11 Movie Twists That Don't Make Any Frickin' Sense

spread in pic logic can be overleap if the thrills , you experience , thrill . A character turns out to be a pure contradiction ; a central part of information pops up without explanation ; the narrator , our trusted guidebook , was treacherous all along . Entire movies have been broken in one-half in parliamentary law to put down a ponderous plot twist . The strategy can be glorious –Soylent Green is … made out of people!!– or completely lack the stain , invalidating every comme il faut scene that preceded it . These are examples of the latter , the most frustrating storytelling Sin in recent years :

Planet of the Apes(2001)

In Tim Burton ’s reboot , an cosmonaut ( Mark Wahlberg ) stick to an imperiled chimpanzee carbon monoxide - worker forward through meter via wormhole to a unusual planet . But alternatively of usingthe original ’s twist– the ape planet is really future Earth ! – the space station Wahlberg had initially launched his pod from also crashed , only it did so thousands of years in the past thanks to relativity . That would have been all well and dear had Wahlberg not decided to set his path back to present - solar day Earth … where he discovers that the Lincoln Memorial is now a monument to Ashlar ’s General Thade ( Tim Roth ) and that all the police who ride up to investigate the crash are apes !

For this twist to make sense , Thade would have needed to formulate prison term travel , go back to America in the 1850s , and … hope that future ape Americans replicated Earth ’s chronicle on the nose ? And why would simians habituate the same cars as homo ? aper ramification are so much brusk !

Signs(2002)

After writing and directing 1999 ’s breakout hitThe Sixth Sense , M. Night Shyamalan gained the public repute of a director that could , and would , melt our minds with plot twists . But whileThe Sixth Sense ’s jaw - eye dropper brand for a rewarding rewatch andUnbreakable ’s nefarious reveal was satisfying , the hydrophobic aliens ofSignsare a puzzling misfire in comparison .

In a moving picture where Mel Gibson wrestles with his faith while the world is threatened with alien invasion , those aliens have one weakness : water . Anyone who has hear our big patrician marble from space can tell this planet is 80 % pee . I guess the invading force think they could take over the other 20 % , some of it bless with mod plumbing system , while stay dry and roaming on pes . A species that developed interplanetary travelling should not be that dumb .

Saw(2004)

Playing on the nerves of an consultation who just watched Cary Elwes commit ego - harm , the firstSaw ’s finale rapidly recaps the old 80 hour in flashbacks , with snipping of dialogue that disclose that Zeb , who we think was the killer , is just another pawn . The mastermind – surprisal ! – is in reality John , one of Dr. Gordon ’s cancer patients , who has applied prosthetics to his drumhead so that he can hazard to be a dead trunk in the room .

The picture terminate before contribute the interview time to reflect on the two protagonists ' amentia . A very conscious guy with fake brains glued to his bald pass ? OK , I ’d believe a healthy man could sham to be dead while in a way with people for eight hour , but not someone as terminally ill as Jigsaw .

Now You See Me(2013)

Lots of this 2013 magic - heist movie does n’t make sense , but the thing that make the least mother wit is the ending . After pulling off magic that goes beyond the realm of possibility , Mark Ruffalo ’s officer unwrap that everything we ’ve seen was a long con to take revenge on Morgan Freeman for his magician father ’s death . Oh , and he ’s also part of a underground organization called The Eye that protects the secret of material magic . Good thing not a single matter went wrong in a plan that took two decades and four alien to perform .

The Life of David Gale(2003)

Kevin Spacey plays David Gale , a death - row inmate who used to resist the destruction punishment before being convicted for the rape and murder of one of his colleague . Kate Winslet plays a journalist who , on the day he ’s set to be executed , discovers evidence that could exonerate him . Or does she ?

After his destruction , a videotape give away that Gale was complicit in the skeleton - up , sacrificing himself to " examine " that innocent masses are occasionally executed . Gale had lost his married woman and youngster in a divorcement after antecedently being charge of rapine . The claim was n’t true , and he matte up like taking a outdoor stage . The problem is … that de jure proves nothing . Gale would only expose the system as fallible if the trial was fair . By withholding evidence , he violated his own Sixth Amendment rights and rendered his level a strictly aroused one .

The Village(2004)

Where the reveal inSignsmight be the quintessential twist that wear out the film , The Villageis M. Night Shyamalan actively annul an inevitable break . Much likeSaw , the moment Bryce Dallas Howard stumbles out of a modern - day wildlife preserve she believes is a nineteenth - C village , the movie has get in touch with the remnant game .

Shyamalan range himself as the guy wire who tells the audience about a wealthy penis of a grief - direction rophy who purchased a wildlife preserve in the seventies , keep a no - fly zone , and funded a car park service so he could recreate biography from a different metre . Bafflingly , this has act for ten . Equally baffling is the ratiocination , in which nobody learns anything and the Elders vote to remain in the Village . Great .

The Forgotten(2004)

Julianne Moore plays a mother who think her son Sam die in a planer crash while everyone else is convinced she ’s never had a son . Moore consort around trying to get someone to remember Sam , to no avail . Could the administration be running some mephistophelian trial on children ? Covering up a terrorist tone-beginning on a plane ? Nope : it ’s aliens .

Referred to as " them , " these moron are running an experiment on the strength of the mother - child adhesion . Their retentivity - delete technology has n’t been working on mothers , instead drive Julianne Moore crazy . By the remnant , Sam is back , everyone is fine , and the aliens do n’t see anything – except not to mess with Julianne Moore .

High Tension(2003)

This French serial - killer whale splatterfest is a lot of fun if you care graphic gore . Less fun is the end reveal , where the supporter Marie is revealed to be the unknown murderer who killed her friend Alex ’s house . The unreliable - narrator twist blows open up the interior logic of the movie : did anyone drop dead like how Marie imagined it ? Can Marie really muster enough effect to promote a bookcase that decapitate a victim or shove a concrete saw through the window of a car ? If those Death were just imaginary , who give Alex the tongue in the back of the vanguard at the gas post ?

This slasher is fun , but has mammoth opening in logical system . The biggest one , compose Roger Ebert in his review , " is not only large enough to push a hand truck through , but in fact does have a truck driven powerful through it . "

Basic(2003)

On a Panama military base , Samuel L. Jackson ’s Master Sergeant Nathan West leads some Army Rangers on a preparation exercise – and not all of them come back . The 1 who do only want to talk to John Travolta ’s DEA factor , a man whose name is , no joke , Tom Hardy . He and Captain Julia Osborne ( Connie Nielsen ) hear rumors that a band of ex - US military soldier are run hard drugs out of Latin America , and it seems that the soldiers taking part in the grooming exercise run afoul of these drug - runner . In the ensuing engagement , say the survivors , West was kill .

To piece together the truth via interviews , Basicpiles lies upon pull throughout the whole moving picture . The full-grown reveal : the military drug - runners turn out to be a rumor plan to spook cartels while arealanti - drug black - ops chemical group – direct by ( twist ! ) Hardy – hunts the unfit guys . On top of that , we find out that West has just faked his own demise after he outed the group to his ranking officer , not knowing that he was in on the scam . rendering : the " Who killed Sergeant Nathan West ? " investigation is all a red Clupea harangus . Any choler over the " Who kill Sergeant Nathan West ? " probe being a red herring is real .

Source Code(2011)

Jake Gyllenhaal plays Captain Colter Stevens , a pilot who efficaciously dies on a mission in Afghanistan and is observe in a comatose condition to be used in a military experimentation that allows someone to be " inserted " into the last eight second of another late deceased person ’s body . Stevens is repeatedly sent into the body of Sean Fentress and task with look into a gearing bombing . Contrary to what he ’s being tell by the scientists monitoring him , Stevens discover that he is able-bodied to change the story in this alternate timeline , and he ultimately fancy out how to spoil the attack . He also permanently takes over the body of Fentress .

That ’s right : pitiful Sean ’s consciousness gets over - written , even while Stevens is still alert in a vegetational state in his timeline . That means some luckless soul has been blinked out of existence , primarily because our fighter fall in beloved with the mark ’s girlfriend . That ’s profoundly deplorable .

Prometheus(2012)

If you know whatPrometheusis about , please permit us know , because there ’s a subsequence on the room and we definitely desire to see it . Here ’s what we can divine : the black oil stuff was create by the Engineers as a terraforming agent ( when used on themselves ) and as a bio - artillery ( when used on other species ) . What they did n’t count on was replication . When the grim oil is usher in into a sexual cycle , it result to an foreign squid sister . That squid baby will grow into a large typeface - hugger - type creature , like the one that attacks the vivify Engineer and plants the ballock that hatch into something that look almost on the dot like a xenomorph from theAlienseries but apparently is n’t .

Placing to the side all the force inter - crew conflict and Charlize Theron ’s craze unfitness to turn while running , does any of that make any sense ? Why does Noomi Rapace ’s squid baby ’s alien progeny look even vaguely similar to the xenomorph metal money we encounter inAlien(which has no human deoxyribonucleic acid in it ) ? InPrometheus ' place , no one can find out us screaming for answers .

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