![]() ![]() As moviegoers, we know that this care means that eventually one of them will screw it up. But they approach everything very logically and carefully, and we see how very determined they are not to screw everything up by seeing their past selves or doing too much to alter the world besides investing smartly in things they know do well the next day. Basically, two guys stumble into the creation of a time machine. Sometimes it works, and sometimes it feels like a cheap gimmick without enough rules to make the stakes very high. The expected: Time travel, one of cinema's favorite screwball attempts at blowing people's minds. That satisfaction and unexpectedness of this turn make it one of the most mind-bending of the 21st century. We remember the moments that didn't fit with our previous assumptions, and they fit with this new version of looking at the story. The satisfying thing about this ending (as opposed to other tries at twists, even others on this list) is that it adds up. One of the investigators is actually a patient, and the entire movie was a setup to try to get him to face his problems. We know the investigators are missing or overlooking something, and we're not sure what it is right away. These warnings put us on edge about the investigation. We get all of the jumps and confusing turns we expect from this style of movie, and there are a lot of clues that something is not what it seems, which occur in, let's face it, basically every suspenseful movie ever. The expected: We're at a familiar setting for a thriller movie - an asylum - where two gentleman are investigating a missing woman. Meaning the doctors think the man is safe, but really he's sadistic and psychotic. Until she's hit in the head with a shovel, revealing the forgotten, unassuming child. One person must be left, and at the end of the movie, it appears to be Paris ( Amanda Peet), one of the two characters we've been rooting for. This changes the entire plot of the movie, but it also raises the stakes. The first is that the characters aren't people at all, but representations of the different personalities of a single man, struggling to take control of him as doctors work to see if he's safe for release - if a 'safe' personality wins control of his mind. The unexpected: Identity has a double twist. Each character appears as a bit of a caricature, and as they seek to determine who is responsible for killing them off, one by one, they find strange similarities between themselves. ![]() Stranded at a hotel during a storm, the characters start to die off, and it's clear very early that the deaths aren't accidental. The expected: Identity is a whodunnit mystery with an ensemble cast. Need we provide a spoiler alert? SPOILERS ABOUND. ![]() We'll talk about the movie fits with normal genre conventions, and what makes the ending such a surprise. Night Shyamalan's infamous twist in The Sixth Sense, the grisly reveal at the end of Se7en, Hitchcock's unveiled villain in Psycho. the list could go on for a while.īut what about recent movies, of the 21st century? What are some of the best and least expected movie twists from the last sixteen years? This list discusses some of our picks for the greatest mind-blowing movie endings in recent history. Of course, not all mind-boggling movies earn that descriptor just in the ending, some carry the bizarre and unexpected through the entire film experience.Īll movies, regardless of genre, can spring something on the viewer at the last time. There's nothing like going to a movie that follows all usual conventions, with expected character arcs and familiar plot progressions, which are all upended by a surprising ending. ![]()
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