15 Awesome Films Since 2000 You'll Never Watch Again

Plot:

Stalked by hungry wolves, some men struggle to survive in the Alaskan wilderness after a plane crash.

Why It's Awesome:

Despite looking like a dumb action movie, it turned out to be a very philosophical and thought-provoking piece about survival and mortality.

Why You'll Never Watch It Again:

The Grey begins with Liam Neeson's protagonist, Ottway, attempting to shoot himself and doesn't get any more cheerful from there. The marketing promised us a bad-ass survival thriller about Liam Neeson fighting wolves and turned out to be a slow, downcast drama about the desire to live, the fear of death, isolation and trauma in which nearly everyone dies.

None of the men get back home to their lives and there is no real salvation for them; this all culminates in a heart-breaking scene of Ottway looking through their wallets to see what they had (or didn't have) waiting back at home for them. We also discover Ottway's wife has died (which is why he's suicidal); cheerful stuff this ain't.

As well as this, there's also the ending. The cliff-hanger ending was bold, but didn't quite work and is likely to leave you feeling incredibly frustrated. Much like with The Revenant, a frustrating ending such as this often makes a film harder to revisit.