10 Recent Movies Let Down By Predictable Twists

9. Tom's Fate - Last Christmas

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Last Christmas centres around Grinch-like cynic called Kate who can't stand the holiday season. After encountering a mysterious man called Tom, her outlook on life changes for the better. As Kate begins falling for Tom, she worries he's too good to be true.

Sadly, he is. When she finds Tom's home, she learns he passed away one year ago. Not only that, the heart transplant which Kate received the previous year was from him.

Although Last Christmas is obviously trying to outdo The Sixth Sense with this epiphany, most viewers put two and two together after spotting the clues littered across the movie. In every scene, nobody interacts with Tom, save for Kate. He always wears the same clothes, and the pair keep exchanging cryptic dialogue like "I've been trying to find you" and "You keep disappearing." Instead of walking into a scene, Tom appears out of thin air.

Considering the trailer shows Kate getting the transplant, and the first line of the Last Christmas song is "I gave you my heart", the film is basically telling you that Tom's a ghost, which makes you wonder why it bothered with this twist in the first place.

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