The Usual Suspects
We may all love action movies and romance films but let's face it there's nothing better that a big fat twist at the end of a movie that you didn't always see coming.
And over the years movies have produced some absolute corkers that have had us punching the air thinking the whole thing was genius or screaming at the screen that we had seen it coming a mile off.
So here at FemaleFirst we took a look at some of cinema's best twists, and be warned it does contain spoilers.
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Story: Following a truck hijack in New York, five conmen are arrested and brought together for questioning. As none of them is guilty, they plan a revenge operation against the police.
The operation goes well, but then the influence of a legendary mastermind criminal called Keyser Söze is felt.
It becomes clear that each one of them has wronged Söze at some point and must pay back now. The payback job leaves 27 men dead in a boat explosion, only Verbal Kint survives and he is brought in by police for questioning.
But the real question arises now: Who actually is Keyser Söze?
Twist: Kint is Soze and the whole story he tells the police is made up
Saw (2004)
Story: A young man named Adam wakes to find himself chained to a rusty pipe inside a decrepit subterranean chamber. Chained to the opposite side of the room is another bewildered captive, Dr. Lawrence Gordon.
Between them is a dead man lying in a pool of blood, holding a .38 in his hand. Neither man knows why he has been abducted, but instructions left on a microcassette order Dr. Gordon to kill Adam within eight hours.
If he fails to do so, then both men will die; Dr. Gordon's wife, Alison, and his daughter will also be killed. Recalling a recent murder investigation by a police detective named Tapp, Dr. Gordon realizes he and Adam are the next victims of a psychopathic genius known only as Jigsaw
With only a few hours left to spare, they must unravel the elaborate puzzle of their fate in the midst of mounting terror. The killer has provided them with only a few clues and two handsaws--too weak to break their steel shackles, but strong enough to cut through flesh and bone.
Twist: The man on the floor is Jigsaw and he is alive
Fight Club (1999)
Story: The mundane existence of a product liability evaluator and insomniac, who is addicted to self-help groups, is turned upside down when he meets a sado-masochistic anarchist, named Tyler Durden, who is secretly plotting to overthrow civilization.
As their friendship grows, they become increasingly involved in a secret society of "fight clubs" where men act out their aggressions and violently beat one another to a pulp.
In the meantime, the evaluator falls in love with a woman who is also addicted to self-help groups, but is unable to act on his desire for her.
Twist: The narrator and Tyler Durden are the same person
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Story: 8-year-old Cole Sear is haunted by a dark secret: he is visited by ghosts. A reluctant channel, Cole is frightened by visitations from those with unresolved problems who appear from the shadows.
Confused by his paranormal powers, Cole is too young to understand his purpose and too afraid to tell anyone about his anguish, except child psychologist Dr. Malcolm Crowe.
As Dr. Crowe tries to uncover the ominous truth about Cole's supernatural abilities, the consequences for client and therapist are a jolt that awakens them both to something harrowing and unexplainable.
Twist: Malcolm Crowe is dead
Planet of the Apes (1968)
Story: In the year 3978 AD a spaceship with a crew of 4 crashes down on a distant planet. One of the crew members had died in space and the other 3 head out to explore the planet.
They soon learn that the planet is much like their own and they find that it is inhabited by intelligent apes.
Twist: It is the future Planet Earth after an atomic war.
Other noticeable great twists include Psycho, The Empire Strikes back, The Village, Identity, The Crying Game and Primal Fear.
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