15 Potentially Awesome Films Undermined By Their Terrible Endings

Despite its abysmal box office performance, The Rhythm Section is an engaging, well-acted yarn for much of its run-time and it has a great car chase set-piece too but, good lord, the ending SUCKS.

Three years after Stephanie (Blake Lively) lost her family in a plane crash, she discovers it was actually a terrorist attack and trains with Iain Boyd (Jude Law), a former MI6 operative, in order to get revenge. She also works with an ex-CIA agent turned information broker, Serra (Sterling K. Brown).

In the final act, after some suspenseful assassination set-pieces, the film completely loses its way. When Stephanie fails to kill a target, Boyd destroys his car, killing the target and his two children. Following this, Stephanie ditches Boyd and returns to Serra, who she randomly hooks up with. Despite having been the secondary lead for so long, Boyd now becomes inconsequential to the story in a thoroughly jarring manner, but it gets worse.

Not only is Stephanie's showdown with the bomber who attacked her plane very anticlimactic but the film drops a dire plot twist: Serra is the mastermind behind the bombing! This was a twist that was easy to predict, so it was difficult not to yell "Don't do it!" at the screen since it was also a completely stupid, unbelievable twist for a twist's sake. At no point does Serra ever seem like anything resembling a villain.

What a waste.