The film industry is gaining new momentum in styles, directions, editing features and specifics of graphic effects. Today, filmmakers have learned to make really high-quality, high-quality films. More and more new, interesting and extraordinary films appear at the box office, and the action-packed lines and the amazing ability to shoot incredibly realistic frames amaze the viewer’s imagination. Among the films there are those that I want to watch again and again, frame by frame, finding for myself something new and previously missed. But most of all viewers are attracted by those tapes that are viewed from beginning to end in one breath. Films with an unpredictable end in the popularity rating occupy leading positions in almost all countries of the world.
In one of his interviews, the director of the famous thriller “I Spit on Your Graves” Stephen R. Monroe once said: “It doesn’t matter what emotions the plot of the movie causes the viewer. It is important that the viewer in principle is emotional, experiencing a barrage of various sensations. And they are positive or negative - not the essence. " According to Monroe, it is important not only to attract the attention of moviegoers, you also need to touch their souls, touch their feelings, hook the strings in their minds. Watching a movie, the viewer should feel a keen emotion: indignation, surprise, experience, excitement, awe. If the directors and scriptwriters succeeded, then we can assume that the film is successful.
Over the past couple of decades, the world has been presented many interesting stories viewed by movie lovers with an unpredictable ending in one go. The list of the best of them, according to the public, most often includes psychological thrillers with a dramatic unexpected outcome.
No. 10. Pandorum
The list of the most popular and viewed in one go films with an unpredictable ending opens the work of director Christian Alvart. About her the most positive and even enthusiastic reviews. The 2009 film “Pandorum” did not become a novelty among its own kind: the theme of open space and the idea of ​​relocating the planet Earth has already been touched upon by many screenwriters before. Mixing the fantasy genre with thriller and horror in one whole gave its result - many were interested in the picture.
The plot of the film unfolds around the global problem of mankind. The meaning is this: the future, the planet is gradually overflowing, the human race is on the verge of a world catastrophe. And now 60,000 people and enough animals to send life on another planet, suitable in all respects for a person, are sent aboard the Elysium spacecraft. The action begins with the fact that the main character, played by Ben Foster, wakes up in one of sixty thousand capsules. Dennis Quaid, who plays the role of the senior cosmonaut, “wakes up” from hypersnip and looks just as perplexed as his colleague. While the memory and the meaning of their stay on the ship begins to slowly return to the main characters, the broken gearbox of the spacecraft makes itself known.
Fueled by a limited amount of time and understanding that something went wrong in the idea of ​​the flight initiators, the main characters are faced with two more problems. The first is that other living creatures are present on the ship, but these are not people ... And the second - in conditions of fear of an enclosed space and constant nervous tension, characters who woke up from a dream develop a psychoneuroleptic disease - a pandorum. Manifestations of fear, panic attacks, psychosis - all this is spurred by the terrible atrocities of otherworldly creatures that already leave traces of cannibalism and brutal massacre of people on the ship.
How to survive in these terrible conditions? How not to die from a terrible disease? And how to prevent the attack of vile individuals that have expanded throughout the vast space of Elysium? If you want to know the answer, watch the 2009 film Pandorum.
No. 9. Deja vu
Another action blockbuster from the category viewed in one breath is considered the film "Deja Vu" (2006). Denzel Washington, playing an FBI employee, arrives at the crime scene. The crime is terrible, the number of deaths is over 500. In one of the festive carnivals on the river, a ferry explodes with the sailors in dismissal and their families. Denzel Washington's hero draws attention to a girl who, it would seem, died from an explosion. But during the investigation, the detective’s inquiring mind and intuitive instincts do not fail him in his opinion on the fact that the girl died earlier, before the explosion, and she is directly related to what happened.
Federal programming experts are proposing to Denzel to test the latest technical equipment that can turn back the clock. The Washington hero is charged with the task of returning four days earlier and trying to prevent what happened with the help of the Snow White program. A great play of actors, amazing and realistic special effects, an original idea - all this makes the viewer empathize with the characters and worry about how events unfold in the future. Are you curious to know what is the essence of the ending of the film “Deja Vu” (2006)? Then hurry to look at it.
Number 8. "Moon 2112"
Another film from the series of those that space lovers like so much. The fantastic film, however, is strikingly different in its storyline from the previously mentioned motion picture Pandorum. The movie “Moon 2112” does not belong to the horror genre, it is rather a fantastic drama where director Duncan Jones touched on the global problems of mankind. What earned a place for his film among prize-winners of the 2009 Sundance and Tribec Film Festivals.
The plot unfolds on the surface of the Earth's satellite - on the moon. Time is a distant future. An employee of the automated station Sam is on duty on a rotational basis at the Sareng mining base. The company is a lone employee of the mining base is only a computerized talking robot Gerti, except for him on the moon - not a soul. Sam's three-year contract is drawing to a close. All this time he saw his wife and little daughter only via satellite in the monitor screen. Inspired by the speedy return to Earth, two weeks before the shift, Sam meets his successor. Who would you think this changer is? Do not believe me - a clone of Sam.
An unexpected turn of events opens up terrifying realities for the viewer: the management of the mining station from watch to watch clones people, thus ensuring the uninterrupted operation of their rare gas production base on the Moon. All this time, every three years, unhappy people - Sam's clones - live with faith in something that does not actually exist. And after the “shelf life” of health, which, I must say, from a constant stay in the environment of confined space and the lack of natural oxygen, rapidly deteriorates, the “worked-out Sam model” is eliminated, eliminated. A new substitute wakes up to replace him from long hypersn, a new substitute, a new clone.
The picture caused a resonance, intrigued with its originality, an amazing turn of events. The author of the picture, Duncan Jones, raised to the surface not only the problem of slave labor, beggarly wages and terrifying conditions in which modern people are ready to work for the prosperity and well-being of their own family. Among other things, the side of the negative attitude towards capitalist businessmen-rulers who are not alien to the killing of living people, deceiving them, exploiting living labor and using them as a slave labor force is clarified. Psychologically, the movie is quite strong, very interesting. Although this is a practically one-man movie, the movie "Moon 2112" was released with stunning success. And still enjoys popularity.
Number 7. "Time Error"
A 2014 film about an extraordinary photographing machine, capable of capturing a fragment from tomorrow once a day. Three young people - Finn, Kelly and Jasper - all live together in a country house. One day they find this amazing machine photographing the future in the house of their scientist neighbor. Over time, the guys begin to use it to their advantage - to earn money, leaving themselves something like notes on the window about tomorrow. So, looking at the photo, they always know what will happen tomorrow at a certain time.
It got to the point that the guys began to earn serious money: they made bets at the betting company and always won, of course, thanks to the miracle machine. But something starts to go wrong: never-losing customers attract the attention of a bookmaker and the truth is revealed. The children have no choice but to “liquidate” the witness. And here begins ...
A key unpredictable turn of events lies in the ending. It turns out that the camera took not one picture a day, but two: morning and evening at 8:00 and 20:00, respectively. No one knew about this except Kelly. She used the car to her advantage, trying to attract Finn's attention. To do this, she had to sleep with Jasper, and then kill both guys. Famously twisted, right? To understand everything, it is definitely worth seeing the film with your own eyes.
No. 6. "Others"
Filmed in the horror genre, only to the very end reveals the essence of its drama. Grace with her two children lives in a mansion and waits for her husband to return from World War II. The house is huge, Grace hires a maid - two women and a male guard. Throughout the film, director Alejandro Amenabar immerses the viewer in secret rustles, creaking floors, terrifying visions, eerie images flickering in the constantly gloomy light of the mansion. And everything would be painfully corny, if at the end it was not revealed that Grace was mentally ill. She strangled her children with a pillow, after which she committed suicide. And now her spirit and the spirits of her children are persecuting all those who are trying to settle in the mansion. The film "Others" (2001) excites consciousness with sharp moments and plunges into a woeful state of compassion in its denouement.
No. 5. "Time loop"
The plot tells the viewer about fantastic time travels: Joe works as an “eraser”, he eliminates people from the future who are not pleasing to the mafia. The film adaptation of the film “The Loop of Time” (2012) is full of vivid special effects, an amazing play of actors, and a lot of glowing scenes. What was Joe’s surprise when, one fine day, from the future, representatives of a mafia group sent him to the “carpet” him ... himself, an old man and changed in appearance. Will Joe kill himself? Watch the whole movie.
Number 4. "Exam"
The 2009 film tells the story of a company looking for a true professional. For this, 8 people who passed a rigorous selection are closed by managers in a room with a security guard and within 80 minutes look for an answer to a question that has not been asked. It is necessary to answer what was not asked. You can’t go out, talk with the staff - you can’t. The participants of this game must independently come to an answer, and the strongest will win.
Here, applicants for the position begin to show their true face. Fights, set-ups, and even the opportunity to commit murder for the sake of a career - all this keeps the viewer in suspense until the very end. The denouement is surprising in that among the members of the eight the director of the organization, seeking a specialist for an important position, is staying. Interesting? Then we advise you to watch this movie.
No. 3. "Mind Games"
The three leaders in the ranking of the best films with unpredictable denouement opens the amazing drama of Ron Howard. Another masterpiece of American cinema tells a story based on real events. John Forbes Nash Jr., the great mathematician of his time, did a tremendous job in game theory. A genius with a mathematical mindset, he was several times ahead of his predecessors and opened a whole section in a scientific subject.
The plot of the film "Mind Games" in 2001 draws into the thick of things, starting from the moment when the FBI agent offers John the job of a decoder in a serious criminal case. By virtue of his amazing knowledge and ability to work with numbers, he gets involved in a stream of events developing as sparkly as he quickly bogs down in their whirlpool. What is the indescribable surprise that the viewer experiences, realizing that the FBI agent, a student friend and a little girl accompanying John throughout the storyline are just the fruit of his sore imagination, fiction, the result of paranoid schizophrenia that befell a genius on background of his unique abilities. It’s worth watching the film, if only for the sake of feeling all these mind-boggling Nash experiences, which are completely unaware of the duality of their consciousness.
No. 2. "The Perfect Escape"
In second place is the tickling nerves of a tropical story. This is another amazing film with a completely unpredictable turn of events. Initially, the viewer is shown episodes with a young couple - Sidney and Cliff. Judging by their perky mood and talk about the honeymoon, the guys just got married and decided to fly to a tropical paradise to rest. During the next walk, they intersect with another young couple, who somehow slightly intrusively offer their company in the following attacks on local paradise lands. In the meantime, all the local newspapers are spreading information about two bloodthirsty killers, presumably a man and a woman, who kill couples, rob them and live their lives ... Are these new friends of Sidney and Cliff?
No matter how. The 2009 film “Perfect Escape” throws the viewer into silent shock with a sharp turn of events: the watchers are shown footage of one of the murders in a black and white image format, where their faces are not visible at first, and as the events unfold, the focus concentrates on the outlines ... who would you think? Sidney and Cliff! It was they who bloodthirstily took the lives of the real owners of their names, pulled out their teeth and cut off the phalanges of their fingers so that the corpses could not be identified. And then, taking their names, they took advantage of their honeymoon packages. A sharp turn of events, is not it?
No. 1. "Shutter Island"
And finally, the leader among gorgeous paintings with an amazing denouement. This film for the past nine years remains in the leading position among the best films with an unpredictable end. In one breath, a dashingly twisted plot unfolds around the inhabitants of Ashcliffe Hospital, located on a lonely gloomy island.
The main character, Teddy Daniels, whose role is played by the magnificent actor Leonardo DiCaprio, is a police marshal and is investigating the disappearance of one of the patients of the mentally ill hospital, and also wants to figure out the murder of his wife and children. From the first minutes of the protagonist’s appearance in the clinic’s walls, the audience’s consciousness is disturbed by its gloom, ominous hopeless gloom, where it smells of conspiracy and terrible secrets. Everyone around behaves strangely, as if they know something, but no one says anything. The mentally ill themselves look at him and react inappropriately to a meeting with him - they either laugh, or put a finger to their lips, symbolizing silence. And even the hospital staff does not show any respect for the policeman who came from the mainland to the island with his partner to investigate this complicated case. The film "Island of the Damned" (2010) keeps in suspense from the first episode until the last second of the film, leaving the viewer in a state of utter daze after watching his ending.
The apotheosis of the whole action is reflected in the final ten minutes of the film. The main character suddenly realizes that he is not Teddy Daniels. He is Andrew Laddis, a patient at the hospital on the island of the Cursed Mentally Ill at number 67, who set his own wife on fire because she, mentally unstable, drowned two of their joint children in a pond. Laddis was assigned a lobotomy, but his attending physician, trying his best to save his life and believing in his sanity, imitated this whole performance with a policeman and a missing patient only so that Ladys himself remembered everything and accepted the situation as it is. Island of the Damned (2010) is a film that needs to be watched again and again, carefully studying every detail in order to compare all the events and put their chronological sequence into a single puzzle.