The 10 Best Movie Twist Endings of the Decade
Our cornucopia of decade's end lists continues now with the Twist List: The best twist-endings and third-act mindf*cks from the last ten years. They're the cherries on your Manoj sundae, and they're after the jump.
10. Identity (2003)
The set-up: A group of ten strangers are stranded at a Nevada motel during a thunderstorm. Meanwhile, a psychopath awaits trial at a mental institution.
The twist: The strangers are all multiple personalities of the psychopath, each being killed off in his mind by the true homicidal personality: Timmy York, a quiet boy who had faked his own death earlier.
9. The Departed (2006)
The set-up: Irish-Catholic Boston boy Colin Sullivan (Matt Damon) is raised by mobster Frank Costello (Jack Nicholson) to become a mole in the Massachusetts State Police. Meanwhile a force graduate (Leonardo DiCaprio) is convinced to become an undercover agent infiltrating Costello's inner circle.
The twist: Having executed a seemingly perfect crime with no witnesses, Sullivan returns home expecting to find his psychiatrist girlfriend Madolyn. Instead, Staff Sergeant Sean Dignam (Mark Wahlberg) is waiting for him, and puts a bullet in his head.
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how can "the others" not be mentioned? the best twist ever!!
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how can you not mention "the others" its the best twist in any movie!!
Did you read the article?
umm the others is meantioned in this....
I enjoyed the ending act of "Shattered" (1991).
See the fabulous Ewa Da Cruz stun the audience in the final twist in Dogs Lie.
Sleepaway Camp? No?
what about fight club??
I concur with Fight Club - but you forgot the biggest twist ending movie of all... The Sixth Sense! And why were we Rick Roll'd? Is that supposed to be the articles own twit.. er, "twist"? Dumb.
How can you not include "Saw?" I mean, THE "DEAD" GUY ON THE FLOOR IS JIGSAW!
The original Saw is my favorite ending ever
Apparently majority of the people here has no idea of what a decade is.
1) The kidnapping in "Gone, Baby, Gone" was perpetrated by the child's uncle, who was the brother of her mother.
2) Leonard may or may not have killed his wife in "Memento". That is open to interpretation. The Nolan brothers don't agree on some parts of "Momento", which I believe to be whether or not Leonard killed his wife.
3. The Rick Roll at the end was totally stupid.
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Jokes on you, I like the Rick Roll song.
Personally liked The Machinist, guess it's worthy. But all the given movies are nice.
Ink should be put in here
Where is Usual Suspect?? LOL! the best twist ever....
no mention of "the sixth sense".
What about the "Shutter Island?" That movie was great, but unfortunately it's very underrated.
Vanilla Sky had a novel twist at the end; way to go Tom!
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This is a list for a decade (presumably 2002-2012). If we were to go outside that window, I would put down Fight Club and American Psycho as having some of the greatest twist endings in film.
'High Tension' has a terrible twist ending. If your 'twist' renders the rest of the film nonsensical, it's a bad twist. Ditto 'Identity.' 'The Village,' who's twist you can see coming several reels away, also renders much of what precedes it nonsensical, most notably the townspeople's manner of speaking. 'The Prestige' has what is absolutely the worst twist ending I think I've ever seen in a film and 'Memento's' twist made me actively angry at it.
I would argue that 'The Departed' is not a twist ending at all. Merely a coda.
'The Others' and 'The Orphanage' are the only two on this list that offer true twist endings that both satisfy and solidify the overall storytelling.
what about Primal Fear with Richard Gere and Edward Norton and Sixth Sense, which to me was the original to the Others.
oh... nevermind... decade.
That's not the twist in Memento. It's not clear at the end whether Teddy is lying or not, so the audience doesn't actually know for sure if Leonard killed his wife or if Teddy is trying to cover his ass. The twist at the end is that no matter what the truth is, Leonard is willing to lie to himself so he can continue hunting down his wife's attacker, which is the only thing driving his life forward.
Ben, that's precisely the twist I'm referring to. Teddy's revelation isn't really a twist at all but Leonard's "twist" is so freaking annoying it irritated the hell out of me.
Some of you people should have continued on with school after the 6th grade !
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