9 Seriously Smart Movies That Trick You By Having Two Twists

The Movie: Before Fury Road blew everyone away, The Road Warrior was the Mad Max film; intense, pacy action against a desolate landscape covered in orange dirt, it's like George Miller's first draft for last year's shock hit. Perhaps the biggest parallel between the two is the fact that despite being the title character, Max isn't really the point of the story. Instead, he's a silent nomad who simply finds himself in the middle of a bigger plot, something the film flaunts more and more as it goes on.

The First Twist: At the end, Max plans to help an oil refinery community escape a siege by using their wares as a distraction. He succeeds, but when assessing the wreckage of the oil truck (because obviously it would be totalled) he discovers he's been played; the tanker was filled with sand, with the community taking all the oil as well.

The Second Twist: Max's lack of real importance to the story is only made more oblique when the voice-over from the start returns and is revealed to not be Max or some unknown wastelander, but that of the feral child (who grows up to become the clan's leader and never saw Max again, so definitely isn't in Fury Road), repositioning the story as being that of the clan, not our Road Warrior.