Surprising a modern viewer with a sudden plot twist has always been a difficult task, because this requires a competent script, thoughtful character motivation and a very good acting. Most often, the emphasis now is on special effects and general entertainment than on artistic value and, indeed, a good script.
That is why an interesting film with an unexpected ending can be seen much less often than a mediocre picture in 3D format with pretty faces in the lead roles.
“And” means “intrigue”
However, despite the dying hope, good films are still being shot, and some scriptwriters can still come up with sharp plot twists, and directors can qualitatively implement them in films. Sometimes, however, the filmmakers forget that the viewer needs to at least explain a little what is happening on the screen. Therefore, after the credits, film enthusiasts sometimes sit for a few more minutes at a loss, realizing how the action ended. No matter how high-quality a movie with an unexpected ending may be, the viewer will never give him a high rating unless he understands what they wanted to tell him in such a plot twist.
Hopelessness in the style of Stephen King
Since there are fewer and fewer ideas for truly good films - someone has already exploited all the most original thoughts, and there is no time or opportunity to create new ones - “movie makers” have found a good way out.
They shovel bookshelves in search of bestsellers, look at the ratings of popular books and google “the best authors of horror”, and then they write screenplays with a satisfied look. Sometimes they do it very well. Quite popular is the film with an unexpected ending called "Mist". This picture is a film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Stephen King, whose name is publicly known not only to all fans of scary reading, but also to those who do not like to read at all. The film "The Darkness" keeps the viewer in suspense until the very last moment, pumping one drama after another, and the ending simply exceeds all expectations. She also upsets the most, but not by the fact that poorly done, but just the opposite. This film with an unexpected ending can make you really hit the hopelessness, but it does not take away the joy of watching a good movie.
Amazing "Moon" from the USA
Americans in their cinema are very fond of exploiting the theses “man and space”, “man and technology” and the like. This can be seen not only in the cinema of a given nation, but also in its literature. How many science fiction writers America has given the world! Robert Heinlein, Isaac Asimov, Harry Harrison, Robert Sheckley and many, many others - you can glorify this country only for how many amazing books have come from the pen of its writers.
In addition to literature, Americans can create exciting films with an unexpected ending in the science fiction genre. Not so long ago, the moon saw the picture, which for some reason was translated into Russian as “Moon-2112”. The picture can be called a single-actor theater, because 95% of the film, the viewer sees only the game of Sam Rockwell, playing a lone astronaut who is exploring the surface of the moon. With him in a creative tandem stands Kevin Spacey, who voiced the only companion of this astronaut - artificial intelligence named GERTY. The film is practically based on sudden plot twists and shocking the viewer at intervals of every half an hour.
Primal Fear: Career Leap and Rapid Pulse
Reception of an unexpected ending as such was originally introduced in the genres of thriller and "horror", as this is the best way to crown the suspense that has been pumped up for an hour and a half and make the hair on the head of the viewer stir with delight. Therefore , thriller films with an unexpected ending are most often even more scary for moviegoers than standard thrillers. A good example is the movie "Primal Fear" with a great acting duet composed of Richard Gere and Edward Norton. If Gere this picture was only one of many, then Norton, she allowed to show himself in all its glory almost at the dawn of a career.
Richard Gere plays a lawyer who happened to take on the difficult task of justifying an almost hopeless split-faced guy. Edward Norton amazingly played two completely opposite characters, while masterfully switching between them in a split second. The viewer is imbued with confidence in the condemned boy and begins to sympathize with him, when suddenly ... In general, the film is absolutely obligatory for viewing.
Fighting plot twists
There are also psychological films with an unexpected ending, most often also based on popular books. The Fight Club belongs to such films. The plot of the film and the presentation of the main idea are slightly different from how Chuck Palahniuk did it in his novel of the same name. Critics are still arguing over whether the film won from it or still lost, but this does not prevent him from increasing his fan base more and more every year. The cast of the movie Fight Club is simply amazing: here is
Tim Burton’s wife Helena Bonham Carter, and Brad Pitt, and the almost ubiquitous Edward Norton. Spectators are led by the nose throughout the entire timing, in the end to generally surprise him to the core. In the book, this ending was not so unexpected as it appeared in the picture, because hints of it are directly traced in each chapter. Perhaps this is why it is best to first look at the film version, and then find the missing answers in the source book so as not to spoil your impression.
Leo on a gloomy island
The best films with an unexpected ending are designed to truly scare the viewer. Moreover, the fright will be completely different from the one that a person feels when a terrible erysipelas suddenly appears - here the effect will be accompanied by goosebumps and unwillingness to sleep in an empty apartment. In this category, the movie “Island of the Damned” with the unlucky Oscar nominee Leonardo DiCaprio should be mentioned. The timing of the picture is quite noticeable - as much as two hours, but in these two hours the viewer will feel a real palette of emotions.
The picture does not cause much fear, but interesting films with an unexpected ending do not have such a goal. The viewer will be unpleasant and really excited about everything that happens on the screen. Of course, an experienced viewer can immediately guess what the ending will be, because the creators did not fail to place unambiguous hints on it, however, even the most ardent moviegoers can get satisfaction from viewing this picture.
Secrets of the gloomy forest and red hoods
Films with unexpected, unpredictable endings sometimes get satisfactory ratings from critics precisely because of the sudden plot twist in the finale. This happened with the film The Village, which the Russian localizers called "The Mysterious Forest." The picture is declared as horrors, and a promising trailer makes us hope for the best, however, in fact, the movie turned out to be rather boring and not too thought out. The forest was not so mysterious, and the main character was not distinguished by outstanding acting talent.
An unexpected ending, beautiful
autumn landscapes and green eyes of Bryce Dallas Howard - this is what the film is worth watching until the end. On the whole, he is not at all frightening or even interested, and it seems that a lot more effort was spent on costumes and decorations than on working out the details of the script. "Mysterious forest" paid off at the box office only thanks to a well-composed trailer and a good advertising campaign.
Thrillers are sad too
Sometimes good films with the most unexpected endings are not very popular and popular, although they are of very high quality. This tendency is very easy to explain - modern viewers most often pay attention to those products whose creators have significantly spent on their promotion. When this happens, somewhere a sad high-quality film with a poor marketing campaign is sad. "Statics" is just such a picture.
There are no famous actors and expensive sets, and special effects are minimized. Everything rests only on an interesting idea and a really good acting game by
Milo Ventimiglia and Sarah Shahi. The plot of the film focuses on the problems of a young family after the death of their young child. Mother cannot find a place for herself from grief, and father is trying to somehow live on and turn this terrible page of their life. However, "Statics" is far from melodrama, so the most interesting part begins already at the fifteenth minute of timekeeping. The adventures of the couple are very interesting to watch, and the ending can bring to tears especially sensitive viewers.
Claustrophobia and Misanthropy
When in communication some film enthusiasts torment each other with requests in the spirit of “advise a movie with an unexpected ending,” they are often simply given the rating of the most popular paintings with an unpredictable ending. In these lists you can rarely see not the worst movie with the name "Devil". In this picture we are talking about a company of completely strangers among themselves people who managed to enter the “hellish elevator”. They went in, but getting out of it was not so easy. Every hour, one of the characters dies for some reason, and no one succeeds in explaining what is happening. The film focuses the attention of the viewer on ordinary human vices that lead to all troubles, emphasizing that the only and most terrible evil in the world is not the Devil, but man.