin chronicles the adventures of a young man named San Te (Gordon Liu) who flees to a Shaolin Monastery after his family are murdered in order to learn kung-fu.

The film is essentially made up of dozens of training sequences (the titular "chambers"), which consist of dangerous or complex tasks that one must complete in order to move onto the next. After spending five years completing the chambers, San Te becomes the best student ever and so seeks revenge on the guy who killed his dad.

Up to this point, the film is pretty much flawlessly paced... that is, until the final battle, which sees San Te taking on the Manchu Governor responsible for ruining his life.

Their battle is initially thrilling, but it doesn't have an ending: there's a brief shot of San Te head-butting the Governor, which randomly freeze frames. The film cuts back to the Shaolin Temple, where San Te is training new recruits and then it abruptly ends. What happened with the fight, though? Were we just supposed to assume the outcome?