13 Brilliant Plot Twists That Couldn't Quite Save Terrible Movies
1. Pandorum - Dennis Quaid Is Crazy And They Already Landed
The Twist: Payton (Dennis Quaid) spends the majority of the film listening to horrific tales of Gallo (Cam Gigandet) playing God on their arc-like spaceship. Terrifyingly, it’s revealed that Gallo is a hallucination of Payton’s younger self. After getting bored of torturing the ship's residents, Gallo went back into hypersleep and forgot everything he did, waking up decades later as Payton.
But before the once-again crazy Payton/Gallo could wreak further havoc, it turns out the ship had already completed its mission. They’ve been underwater for the entire film, having landed on their new planet over 900 years earlier.
Why It Almost Saved The Movie: Despite a nicely manic lead performance from Ben Foster, the entire film was cliched with science-fiction tropes on top of being not scary at all. It couldn’t tell if it wanted to be a science-fiction film or a horror film, and it failed to adequately do either.
Despite all that, the double-twist is so shocking that it almost redeems the whole thing.
Going back to watch the few survivors desperately try to restart the ship, knowing that they’ve unknowingly already completed their mission, almost makes the movie worth a re-watch.
What are your favourite twists from otherwise irredeemable movies? Did they do enough to save the whole thing? Let us know in the comments.