Worst second/third acts in a film

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?

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.

Originally posted by jaden_2.0
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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Bad third acts.

Interstellar
Wonder Woman
The dark Knight rises
The village
Spider-Man 3
The wolverine
Wolverine origins
I am legend

Mortal Kombat 2's third act went off the rails. Brought down an otherwise beautifully crafted movie.

Originally posted by Dr Will Hatch
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.

Originally posted by Lord Lucien
Mortal Kombat 2's third act went off the rails. Brought down an otherwise beautifully crafted movie.

The whole movie went off the rails before it even started.

Originally posted by Kazenji
The whole movie went off the rails before it even started.

Law Abiding Citizen....worst third act in movie history.

The Star Wards ST.

Originally posted by Omac9
Law Abiding Citizen....worst third act in movie history.

Originally posted by Dr Will Hatch
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.

- 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.

Originally posted by Omac9
Law Abiding Citizen....worst third act in movie history.

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?

Originally posted by -Pr-
Iron Man 3 is one that comes to mind.

*vomits*

yeah...

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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