12 Recent Films That Fell Apart In The Final Act

This is a unique case, because Escape Room: Tournament of Champions has two versions that have very different final acts.

The more widely seen ending, that of the theatrical version, is godawful. It doesn't just ruin this film, it retroactively ruins the first film too.

Aside from this version of the final act generally being an infuriating anticlimax, it also fatally kills the stakes by revealing that Amanda (Deborah Ann Woll) from the first film is still alive.

It turns out that, during the game where Amanda apparently died, the contestants were never in any danger - there was a hidden mattress below. As if retroactively ruining the first film's best set-piece wasn't bad enough, Amanda literally says "if you didn't see it, it didn't happen" just before it turns out that Ben (Logan Miller) survived his apparent death in an earlier trap.

Well, that's goodbye to any semblance of tension, then. And the film's cliffhanger ending - in which it turns out that the film's villains have somehow turned an entire plane into an escape room - was just stupid.

The ending of the extended version, on the other hand, is far better. It's suspenseful, it moves the story along in an interesting way and best of all, it keeps the stakes intact. Amanda is allowed to stay dead, and this version also features a memorable appearance from Orphan's Isabelle Fuhrmann as a mysterious new character.

Why oh why didn't they use that ending for cinemas instead?