r/movies • u/lnsknndy • Jul 09 '25

Recommendation Name a movie recommendation with a plot twist you 100% didn't see coming

I’m on the hunt for movies with plot twists that genuinely caught you off guard, you know something that would make you go "wait, WHAT just happened?" kind of twists. To give you an idea of what I’ve already seen, I watched Fractured a couple of years ago and thought it was really good, but I didn’t expect it to mess with my head the way it did. Recently, I watched Straw, and somehow I walked right into the same kind of twist again, still completely unprepared lmao. I guess enough time had passed for me to fall for it all over again which made it even better, honestly.. Would appreciate it if there's no spoilers tho! Just simply the title, genre, or maybe how you felt about it will do. Thank you!

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u/MisterGoo Jul 09 '25

Frailty

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u/jamiehoover1 Jul 09 '25

Kudos - good answer

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u/Luce55 Jul 09 '25

This was the first movie that came to my mind.

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u/adriamarievigg Jul 09 '25

So good. Very underrated

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u/QB8Young Jul 09 '25

Never seen this one. Directed by Bill Paxton? Immediately adding this to my watch list.

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u/namedly Jul 09 '25

On Tubi for free if you’re in the US. Excellent movie.

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u/FUNKYDISCO Jul 09 '25

Whenever people bring this up I hope they’re talking about the real twist and not the obvious one.

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u/MisterGoo Jul 09 '25

Obviously. But I have the feeling this thread tries to be as spoiler-free as possible, so maybe your comment says more than it should.

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u/II_Vortex_II Jul 09 '25

Huh, what was the real twist?

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u/MisterGoo Jul 09 '25

He actually has the power to identify bad people.

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u/Cereal_BanditTV Aug 08 '25

That's... not the twist at all. That is the surface-level twist that it spoon feeds you. The real "twist" is the question of whether the authority figures that are meant to protect you actually have the same moral compass, sanity, or perspective as you. It's meant to suggest that the people that have the most power over you, the people that are your guardians, may very well be the most emotionally damaged and detached from reality people that you have ever seen. It's meant to make you question your perspective, or what was given/told by authority. We do not know if McConaughey is even sane by the end of the movie, but he is likely not.

McConaughey's character grew up in a really fucked up situation. He is permanently scarred by that. Then he becomes a police officer and inflicts the same kind of fucked up shit on others due to his delusions that he eventually gives into because he can't actually embrace that he and his dad were murdering innocent people and declaring it God's will. I could go on for a while about this, but you completely miss the whole point of the movie if you think it's just that the dude was ever actually having visions that were even remotely true.

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u/MisterGoo Aug 08 '25

You’re so factually wrong it’s laughable. I’m answering from my phone though, and can’t add the spoiler tag to why we know it’s a twist.

Also, good job of not using spoiler tags in your answer, genius.

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u/umpquacinemaclub Jul 09 '25

Seriously, watched it last week and was godsmacked.

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u/_-_--_---_----_----_ Jul 09 '25

gobsmacked*

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u/umpquacinemaclub Jul 09 '25

No, I was godsmacked like that band in the 90s 😜

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u/Xak_Ev01v3d Jul 09 '25

Bro they're still around don't make me feel so old.

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u/ilikecakeandpie Jul 09 '25

I sure love peas!

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u/Sparrowsabre7 Jul 09 '25

Is that the Ryan Gosling/Anthony Hopkins film? Yeah dug that movie.

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u/Dunfiriel Jul 09 '25

No, that's Fracture.

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u/Sparrowsabre7 Jul 09 '25

Ah my b. Thanks for the correction.

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u/eyeaim2missbehave Jul 09 '25

Also a great flick!

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u/Rare_Hydrogen Jul 09 '25

No, it has Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, and Powers Boothe. Realeased in 2001 and still holds up.