The craziest, most unpredictable endings of recent movies.
How a movie ends is so important because it can forever change the way the audience sees it as a whole.
Hit the bottom of the park and you’ll have fans for life, but screw it up at the finish line and all that good work beforehand can be for naught.
And then there are those endings that just come completely out of left field, wildly subverting our expectations and serving up something we could never have expected for better or worse.
And that’s absolutely the case with these 10 recent movies, each of which ended in a way that no one predicted beforehand.
From wild cameos to tonally terrifying climaxes, insane departures into body horror and everything in between, these films made sure to end in a way that was, above all else, intensely memorable.
Whether these last-minute shocks worked or not, they at least saw the filmmakers swing for the fences and try to do something challenging, rather than just lean back on staid convention.
In an age where media-savvy moviegoers so often feel streets ahead of the movies they watch – especially with modern marketing showing us way ahead of the times – it’s nice to be reasonably surprised…
10. Jason Momoa Outta Nowhere – The Fall Guy
Who among us doesn’t love a wacky cameo out of nowhere?
Well, The Fall Guy had us all covered at the end of the movie when action star Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) is arrested for trying to frame his trusted stuntman Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) for murder.
The film ends with a trailer for the movie Ryder was working on – a Rebel Moon -like piece of schlock called Metalstorm, directed by Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt) – except Ryder has now been replaced by Jason Momoa of all of the people.
The trailer hilariously introduces Momoa as an “MTV Best Kiss” contender, before we’re treated to several cameos of Momoa mugging for the camera, dropping ridiculous one-liners, and kicking a whole ton of ass.
Momoa clearly brings a completely different energy to the part than Ryder, and dare we say, he definitely seems more suited to the campy space opera vibe the trailer gives off.
But if you keep watching through the credits, the gag gets even better, as a mid-credits scene reveals that Tom wasn’t just arrested — he accidentally set off some fireworks while trying to escape the authorities, blowing himself up kinks in the process.
