11 Film Endings That Didn't Solve Anything

6. Kick-Ass 2

The first Kick-Ass was exactly what the genre needed following Batman Begins, as the inevitable influx of 'serious' superhero films that would forgo self-awareness for the sake of some husky voices and moody posturing was begging for a reprieve. Here we had a realistic setting that would let Aaron Taylor-Johnson take on crime in the titular role, yet throughout he retained enough humour for his actions to be taken in a way that made the whole thing a huge cult success.

Flash-forward to part two though, and what was previously a pretty well tied-up tale had to delve back into its comic book origins to find more threads to pull. And pull they did, but not in a way that tied back up come the credit roll, instead we were left with something of a mess that may or may not be addressed in part three, should it ever happen.

There's a very good reason that when all was said and done, KA2 just felt completely phoned in, and in retrospect did anything really get solved or progressed? Sure antagonist The Motherf***er had a certain part of him forcibly removed, but as we zoom out away from Kick-Ass starting another training routine and watch Hit Girl speed away to another city, there was zero character progression outside of our heroes just doing more of the same.