12 More Movie Endings That Trolled Audiences

A misguided Haley Joel Osment vehicle from the years following the enfant terrible’s blockbuster debut The Sixth Sense, Pay It Forward was a mawkish and overly sentimental inspirational drama wherein a precocious kid played by the former child star begins a national trend of do-goodery which soon takes the world by storm.

It’s all very touching, culminating in a scene where our naïve young hero intervenes in some bullying to save the day—and is promptly and unceremoniously stabbed to death apropos of nothing.

So… Don’t pay a good deed forward?

What on earth was the message of this film, beyond the storytelling equivalent of a Rick roll?