12 Recent Films That Fell Apart In The Final Act

The Blackening was a solid and fun horror comedy for most of its run-time, featuring a gifted cast and some genuinely great dialogue and social commentary... before the film shot itself in the foot at the end.

Similarly to the aforementioned See How They Run, this is a mystery that failed to come up with a satisfying solution. Viewers will likely guess that Clifton (Jermaine Fowler) is the villain long before the big reveal. He dies off-screen, which is the biggest giveaway of a fake-out death, and he emphasizes the fact that he owns an Android phone.

As Rian Johnson has pointed out, Apple doesn't allow movies to feature antagonistic characters using their phones and when Clifton reveals he's seemingly the only character who doesn't use an iPhone, those who are aware of this trope will have called it very early on.

Even if one can forgive the obvious nature of the twist Clifton is also a laughably bad villain with very silly motivations, Fowler's performance is jarringly weak and the final act generally feels like a low-stakes damp squib in which none of the other main characters actually die.