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counting down our picks for the top 10
action movies ruined by terrible endings
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looking at films that fail to stick the
landing
most of these movies are actually pretty
good but they’re unsatisfying climax
brings them down a notch it should go
without saying but spoilers will be
everywhere number 10 x-men The Last
Stand
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when it’s the final film in a trilogy
you really want a satisfying ending
x-men The Last Stand focused on a cure
for mutants which was the logical next
step after Bryan Singer’s x2 while the
film delivered on the action front the
movie is bogged down by way too many
underdeveloped characters and a few
insulting narrative choices making the
whole thing one big bad ending from
Cyclops to Professor X our beloved x-men
are sorely miss handled but it’s the
climax that solidified the film as a
disappointment because the Phoenix
storyline is so poorly told it’s
emotional climax
sadly feels forced number 9 The Dark
Knight Rises
we both know the daf-2 kill your now
calm your horses Christopher Nolan’s
final chapter in the Dark Knight trilogy
is a good action film but it could have
been great for the first two hours
Batman meets his match in the powerful
and intelligent Bane who wants to
complete Ra’s al Ghul’s mission the
chaotic final act turns everything on
its head revealing that Miranda Tate is
the real villain and Ra’s al Ghul’s
daughter vein is unceremoniously
defeated by Catwoman meaning Batman
never really gets closure for his
previous defeat and Tate simply isn’t a
very interesting antagonist he’s gone to
China on
I am number eight Superman really this
is the best ending they could come up
with Richard Donner’s Superman is a
classic and among the best superhero
films of all time but that’s all despite
this nonsensical ending for once
Lex Luthor’s devious plans actually work
resulting in the death of Clark’s main
squeeze Lois Lane furious and
heartbroken Superman takes to the skies
and Rockets around the world a few times
since he was going against the Earth’s
rotation this somehow reverses time
allowing Lois Lane to be saved sure
Superman is practically a god but come
on time travel I don’t bother I think
it’s dead
number 7 law abiding citizen Nick I
wasn’t expecting company there’s a fine
line between dumb fun and just plain
dumb angered by his wife and daughters
killers getting a reduced sentence due
to the prosecutor not wanting to stain
his impressive record
Clyde sets out on a convoluted plan to
destroy the justice system after getting
revenge he lands in prison but seems to
be orchestrating several murders from
his cell the big mystery centers on how
Clyde is doing this with the logical
conclusion being that he has an
accomplice instead we learned that Clyde
dug a tunnel underneath the prison and
was doing everything himself yes not
exactly a great or satisfying reveal
it’s a decision you have to live it for
the rest of your life
which i think about now is about 25 more
seconds number 6 the Book of Eli in the
beginning God created the heavens a
twist can make or break a movie case in
point M night Shyamalan s career The
Book of Eli was nearly a return to form
for the Hughes brothers but the climax
severely derailed it Denzel Washington’s
purpose in life is to protect the last
Bible from the sinister Gary Oldman who
wants to use the word of God to
manipulate people
Eli kicks tons of ass and looks awesome
while doing it but before the twist
reveals that he’s blind and the Bible is
written in Braille this not only makes
the book practically worthless but Eli
goes from a normal badass to an
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I can be light number five
War of the Worlds hey if it’s good
enough for HG Wells and Orson Welles no
relation it’s good enough for Steven
Spielberg and Tom Cruise 2005’s War of
the Worlds plays out as a slightly more
realistic version of Mars Attacks
until the climax when it delivers a
twist ending worthy of parody
earth has invaded by an advanced species
that totally dominates our defensive
forces prompting crews in the rest of
humanity to do a lot of running away
from lasers and tripods just when all
hope seems gone
the aliens start to drop like flies due
to microbes in the Earth’s atmosphere
victory never felt so undeserved number
four Lucy I built a computer and
download all my knowledge in it I’ll
find a way for you to have access to it
love him or hate him luc besson never
does anything half-assed scarlett
johansson’s lucy is forced to act as a
drug mule
before accidentally ingesting enough
chemicals to unlock her brain’s full
potential naturally Lucy’s first course
of action is to deliver sweet vengeance
upon the dealers who used her but she
eventually gains unlimited knowledge and
escapes her physical body how did you
manage to access all this information
electrical impulses that’s already a bit
much but the real breaking point comes
when Lucy hands over all her knowledge
to Morgan Freeman via a USB flash drive
sure it’s likely some sort of super
advanced flash drive but the storage
medium still seems sorely inadequate for
carrying all the knowledge in the world
number three savages who really trust in
whom I have no idea
credit to Oliver Stone he found a way to
piss off fans of the book and movie
goers who never even read it
based on Don Winslow’s pulp novel
savages follows three unlikable upstarts
who run their own marijuana business
they get entangled with the cartel
resulting in an abduction and a huge
burst of violence to end the movie the
three leads are far from good people so
they should not receive a hero’s ending
at first stone copies the books ending
where almost everybody dies before
changing his mind and revealing that it
was only a dream in this version
everyone lives happily ever after
except the audience we live like savages
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beautiful number two I am Legend I think
this is why you’re here
Richard Matheson’s book I am Legend
inspired many horror flicks including
the Omega Man and the last man on earth
Francis Lawrence’s adaptation is pretty
darn close to perfect including a
fantastic climax that captures the
philosophical spirit of the original
novel due to a man-made virus Will
Smith’s Richard Neville believes he is
the last human alive and sees the
zombies as mere monsters in order to
find a cure
Richard kidnaps and experiments on a few
of them but realizes that maybe he is
the real monster
great right unfortunately they did not
use that ending instead we got an
number one the Matrix Revolutions a
terrible ending to a trilogy and movie
after some thrilling action sequences
the climax sees neo face off against
Smith in a Dragon Ball Z style fight and
the former realizes that the only way to
win is to lose neo allows Smith to clone
him and the machines destroy them both
their mutual destruction leads to a
truce between the machines and humans so
peace wins out in the end the matrix
then resets with the Oracle predicting
the arrival of the seventh one leaving
us with a whole bunch of questions the
biggest one being what was the point did
you always know I didn’t believe do you
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