10 Sci-Fi Movies Ruined By Terrible Twists

Maybe we should be able to spare a little love for Knowing helmer Alex Proyas. After all, this is the man who had to finish cult classic The Crow without any star when Brandon Lee tragically died in an onset accident, not to mention providing the inspiration for megahit The Matrix with his underseen and underrated next film Dark City.

But he’s also the director responsible for 2016’s laughable flop Gods of Egypt (remember that $140 million behemoth? Yeah, neither does anyone else), and the man who brought us Knowing’s closing scenes, so maybe not.

In this dark sci-fi thriller Nic Cage plays a professor unsettled by the discovery of a list of numbers scrawled by some sprog fifty years before the film begins. The kid was asked to draw “the future” and each of the numbers correlates to the date of a major catastrophe. This is, of course, helpfully proven by one of the dates being the day after Cage discovers the document, and indeed a convenient plane crash arrives to clarify the theory.

So what’s causing all this—premonition? Time travel?

Or aliens who’ve decided to spare a pair of human children from the upcoming apocalypse-via-solar-flare?

It's door number three, but Proyas’ film doesn’t stop there—the world actually ends, leaving Cage, his love interest, and everyone else on earth dead.

Fun twist, that.