10 Worst Plot Twists In Recent Movies

The recent Netflix sci-fi thriller Awake is a monument to failed promise, totally fumbling its intriguing concept, whereby a global catastrophe wipes out all electronics as well as people's ability to sleep.

It isn't long before human civilisation begins to break down, with the very real possibility of humankind being rendered extinct through sleep deprivation.

However, there's hope that protagonist Jill's (Gina Rodriguez) daughter Matilda (Ariana Greenblatt) - who is for some reason able to sleep just fine - might represent the key to saving everyone.

At the end of the film, Jill's son Noah (Lucius Hoyos) also finds himself able to sleep after being fatally electrocuted and resuscitated, and because Matilda drowned and was revived at the very start of the film, the curing method becomes clear: dying (temporarily) and being brought back.

And so, Awake concludes with Matilda and Noah drowning their mother and then resuscitating her, seemingly curing her and providing a solution for all of humanity to save themselves.

Again the idea isn't inherently awful, but the execution is so clunky and reliant on contrivances - namely both of Jill's children implausibly dying and coming back - that you're more likely to be left groaning at the "cleverness" of it.