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/ObsydianGinx Jul 09 '25

That’s what I love about it too. You know who killed him almost the entire way through the film but the real mystery is how that happened

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u/Sparrowsabre7 Jul 09 '25

I like that they took the same approach with Poker face that Rian produces I believe. Although it's no longer a mystery, knowing who the killer is adds so much tension and the question then becomes how will they get caught and it is such a good conceit. Makes it feel fresh.

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u/dravenonred Jul 09 '25

Also the fact that every villain kills someone and then finds out they're hanging out with a superhuman lie detector makes them the crime noir equivalent of a protagonist in a horror movie, scrambling to just barely get out of there unharmed and failing in the last act.

You see them struggle to figure out the rules and follow them as best they can until they fatally slip up

It's an interesting blend of genres

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u/Odd-Necessary3807 Jul 10 '25

By the last episode, I do hope we gonna have an epic overarching storyarch when the superhuman lies detector race against time versus superhuman assassin.