10 Recent Movie Plot Twists Nobody Saw Coming

There's no denying the impact that a shocking plot twist can have on a movie. 

At its very best, a twist can force the audience to entirely rethink what they've just seen and rewards those who decide to rewatch the film, while at their worst twists can come off clunky and contrived, even suggesting the filmmakers tried a little too hard to get one over on audiences.

And in recent times, no movies have bamboozled audiences - for better or worse - quite like this lot, each of which served up jolting surprises that just about nobody could've possibly seen coming.

These twists range from expectation-defying cameos to stunning left-field endings, hidden villains, shocking death scenes, and just about everything else in-between.

Some were incredible surprises, others were more polarising, and one was flat-out loathed by the majority of the fandom, but these twists all have one thing in common - they caught us all totally off-guard.

In an era where audiences seem tougher than over to fool, these films pulled it off one way or another, whether they were playing fair or not...

Let's give a big hand to Ryan Reynolds and director Shawn Levy for pulling quite the brilliant fast one on audiences in Deadpool and Wolverine, because even once Chris Evans showed his face, audiences still didn't know quite what they were in for.

Evans shows up as an unnamed character in The Void who runs into Deadpool (Reynolds) and Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), with the audience clearly supposed to believe Evans is playing a foul-mouthed Captain America variant, because why wouldn't he?

But moments later comes the rub - when confronting Pyro (Aaron Stanford), Evans' character screams "Flame on!", revealing him to instead be Johnny Storm aka The Human Torch from Fox's 2000s Fantastic Four movies.

We should've seen such a cheeky misdirect coming really, and yet, it fooled just about everyone in the best way possible. 

And because that wasn't wild enough, we later got to see Johnny brutally killed when Cassandra Nova (Emma Corrin) tore his skin from his body.