10 Terrible Plot Twists From Otherwise Awesome Movies

This is one of those twist endings that pretty much everyone will see coming.

In the excellent and underrated Phone Booth, Stu (Colin Farrell) is a sleazy publicist who's held hostage in a phone booth by a malevolent sniper (Kiefer Sutherland). If Stu hangs up, he'll be shot dead. Most of the film gets a hell of a lot out of this stripped-down premise, not least thanks to Colin Farrell's terrific performance, and it's all going well right up until the very end. 

Once Stu is finally saved, police find someone dead (having committed suicide to avoid capture, supposedly) next to the rifle, and Stu identifies him as a pizza delivery man he swore at earlier. So, this was the killer, right? Of course, it wasn't. 

The voice of this unfortunate man and that of the sniper were completely different, and given that this was released at the height of Kiefer Sutherland's fame on Fox's TV action classic 24, audiences would've been able to recognize Jack Bauer's distinctive voice immediately. Additionally, the cover story that the 'killer' committed suicide to avoid capture was hardly believable, as the real culprit had established himself as a fearsome psychopath who'd never give up that easily. 

And to top it all off, Sutherland was seen on several of the posters for the film, so really, this is one of the most pointless and ineffective plot twists of them all.