Best ending to a film of all time *spoilers*

it was strange that that got so many people - i knew there was a twist, but didn't know what it was. but as you say, we see willis get shot in the first scene. like, "hellooo!"

Iain
 
As mentioned The Butterfly Effect, Donnie Darko, The Usual Suspects but also Memento had a killer ending, I was kinda expecting it but it just blew me away when I watched it.
 
No, as it is shown, he is shot in the first scene and it is to the credit of the director that the fact that Willis only talks to the boy is so well disguised as he appears with other people but doesn't actually interact with them. The DVD covers this really well.

Maybe you're just cleverer than me...... ;)
 
Some great ones already selected (Donnie Darko, Leon, Chinatown)

Evil Dead 2
Ash gets sucked into the vortex
Evil Dead 3 (director's cut)
Ash goes too far forward in time
 
There will be no credit for M. Night Shamblesman in this forum.

Utter drivel most of his stuff. the Sixth Sense is a good film, but he now tries for a twist in every way, even when it doesn't manage to hide his average, at best, direction.
 
I was reminded about the film "Seven" an another thread. The ending to this totally took me aback. I was not expecting that at all. A very clever ending, if a slightly disturbing film overall. We saw it on its opening weekend and I couldn't help think about that film for days afterwarRAB.

I can't help but think though that the whole ending scenario is rather unrealistic.
If John Doe had committed crimes as extreme as this, it's highly unlikely a police force would send 2 police officers out with the offender in a car to an unknown location where an unknown set of events were plainly going to take place. OK there was the helicopter crew monitoring things from above but they weren't even expecting a bomb. And I seriously doubt an officer of Detective Somerset's experience would open a box himself delivered in that way.
 
It's true, he got lucky with Sixth Sense but his films seem to be getting worse not better. I couldn't believe Unbreakable, just as it started getting good.. it finished.

Endings; 'A Touch of Evil' because Marlene Dietrich gets the last line and then wanders off into the night. Welles persuaded her out of retirement for that film so that's the last we see of her on celluoid. Classy exit.
 
too many too mention but the first couple that spring to mind are

Donnie Darko (the wavey hand bit)
Smoke (the bit when Auggie Wren tells his christmas story to a Tom Waits soundtrack)
Rear Window
 
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