8 "Great" Movies You Actually Only Remember For The Plot Twist
7. What Lies Beneath (2002)
What People Remember About The Movie: "That's the one where Harrison Ford is the bad guy, right? He's married to Michelle Pfeiffer! The plot? Uh, gimme a minute."
If What Lies Beneath lacked its famous twist, in which the typical nice guy character played by Harrison Ford, Dr. Norman Spencer, turns out to be a murderer, chances are that nobody would remember this film even existed. That's kind of surprising, given that it was helmed by Robert Zemeckis, who has given us some of the most entertaining flicks of the past few decades.
What Lies Beneath has a reputation for being a good, efficient thriller, which in retrospect feels entirely unearned: save for the twist, nothing about Zemeckis' film sticks with you in the aftermath. What's the story? What was Norman's motive?Chances are that, if you haven't seen this one in years, you're struggling to recall literally a single detail about the plot.
Zemeckis tried for a Hitchcockian thriller, but ultimately he came up short; Hitchcock knew that there needed to be more than a twist to make a movie - you needed memorable moments along the way. What Lies Beneath could and should have been more than the sum of its twist, instead of merely serviceable.