Top 30 Unexpected Plot Twists That Saved Bad Movies

[@WatchMojo]

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[@mousemd]

The sixth sense. Maybe not a bad movie, but a twist most did not see coming. When they shot the doctor. I said dude done for. So I wasn't surprised when they revealed

[@milodoiing2280]

Knock on the Cabin. I figured it out from the beginning the 4 people were the 4 horseman of the apocalypse.

[@gabe9348]

You should consider the 1990 movie, "Presumed Innocent". Harrison Ford, Brian Dennehy, Raúl Juliá, Bonnie Bedelia, Paul Winfield and Greta Scacchi. It's a great courtroom drama with a twist I certainly didn't see coming.

[@jameswinners2001]

Hasn't anyone seen the movie, "The Other?" Based on a Tom Tryon novel, a lot of the films listed here, and many other KZbin lists, are really take offs of that movies premise.

[@CandiceVidito32]

The plot twist from Orphan was pretty good. The twist that Esther was a small adult and not a child was really surprising.

[@AmyDLucci]

The only thing that was "bad" in the movie was that horrible husband 😂

[@Daniel-nn8mr]

​@@AmyDLucci and Esther seducing the father, ewww 🤢

[@MariuszMroczek-dd7ku]

It's brilliant how the film played with the viewer and pretended to be a copy of The Omen or something similar.

[@quincybrown1496]

She was a grown ass woman all along.

[@Daniel-nn8mr]

@@quincybrown1496 duh.

[@its_mot]

everyone. i did research while watching. i listened to the whole video, wrote down all the movies and did some web searching and tried to see what all 30 movies had in common and why they are considered “bad”. according to WM, a bad movie is any movie rated below a ~77% average on ROTTEN TOMATOES. but yes, i agree with most of yall. there are some banger movies in here. 0:22 - Lucky Number Slevin - 52% 1:27 - Red Notice - 37% 2:33 - Den of Thieves - 41% 3:25 - A Perfect Getaway - 62% 4:36 - Reindeer Games - 25% 5:43 - War - 13% 6:45 - The Uninvited - 32% 7:51 - Passengers (2008) - 19% 8:48 - Freddy’s Dead - 23% 9:43 - Identity - 63% 10:42 - Devil - 50% 11:46 - The Nutcracker and the Four Realms - 32% 12:53 - The Boy - 31% 13:57 - Don’t Worry Darling - 38% 15:10 - Life - 67% 16:34 - Click - 34% 17:45 - Dead Silence - 21% 19:12 - Seven Pounds - 27% 20:22 - Skeleton Key - 37% 21:36 - Malignant - 77% 22:51 - Vanilla Sky - 42% 24:00 - Fallen - 40% 25:32 - Repo Men - 21% 26:51 - Ender’s Game - 63% 27:56 - Smokin’ Aces - 31% 29:28 - Final Destination 5 - 63% 30:48 - Terminator 3 - 70% 32:08 - Orphan - 59% 33:21 - Book of Eli - 47% 34:56 - Saw 3D - 9%

[@INJUMAN101]

I love all these movies.

[@fran3ro]

I don't understand why people keep looking at Rotten Tomatoes

[@JoseLopez-ks9nf]

Respect to you

[@dallyllama97]

@@fran3roI look at the audience score I feel like it’s the most accurate

[@PhantoMace2012]

I thought Seven Pounds was a great film

[@thevekomakid]

mind you, malignant went from a great movie to an amazing movie with its plot twist

[@Tunnelvision705]

I agree, Malignant was awesome💯🫡

[@m00shminki88]

@@thevekomakid agreed

[@LOAF-do2xm]

I don’t think we saw tha same movie 🥴

[@hal5228]

i lovedddd malignant lol it blew my mind

[@terryburke1489]

I love Malignant but it definitely seemed like James Wan was going out of his way to make a dull slasher right up to the point he dropped the curtain

[@Maykay524]

I loved Lucky Number Sleven! It’s not talked about enough

[@jesuscruz2068]

My favorite movie

[@Seneca84]

Yes, an it's not at all a bad movie saved by the twist. Once more, WatchMojo is 80% clickbait.

[@Rifter-]

Yeah wait, that's a great movie. What is Watch Mojo smoking?!

[@uuiam]

I just realized that the title of this movie is BAD MOVIES saved by the twist... Lucky Number Slevin is an incredible movie with an even more incredible twist, what the fuck are they smoking at WatchMojo.

[@JosephWalker-ip7pd]

It's a little convoluted, but i thought it was pretty good.

[@ThePebble_20]

Identity was far from a bad movie. Mojo, you're on crack.

[@integral]

I was one of those who like Identify a lot but kinda hated the big reveal at the end. It just wasn't handled as well as it could have been.

[@CUSELİSFAN]

@@integral totally agreed. the movie was ruined by the ending, if anything. (I am assuming you mean the final scene where we see the kid). It sh.ts on the whole plot.

[@Jerbraska]

They truly are

[@Chernobog2]

I lost interest in whatever was happening in that movie as soon as it was revealed that none of the characters were real

[@dragonmaster613]

They're going off of Rotten Tomatoes or Movie Critic lists.

[@Jeremiah_Rivers76]

_Final Destination 5_ coming full circle was a clever twist.

[@alioh7615]

That was absolutely fantastic

[@oasis6583]

Fallen with Denzel has always been Underrated.

[@lynnevetter]

Loooove this movie🎉🎉

[@goldenlady3495]

That twist pissed me right off😂

[@DeborahEdwards-u8x]

I liked that film too. Creepy as hell.

[@FrankWoods-s1x]

Time is on my side yes it is

[@42faticus]

Lucky Number Slevin is a great movie

[@kana2113]

Yes fantastic movie

[@m00shminki88]

C'mon now. Malignant is so NOT a bad movie.

[@BlackHatCinephile]

🥈

[@Reaperguy67]

​@@BlackHatCinephile go outside spam bot

[@franciscoluque9525]

Can you name the 30 movies on the list? I just dont wanna spoil myself😅

[@freestylefridays3934]

I thought the same thing... watchmojo trippin

[@LOAF-do2xm]

So bad could not even get thru it‼️🥴

[@Daxverse]

Malignant was actually pretty good. Jeeez, didn't expect that twist tho.

[@phantomrequim]

That Final Destination plot twist was genius! I'm thinking I was watching a sequel when it was a prequel the whole time, damn that was good!

[@ElizabethMcCormick-s2n]

Isabelle Fuhrman was awesome as Esther, she did a great job of portraying an adult woman who was decades older than she was!

[@Sunprism]

The comments are exclusively people defending various movies. I'll go with...Lucky Number Slevin is great

[@TheMooglamachuck]

Why have you done Malignant dirty like that!? It's a fantastic movie with a great twist.

[@joaquimjorgepina6031]

Orphan is not a bad movie, even without that twist. 😅

[@alexa.english174]

Identity is not a bad movie

[@pfrell803]

Who comes up with these lists??? Calling Identity a bad movie is crazy, calling The Book of Eli a bad movie and saying the action was a "drag to watch" is bat shit insane

[@knightwolf9863]

I don’t blame Ender for his actions. I blame Graff for putting him in that position in the first place. If anything, Graff should share most of the blame for what happened. Also, in Book of Eli, there’s one scene before the scavengers try to ambush him that, if you blink you might miss it, you can partially see he is blind.

[@QuiritareMovieDatabase]

Just because it's a horror movie doesn't have to be bad. Malignant, The Skeleton Key, Fallen are great. The Uninvited and Vanilla Sky are remakes.

[@ernstbtmn]

Drag Me to Hell. One of the best twist out there!

[@kemoyjohnson4333]

yes but this is a top 30 plot twists for "bad" movies

[@ernstbtmn]

@@kemoyjohnson4333 Exactly? lol

[@kemoyjohnson4333]

@@ernstbtmn drag me to hell is not a bad movie?

[@ernstbtmn]

@@kemoyjohnson4333 As stated; 'Top 30 Unexpected Plot Twists that Saved Bad Movies?' I think Drag Me to Hell should have made the list. (it has a 90% RT score/but only made 45mil in America)

[@kemoyjohnson4333]

@@ernstbtmn 30mil budget, 90mil gross... bad movies dont do that

[@samanthavonteese333]

Lucky Number Slevin is one of my absolute favourite movies ever! Not just the twist, but the touching relationship between Slevin and Mr. Goodcat 🥰💜🥰

[@rubygracemoseley8144]

I’ve seen Seven Pounds twice. My mom wanted me the first time I saw it that it was one of the saddest movies she’s ever seen and that I (a frequent cryer in movies) would absolutely cry in it. I figured out pretty early on that Tim probably lost his wife and that’s why he’s sad but I still had no clue what the main plot had to do with his wife’s death and why he was doing all of the things he’s been doing. The ending I thought was pretty good and well executed. Plus it made me sob over the last 30ish minutes of the film. I rewatched it and spent the whole movie in tears knowing what everything meant

[@neskire]

"Vanilla Sky" was a brilliant movie! It is in the same class as 'The Matrix", "Being John Malkovich", "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", and "Fight Club". I remember seeing people walk out of "Vanilla Sky" and "Spotless Mind" and I know that some people want formulaic movies and are bothered by films that make you think.

[@MeaCulpa04]

That movie had me tripping, watched it at the theater next to a chick who I could see driving us off the road on our way home for not being faithful.

[@sagewilliams2449]

A great twist will always save a bad movie solely because it makes you rethink and rewatch the movie

[@Slayde.Wilson]

Malignant was a great movie

[@LOAF-do2xm]

Omg

[@stanleygray7402]

"Ghost Ship" should be the inspiration for this list.... Crazy plot twist... And well not sure if it made the movie better... Definitely made it a 100 times more interesting... "High Tension"

[@TrillCityBaby]

The Dead Silence plot twist never gets old

[@Caffeine_Club]

I love 'Smokin' Aces'. It's a fun, ridiculous, violent cartoon of a film. I'll die on this hill.

[@AeonStudiosFilm]

Malignant is awesome movie

[@Barbora_Skrlova]

So many good movies overall.

[@nicolefutrell7412]

I thought Fallen and Identity were good movies

[@austinwelch1282]

I found orphan 2 a much better twist. I mean an evil child is adopted and the mother and son are even worse. Now that's a twist.

[@tompilkington8708]

I will never think of Fallen as a bad movie. Also, how dare you say The Book of Eli is bad.

[@DenisPopov888]

Only an idiot would call 5th Final destination a bad one - thisis a brilliant prequel, full stop.

[@freelikeyve]

i'd say its the best one after 1 and 2. the ending was really worth it

[@octavio0390]

Smokin’ Aces was slept on. I rewatch that movie all the time. I think Ryan Reynolds did some of his best acting in that movie.

[@greenmrkitty1]

I figured Final destination 5 was set in the past as soon as I saw their cell phones

[@ProtoBlueGaming]

Nah nah, Malignant was AMAZING

[@jps6071]

About point 4. This does not mean that Judgement Day could NEVER be prevented, but simply that both Skynet and the Resistance had send back their Terminators too late to do that, AFTER it´s development was finished and it had already been uploaded into the internet. Had they send the T850 a few years earlier it would have been different.

[@MR-qz3ud]

Fun fact about the Orphan: The psychiatric ward doctor is played by a czech actor Karel Roden. Even the writings seem to be czech. About 10 or 15 years ago, there was a similar case in the Czech republic, when an adult woman (about 30yo) took an identity of a teen. If I remember well, she was at first involved in a case, where she was adopted by a family that abused her. Already an adult imposing to be a child. She was a mystery and no one had an idea who she really was. She was just considered an abused child. Then the truth came out. She disappeared. Only to reappear in another country (I think it was Norway) as a "child" again.

[@mileswashington6692]

She was an actual child the family and doctor lied

[@legendarynaga]

7 Pounds ending made the movie worse for me because box jellyfish venom works by destroying the heart cells and probably affected the other organs. None of the people who needed the organs would actually have been helped by his 'sacrifice'.

[@rubygracemoseley8144]

I watched The Book Of Eli once with my mom and I was completely shocked and impressed but that twist ending

[@Dopecheetah]

Um Identity is a good ass movie!

[@deoncoleman9912]

Book of Eli is not a bad movie.

[@oldgamergangbuster]

yep, and im not agree that Eli was blind, he just knew braile

[@AirQBert]

9:43 - I loved Identity and I was overly proud of myself for figuring out most of the plot twist before the end. Shout-out to John C. McGinley for playing a bit against type here.

[@LadyKattrina84]

So, wait... Repo Men is just Repo: The Genetic opera?

[@Wallenquist]

Wasn't there something about Repo: The Genetic Opera plagiarising something else as well?

[@LadyKattrina84]

@@Wallenquist I'll be honest, I'm not sure. I only watched Repo because I kept seeing one of the songs on TikTok and it was hyped so much. Plus I kinda like Anthony Stewert Head as an actor.

[@112JFD]

I Hated passengers from 2008 because of the twist! I also hated the movie the Book of Eli for the same reason!

[@MrLFDV]

Eli was not blind but could read braille. At least from what I recall...

[@hoodwrecked]

Malignant is not a bad movie. Shouldn’t be on this list

[@nbrown487]

Most of these movies are actually pretty good, who came up with this list???

[@its_mot]

i think their deep dive research is rotten tomatoes.

[@ZodiacArden]

Orphan is NOT a bad movie

[@mattlatakas7051]

No, its not. The sequel is pretty good too.

[@StevenSmith-yj6xq]

Not only did i appreciate the fact that Dr Gordon was Jigsaws secret apprentice but also that we finally got tsee hoffman get his comeuppance

[@dragonjames7911]

Malignant is the scariest movie I’ve ever seen and the plot twist was the scariest one I’ve witnessed!!

[@pozexisthor]

Mojo is high af, listing awesome movies as bad

[@KatInJapan-q2e]

I was highly disappointed with Red Notice. It had a weak plot and the acting was terrible. There was no chemistry between the actors, and I love Ryan Reynolds. He was so lackluster in this film. Identity was awesome! Life was predictable. The Skeleton Key was soooooooooo dumb. It was so predicable. I fell asleep during it. Fallen had me rage. LOL Repo Men was meh. Ender's Game was forgettable. Smokin Aces was fun. The Book of Eli was so-so.

[@johncurieliii2758]

Ugh, I thought this was a list of bad movies. Lucky Number Slevin is sooooo good

[@rockmanlamar]

Right! That movie was awesome!

[@sebastiangrimm4472]

I know it's all a matter of taste, but sorry, most of the films may not be masterpieces, but they are definitely not bad. Lucky Number Slevin is such an underrated gem! And Malignant was really cool!

[@Sunprism]

Not sure you should give Ender's Game this honor....it's kind of one of the most famous literary twists there is.

[@juliusfrauenglass2411]

It is just indicative that people don't read the books that movie's come from.

[@JoshisJoshisJosh]

20:17 oh y'all got slap jokes 😁😁

[@silverjeyjey4054]

Seven Pounds "slapping" viewers right in the feels 😂

[@amentlik]

Thank you so much for including lucky number slevin!! It shocked me so much it became a favorite even though few have even heard of it.

[@Daniel-nn8mr]

Malignant is a phenomenal movie, i love James Wan.

[@samjohns6602]

They should do another list of horrible plot twists that ruin what was a good movie until the twist. I nominate The Number 23.

[@JurassicGodzillaFan]

Malignant was not bad at all. My favorite film of 2021. I loved the twist. I never saw that coming.

[@FreddyKurganNimmo]

9:36 - I think y'all need to look up what "satisfying" means...🤔🤷‍♂️

[@IsakAidee]

The thing with Dr. Gordon is, I remember people theorizing about him being the accomplice back when Saw 3 came out, refering to the limp of the guy who implats a key behind that dude's eye, the surgical skills needed to perform that technique, his unknown and ambiguous fate after Saw 1. I hoped they would reveal it. Glad they did... BUT WHY IS THE BLOOD FUCKING PINK IN THE ENTIRE MOVIE?!!

[@spacegoat0133]

Book of eli is such a badass movie. The twist is revealed when the bad guy opens the bible and its in braille, this thing he’s been chasing is completely useless and the person he’s been hunting is the only one to understand it. Not only this, but Eli was able to recite the entire bible from memory before his death, forever preserving a very important part of our history. Beautiful movie with a really nice message

[@borisammerlaan7408]

How are these supposedly bad movies? Lucky Number Slevin - This is not about the twist, but just great dialogue. A Perfect Getaway - I would have enjoyed that without the twist Reindeer Games - I really don't understand why the director and the actors seemed to want to distance themselves from this movie. It's just fun, and when I saw it in a sneak preview the audience LOVED it. The Uninvited - The acting made this movie enjoyable. Sure, the twist elevated it, but it was certainly not a bad movie before that. Identity - I have read the book and saw a movie that for some reason had a happy ending, but I hadn't really connected this to And then there were none / little Indians. The "twist" came too early, but it was enjoyable nonetheless. Devil - "too similar to Saw" - while showing a scene from the original movie, when gruesomeness was relatively minimal. The Boy - without the twist, maybe not great, but definitely not bad. Don't Worry Darling - not really a twist if you're expecting it, is it? Life - Nah, the "twist" didn't really save this formulaic movie. Click - Not really a twist. But Walken saves any movie he's in. The Skeleton Key - One of the few Ehren Krueger stories I actually liked. Not a great movie, but definitely not bad either. Vanilla Sky - Nope, the twist didn't really save that movie. Fallen - Another movie with highly entertaining dialogue and scenes. That, and it's rather explicitly not a twist. Repo Men - All right, that was a bad movie. Still so after the twist. Ender's Game - Bad? What have you been smoking? T3 - Definitely not saved by the mediocre twist. Saw 3D - A stab in the back for all who mainly loved the first movie.

[@jaysondoak6184]

Lucky Number Slevin is an underrated gem. The scene with Morgan Freeman and Sir Ben Kingsley alone is worth watching. And the more people watch Fallen, the better.

[@samuelwallace2782]

The Lucky Number Slevin slander will not stand!

[@ZeldaSam1]

32:07 "But remember what Kyle Reese says to the psychologist in the 1st movie: we may not have been able to stop the Terminator wars from ever happening, but @ least we know we win.

[@johnburt7935]

I loved how Eli's abilities were "deniably" miraculous. He *_MIGHT_* have been able to do everything he did naturally . . . .

[@freestylekomics7756]

"Forgettable Films" is mad disrespectful on a lot of these films

[@night2fransic]

I was absolutely shock and terrified by Life’s ending. I didn’t expect the ending to be so scary especially how did they used the music.

[@FatalGambit]

I'm looking forward to the next Saw movie, cause Saw X revealed Hoffman's been involved longer than we thought, and there's no way he didn't also set up an escape plan in the bathroom.

[@TheNikean]

You can tell the list is BS by the thumbnail. Malignant? Yeah, right 😂

[@CatGamer-wc2ij]

Because the movies fall under 77% for audience scores. I agree with that metric. It removes personal bias.

[@Evergreenoutsider10]

Skeleton key is good!

[@zeldaholich6436]

I actually really liked “The Boy” until that ending. The ending ruined it for me personally.

[@mszoomy]

I LOVED Lucky Number Slevin, great movie

[@vc180191]

Not sure if it's a good example, but there is one movie I've seen, can't remember the name but it's based off the Deep Blue chess computer. Simplified but the story being about a disgraced chess grandmaster who lost to the first chess playing computer, causing him to suffer a breakdown, ruining his life. He's tricked into playing a chess game against a rich megalomaniac using real people as players where they die as the game progresses. The final twist at the end after he's forced to play as a piece and sacrifices his life so his estranged wife isn't killed....it's actually an overly elaborate intervention made by his wife to try and help him get over his trauma, as he was playing against the same computer again, not a human player, and he managed to beat it.

[@larontaylor5727]

Wait, lucky number slevin and alot of movies on here were 🔥🔥🔥

[@tracykolbosky8313]

Can’t wait

[@turtlesallthewaydown8831]

Repo Man pays homage to both Old Boy (hallway fight scene) and Brazil with it's ending.

[@Excanda]

21's read unexpected twist is that the real killer isn't any of the adults, but the only child identity that seems to get killed early on.

[@Mac_Kymera]

WM are on crack with some of these film choices 😂

[@darksideofthemoon488]

Don't forget that Vanilla Sky came out after Minority Report. I like to think that after the end of Vanilla Sky, Tom Cruise's character was revived but lost his fortune in the process so he had to find a new career in law enforcement in the future and became a cop for a Precrime division.

[@BreadieMercury]

Why did this say "bad movies", its some bangers on this list lol

[@CatGamer-wc2ij]

Because they fall under 77% for audience scores. I agree with that metric. It removes personal bias.

[@integral]

Loved "Vanilla Sky", find it's a very rewatchable enjoyable movie. But hey, you do you.

Vanilla Sky is on point on this list, because Abre Tus Ojos was freaking amazing!

[@edstatueson]

I thought the Nutcracker movie was pleasant enough, but it's.... It's a kids' movie. I watched it with my kids. The accusation that it's too simple, a fight between good and evil? It still has to be the Nutcracker at its core, which again, is the dream of a child!

[@aceldamia9114]

Orphan was brilliant from start to finish, regardless of the twist. Even before you ever know there is anything going on out of the ordinary, it's pretty much perfect.

[@jamescox4008]

Man... I didn't know The Book of Eli or Ender's Game were bad films. I enjoyed them a lot. I read that The Book of Eli could be getting a TV prequel series. That was announced in January 2024 though.

[@trerobinson3975]

Wait, it wasn’t clear and predictable before the reveal that it was obviously the pod w the alien that was landing on earth in Life??? I mean, the pod started spinning out of control in space, and that’s only bad if it’s the pod that’s supposed to be landing on earth. Nothing bad about the pod that’s going to deep space being knocked off course and away from earth

[@olleselin]

Hey, what movie is that thumbnail from?

[@GOODisforLUCK]

Malignant, James Wan movie from 2021. Absolute BANGER movie.

[@symbolguy3609]

And let’s just say the title, “Malignant,” is related to the twist.

[@olleselin]

Ok

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

​@@olleselinbuckle up. It's a wild ride.

[@BlackHatCinephile]

🥉

[@nived8748]

Lucky number slevin is one of my fav movies i disagree with it being horrible

[@theywouldnthavetocensormei9231]

I think Malignant is a great movie, it's completely over the top to a bat shit degree, but that's the point. It's a love letter to all the shlocky B horror movies we love even though they're terrible, except this one was done with a big budget and great effects. You aren't supposed to take it seriously and look for plot holes, you're supposed to just have fun, and it's a ton of fun.

[@toastytoast77]

Intentionally bad does mean good. It just means successful in its goal. Every scene of him doing things backwards was goofy

[@connorsims8253]

Eli was blind. But in the movie his faith gave him sight. Throughout the movie Eli was not blind. When he completed his , became blind again

[@fritzadonisperez4550]

Oh. I remember Dead Silence. Specially the last part "Now, who's the dummy?!"

[@HorribleGamingFun]

Fallen was not convoluted

[@pmurraymusic]

The plot twist is that this is WatchMojo's way of pointing out how bad they think these movies are 😅😅😅