Plot twists can make or break a film. It can either sum a long-held suspicion throughout an entire film or just completely pull the rug from underneath you. Whether you love them or hate them, they're always the one thing people talk about when it comes to their favourite films. We've pulled together our five favourite plot-twists. Spoilers ahead if you haven't seen any of these!
5. SIXTH SENSE - "I see dead people..."
M. Night Shyamalan has seriously taken a nose-dive in terms of quality lately, but his first film - and arguably his best - took just about everyone by surprise. When little Haley Joel Osment uttered those four words, little did he know he was unleashing what's now become a byword for plot twists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUYKSWQmkrg
4. ATONEMENT - "I gave Robbie & Cecelia the time they deserved."
Joe Wright's heart-breaking film of unrequited love and loss ends with a tearful confession by an elderly Briony (Vanessa Redgrave) that Robbie (James McAvoy) and Cecelia (Keira Knightley) never reunited and that they died apart and alone. Not a dry eye in the house.
3. BODY HEAT - "What if she's been using this other girl's name?"
Before Kathleen Turner famously played Chandler Bing's transsexual dad in Friends, she vamped it up in this absolutely filthy noir thriller. Playing the devious Matty Walker, she manages to twist her lover, William Hurt, into killing her husband. But the really clever bit? She fakes her own death and makes off with all the money. Sound familiar? That's 'cause Wayne's World 2 pretty much copied the same idea from Body Heat. Which, in turn, copied it from Double Indemnity. It's copies all the way down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RvIwOa6xQ4
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2. SHUTTER ISLAND - Basically, the whole film
Martin Scorsese's gothic crime drama set on a fictional prison island is one of the best films he's made in the last ten years. But wow, was this film confusing. You start off thinking it's a prison. No, it's a test facility. No, it's all Leonard DiCaprio's imagination. No, it's actually a prison. No, Leonardo DiCaprio is actually the killer. Or is he? Mind. Melted.
1. THE USUAL SUSPECTS - "And just like that, he's gone."
Kevin Spacey plays Verbal Kint, the enigmatic, cerebral palsy-suffering criminal who is - in actual fact - the criminal mastermind, Keyser Soze, behind the entire film. The script was so complex that when Gabriel Byrne initially read it, he thought his character was Keyser Soze. The role earned Spacey an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor and launched Bryan Singer's career. A modern classic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5k73jx2mIc
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