12 Most Hated Blockbuster Movie Endings

Prequels have gone so badly wrong so many times, it's sometimes hard to believe Hollywood still considers them a viable option. 2009's X-Men Origins: Wolverine had been intended as the first in a series of origin movies for the Marvel mutant series, but its disastrous reception happily prompted a major rethink.

Director Gavin Hood's film had been intended to finally answer all those burning questions which the first three X-Men films had posed about Hugh Jackman's indestructible anti-hero; but, as tends to be the case, the answers we were given proved less than satisfactory.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine is of course most notorious now for Wolverine's battle with Ryan Reynolds' Deadpool, or rather the bizarre, semi-naked, mouthless oddity the film turned him into, despite it bearing no resemblance to the comic book character which cinemagoers now know so well.

Perhaps even more wince-inducing than that, however, was the explanation for future Wolverine having completely forgotten the events of the prequel: he gets shot with an amnesia bullet, one of the most ridiculously lazy plot devices ever put to film.

There might be a market for such instant amnesia devices, though. Certainly more than a few disgruntled X-Men fans would probably have volunteered to be shot with the same thing immediately after the film ended.