10 Recent Movies Ruined By Terrible Endings

The Mill is one of the most intriguingly premised movies of the year, in which Joe (Lil Rel Howery) wakes up in a prison-like cell with no memory of how he got there.

With seemingly no means of escape, Joe is tasked with pushing a mill and meeting a daily quota for fear of a dire punishment. This makes for a rivetingly mysterious horror film for the most part, but it all comes tumbling down when the movie finally has to wrap things up.

At the end, Joe eventually wakes up inside an office, where it's revealed that the mill was actually a virtual reality experience intended to improve employee productivity.

For his efforts in VR, Joe is given a promotion at the company, and though the film's final moments suggest that an irate Joe is going to burn the company down - either literally or figuratively - the abrupt ending ensures we never actually get to see it happen.

Though the VR twist isn't quite "it was all a dream!" levels of bad, it's not far off, and that the movie then denies us the cathartic joy of seeing Joe lay waste to his daily place of torment is infuriatingly disappointing. This is definitely one of those movies where the filmmakers would've been better off keeping the explanation as vague as possible - if even bothering with one at all.