A movie starts off promising and engaging and then takes a sudden turn whether due to a time jump or loss of a character. What are some movies that you enjoyed up to a point and they just fell apart for one reason or another?
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Hancock is a big one. It had a really interesting premise, and it was handling that premise pretty well until that weird ass third act where we find out who he really is. Then it just falls apart.
Iron Man 3 is one that comes to mind. Everything up until Trevor reveals himself is a pretty solid character study that deals with the toll being a superhero can take on a person.
It isn't just that, but it is indicative of a shift in tone that just hurts the film.
Priest. Could've been an excellent movie but everything after the hive guardian at sola mira was awful. It's a shame because it was a visually awesome world and a great premise and Bettany and Urban are both solid actors. A total waste of an ending.
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Mortal Kombat 2's third act went off the rails. Brought down an otherwise beautifully crafted movie.
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- Hancock is possibly the worst offender on this topic in film history, though I will say a contender is...
-...Spectre. The opening tracking shot sequence and the train fight with Bautista are career highlights for 007, and the movie is shot beautifully throughout. Unfortunately, once James and Madelynne (spelling?) go to Ernst Cristoff Stavros Steve Andersen Blofeld-Oberhauser II's secret lair the movie's plot takes a nosedive with the Star Trek Into Darkness villain reveal and Bond turning into a super soldier with Robocop firearms accuracy.
- I will nominate Flight as having one of the best 1st acts in cinema and then devolving into a character drama/legal procedural in acts 2 and 3, though that is the premise of the whole movie. Possibly the best crash/disaster sequence in film thought at the beginning.
Didn't think about this one. Doesn't Gerard Butler take a massive heel turn and just start murdering everyone that even works with Jamie Foxx but didn't even have anything to do with his wife and kid's case? Or is it how Jamie Foxx outsmarted Butler?
Savages... had the most bitched out ending imaginable.... just when you thought they were gonna go there and let everybody die in a hail of gunfire fuelled by bad choices... its allllll just a dream or whatever the fu<k... Oliver Stone became a coward on the day he shot that
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