10 Sci-Fi Movies Ruined By Terrible Twists

There’s not a lot of love going spare for Repo Men, the 2010 Jude Law vehicle from one-and-done director Miguel Sapochnik (well, he’s got a “Tom Hanks builds himself a robot buddy after the apocalypse” flick coming out this year, but not too many people seem excited about that one either). Co-starring Forest Whitaker and I Am Legend’s Alice Braga, the flick attempted to bring back the grisly sci-fi satires of the eighties, owing a debt to both Alex Cox’s cyberpunk black comedy Repo Man and the work of Robocop helmer Paul Verhoeven during the era.

Maybe the flick simply didn’t have the same scalpel sharp wit as its predecessors. Maybe the thought of repo men ripping organs out of those unable to repay their transplant costs was simply too close to home for American viewers—have you seen the state of their healthcare system? Mostly though, the misjudged ending cost the flick any goodwill it had accumulated among audiences and made its failure almost inevitable.

The movie has a barnstorming action-packed final act, filled with brutal kills and tense chases, eventually ending with a happy conclusion for Law and his love interest.

Psych! None of that actually happened, and Law’s character has been in a coma since his mate knocked him out an hour into the flick, linked up to a neural network where he can live out a fantasy life as he remains unconscious.