The 10 Best Movie Twist Endings of the Decade
2. The Prestige (2006)
The set-up: Two bitter rival magicians in early 20th Century London -- Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman) and Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) -- outwit and confound one another with their teleportation illusions.
The twist: Borden achieves his by the use of a twin brother with whom he shared one life -- a secret known to no one, including their shared wife and mistress, each being the love of one brother. Angier, meanwhile, discovers the secret to cloning on a visit to Nikola Tesla's Colorado laboratories. His illusion drowns a clone once per performance.
1. Memento (2000)
The set-up: Leonard (Guy Pearce) -- an ex- insurance fraud investigator with a head trauma that prevents him from retaining memories -- searches for the man who raped and murdered his wife during a burglary; he uses a series of handwritten notes, tattoos, and photographs to guide him. It's told in reverse.
The twist: Leonard accidentally killed his wife, and was being manipulated into killing criminals by Teddy (Joe Pantoliano). Faced with the grim reality, Leonard chooses instead to ignore it, and tattoos Teddy's license plate on him -- keeping the chase going and making Teddy his next mark.
And finally, click on to find our Grand Prize-winning choice for Best Twist Ending of the Decade...
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i must ask where is the usual suspects!?
Usual Suspects was prior to 2000.
where is witness for the prosecution,the game,chinatown
what about shutter island
Because Shutter Island is not only a terrible movie with a terrible twist, it's a twist you can see coming from the first five minutes.
The Departed Is definitely my favourite!! It gets me every time!
come on! Saw deserves a place on this list! a minor character only mentioned once as dieing turns out to be the true master mind?? wtf
thank for info, i love twist ending movie.. and i find it in here
A few good twist endings in this past decade are The Sixth Sense (qualifies since it's from 1999), Orphan, The Univited and Devil.
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Gwiz, epic ending, that was a twist!
The kidnapping in Gone Baby Gone was set up by the child's uncle and a police detective, not the mother's boyfriend.
What about Million Dollar Baby for a shocking ending?
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