12 Greatest Red Herring Movie Endings

3. Luke Does Nothing - Star Wars: The Force Awakens

There's pleasantly subverting fans' expectations and then there's straight-up trolling them, and in the case of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, J.J. Abrams most certainly did the latter with a brilliant audacity.

Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) was kept almost entirely out of the movie's marketing, with most fans assuming that this was simply to preserve the surprise of his appearance, probably with a lightsaber in hand no less.

Well, a surprise fans certainly got, though not quite the one most were hoping for. Luke only appears in the final minute of the movie and does nothing more than turn around, lower his hood and stare intently at Rey (Daisy Ridley).

When Rey encountered Luke, fans surely expected a lengthy chit-chat between the two in the very least, setting up The Last Jedi, but nope. The movie just...ends, forcing audiences to wait another two years to see or hear Luke actually do, well, anything.

Fans were justifiably annoyed, but at the same time, it was a pretty genius marketing move on the part of Disney.