10 Sci-Fi Movies Ruined By Terrible Twists

Poor much-maligned McG. The Charlie’s Angels director finally earned himself a modicum of love from genre film fans for his bonkers 2017 horror comedy The Babysitter. However, a decade before this project, his most expensive and ambitious flick, 2008’s Terminator Salvation, was hated by both audiences and critics, who complained it managed to be both too sanitized and too dark and gritty to fit the feel of the franchise.

The director did all he could to accommodate the demands of the fandom, a rookie mistake for which he paid dearly. When the original, deeply cool ending was leaked on the internet a year prior to the film’s release, fans were horrified to see that franchise hero John Connor would die, have his face transferred to half-droid Marcus in order to keep the Resistance in high spirits, and procced to slaughter the rest of the Resistance as Marcus was revealed as a double agent.

Paranoia? Terror? This isn’t what audiences want from a franchise about a robot assassin entitled “Terminator”!

Instead, we were served the limp theatrical ending, whose “twist” barely makes sense and was reviled by critics and fans alike. As John lies dying, Marcus offers his own heart and sacrifices himself to save John. The twist was a flopped attempt at sentimentality which pleased no one, as reflected in the reaction to the flick upon release.