12 Great Action Movies Ruined By Terrible Endings

Hong Kong action hero and occasional Hollywood director John Woo had some well-documented trouble with transferring his unique, overblown style to US filmmaking.

While many of the legendary director’s American efforts are undeniably impressive spectacles like 1999’s cheesy but nonetheless amazing Face Off, none of them recapture the lightning in a bottle intensity of the director’s best work such as 1990’s unparalleled Hard Boiled, an action thriller which can lay claim to being amongst the genre’s most impressive artistic achievements.

Just look at 2000’s Mission Impossible 2—initially some over-the-top cheesy fun, the flick stalls in its closing act as a series of unrealistic stunts and incomprehensible twists conspire to leave the audience unable to suspend disbelief and render the denouement as much laughable as it is gasp-inducing.