12 Dire Plot Twists From Recent Hollywood Films
8. Samuel L. Jackson's Idiotic Plan - Glass
No list like this would be complete without something from M. Night Shyamalan.
It's frustrating that Shyamalan is best known for his plot twists since they're usually the worst part of his movies and there's so much more to this gifted (although Incredibly inconsistent) director. Unfortunately, Shyamalan delivered another terrible ending twist in Glass, his OK but overall disappointing follow-up to Unbreakable and Split.
Glass sees superhero David Dunn/The Overseer (Bruce Willis) and super-villains Kevin Wendell Crumb/The Horde (James McAvoy) and Elijah Price/Mr Glass (Samuel L. Jackson) being locked in an asylum, where Elijah and Kevin soon team up to carry out a terrorist attack in the city.
David intercepts and battles them and in the following confrontation all three of them die. After that, the bombshell is dropped: Elijah had never planned to carry out the attack. He'd wanted to cause a battle between the three of them so he could live-stream it and then release the asylum's CCTV footage, exposing the existence of super-humans.
Wait, that's it?
This is a thoroughly dull twist and it was made even worse by the fact that Elijah's scheme was completely pointless; thanks to the events of Unbreakable and Split everyone already knew about super-humans, so this footage won't have changed anything. Those death scenes were pretty awful too, especially for David who gets... drowned in a puddle. Ridiculous.