These Movie Plot Twists SUCK!

If you've never seen Surveillance then it puts me in a rather weird position, as it's a film that I'd recommend but at the same time totally wouldn't. You see for about 99% of its runtime, this lo-fi indie whodunit hits with the raw energy that Hollywood often sanitized. The dialogue is snappy and off-kilter and the performances pulsate with this grittiness that feels uncomfortable and intriguing in equal measure.

However, the film's final reveal is so frustrating that it completely undoes everything you've sat through and may indeed cause you to choke on your own blood from the vicious body blow the film unfairly plants. You see despite Surveillance centering around a pair of FBI agents trying to solve a series of bizarre murders, and them going to pretty considerable lengths to interview the witnesses, it turns out that they committed the murders themselves!

This reeks of a film that didn't know how to end so pulled the cheapest card out of the deck, yet instead of a full house, this screams "PAIR OF TWOOOOO'S" all day long. What was the point of the film if this is the final twist? That the fake agents get their kicks from reliving the murder? That it's all part of the bigger topic of human Nihilism and that there is no point?

Well, that's what the movie wants you to think, that it's deeper than it actually is, but serving this twist only serves to make the film a one and done affair as there's literally nothing worth returning to for repeated visits, a cardinal sin of the movie industry if ever there was one.