23 Worst Movie Endings Since 2000

13. Cillian Murphy Was The Psychic The Whole Time - Red Lights

Red Lights follows academic and paranormal investigator Margaret Matheson (Sigourney Weaver) and her assistant Tom Buckley (Cillian Murphy), as Buckley attempts to debunk the work of apparent psychic Simon Silver (Robert De Niro) with whom Matheson, who advises against pursuing him, has had a previous run-in. Matheson dies unexpectedly half-way through the film, and so it is up to Buckley to figure out how Silver's increasingly impressive array of parlour tricks can be explained. The movie concludes with Buckley figuring out the method to Silver's stage acts, before the movie's mind-blowing twist occurs: Buckley reveals that he is actually the one with psychic powers and was responsible for the unexplainable events taking place throughout the film. It appears that Buckley chose to work with Matheson in an unconscious attempt to find other psychics like himself, even as he consciously continued to be skeptical of the paranormal. The final scene has Buckley turning off the life support machine of Matheson's son (who was explained to be in a vegetative state earlier in the film), essentially allowing the two to be reunited in the afterlife, which Buckley, being a psychic, has knowledge of. Why It Sucks: There's no doubting the ambition of Rodrigo Cortés screenplay, though revealing that Buckley had powers all along was a major tonal departure from everything that came before, and felt like a desperate attempt to shock the audience after the rather obvious fact that Silver was a fraud. It didn't help that the rather vague, flowery nature of the reveal just left a lot of audiences confused over what it all really meant.