10 Movies That Are Great Until The Last Few Minutes, According To Reddit
Regardless of how great the bulk of some movies are, it's hard to stick the landing. Whether it's the very last couple of minutes or the whole final act, some movies totally pull audiences out of what was a gripping and compelling story.
Reddit has some fascinating opinions on films that should have either ended earlier or have had a more cutthroat editor. Between a plot twist that makes no sense, an unearned happy ending, and unnecessarily setting up sequels, Redditors think came up with several great films that fell at the final hurdle.
Glass is the follow-up to 2000's Unbreakable, and it's a sequel that absolutely nobody was asking for. However, it ended up being hugely entertaining and expanded on a very interesting world. One Redditor notes that it's the only movie series M. Night Shyamalan has created, and while it's mostly fascinating, "it has the lamest twist of his entire career."
The whole idea of the series is that an unpredictable genius uses his intelligence to cause harm, thinking his purpose in life is to be a supervillain. However, the ending revealed that there's a secret cult that has a plan to wipe out every superhero in the world. However, the group randomly has its meetings in a ground-floor bar that any civilian could walk into.
The Cloverfield franchise is a fascinating movie series, as none of the movies follow on from one another, but are instead anthology films telling different stories in the same world. 10 Cloverfield Lane is the most engrossing, as it follows the original alien invasion movie but is an isolated and confined thriller.
The film is completely unrelated to the franchise until the final act of the movie, and The-Imperator_ thinks that it actually falls apart when it tries to connect to the larger Cloverfield world. The Redditor explains that the ending came "out of nowhere that I just sat watching in shock. Every time I’ve watched it since I’ve ended the film early and it’s perfect." However, Michelle driving off to seek other survivors in the very final shot is something that's worth exploring in the Cloverfield sequel.
Fifteen years later, it's still shocking that Martin Scorsese earned his first and only Academy Award over 30 years into his storied career, but it was deserved. The filmmaker won Best Director for The Departed, a cat-and-mouse crime thriller about an FBI mole and an undercover cop trying to uncover each other.
But one Redditor doesn't think the award was completely deserved, as the ending is totally illogical. They say that it's a "stretch to have us think Billy would have placed all of his faith in Brown, a guy he hasn’t seen since the academy."
Though The Matrix Resurrections was massively polarizing upon its release, NasinNelson is one of the few in the camp that loves it. However, the Redditor claims that it all fell apart in the last 30 minutes, "starting with Neo and Trinity escaping on the motorcycle."
The last half hour has a lot of great practical effects that would have been created digitally if it was any other movie, but the narrative becomes so convoluted, hard to follow, and outright nonsensical. But even though the final act tarnished the series' legacy, there are still ways the Matrix can continue with a fifth movie.
The Batman is a whole lot of movie, as it's almost three hours long, but that's because it does such a great job of world-building. And along with fleshing out the new, very rainy Gotham, it has a rather riveting detective story, but it's when that's wrapped up that this Redditor starts to lose interest.
The Redditor refers to one specific scene in the closing minutes of the movie that "falls flat for me and I wish they'd finished it about five minutes earlier." The scene is completely unnecessary and adds nothing to the narrative of the movie. The scene teases the Joker in Arkham Asylum, and though the asylum is one of the Gotham landmarks fans want to see in a sequel, this universe's Joker has left fans confused more than anything.
Ad Astra is one of the most spectacular-looking sci-fi movies of the past few years, and from the very beginning, the film is constantly building up to something big and leading audiences to expect a shocking ending. The story constantly talks about potential extraterrestrial life, the government keeping top secrets about the galaxy, and sees Roy McBride traveling to the end of the solar system to find his father.
The sci-fi film should have had one of the most epic and jaw-dropping finales ever. But instead, as Hardsteelrain puts it, "Ad Astra ended with a fizzle...." The movie ends with Roy simply concluding that there is no other intelligent life in the galaxy and attempting to reconnect with his wife.
Following one of the most remarkable and accomplished superhero movies in the 21st century, The Dark Knight Rises faced almost impossibly high expectations. There are a lot of plot holes when it comes to Batman's final plan to fly the bomb out of Gotham, as there's no way he managed to fly six miles in those few short final seconds.
However, one Redditor doesn't have a problem with the plot holes, but that they simply "hate the happy ending of The Dark Knight Rises." The movie ends with Alfred spotting Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle dining together at a cafe in Italy. While it's hard to imagine the two characters flying away together after having known each other for just a few short days, it perfectly wraps up Christopher Nolan's trilogy.
Sorry to Bother You is a surreal comedy about a group of call center employees who rebel against their employers and the billionaire owner of a business. It's a hilarious social commentary on capitalism and racism, but it doubles down on its surrealism in the movie's final act.
While Thesaddestcartoon loves most of Sorry to Bother You, "the last bit took me completely out of it. I understand it's a darkly comedic satire, but I just don't think it does it that well." The end of the movie reveals that the telemarketing owner's real agenda is to turn his employees into horse-human hybrid slaves known as Equisapiens.
Licorice Pizza is the latest romantic, '70s-based comedy-drama from Paul Thomas Anderson. It's what the director does best, and while it isn't Paul Thomas Anderson's highest-grossing movie, it's the most positive response an Anderson-directed film has gotten since 2007's There Will Be Blood.
And though JeffreyStar94 likes most of the movie, they have a very minor complaint, as they think it would have been better "if the last minute or so was cut. It kinda went too far in making sure the audience knew it was a happy ending." The director doesn't often do happy endings, but with Licorice Pizza and Phantom Thread before it, that's now two in a row.
Between The Matrix's incredible practical effects and thought-provoking narrative, it has a huge fanbase too. SpeedyS1oth is a part of that fanbase, but they're still irked by the very final sequence, which is when Neo starts flying like Superman.
While the movie was a landmark release for its effects, it still left a lot to be desired in some areas. The Redditor posits that Neo's take-off was improved in the sequels, as "he creates a ripple on the ground before he takes off, which is somehow much better."
Source: Screenrant
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