The movie, which tells the story of bank robbers and the cops who are trying to stop them, spends much of its running time hyping up the genius of the robbery plot at its center. At times, it seems like the head robber, played by Clive Owen, is losing control of his carefully constructed plan. And because the cop in charge of stopping him is played by Denzel Washington, it can be pretty hard to imagine the robbery going successfully. In the end, though, our robber gets away with it.
He hides inside the bank for days after the initial robbery, waiting for the right moment to casually exit the building with all the money he's stolen.
It's a shockingly simple plan, one that only requires some determination on his part. Washington's cop steps away from the crime realizing there's an entire rigged system that he's operating within. At the end of the day, Owen's character gets away with it because the cop charged with stopping him stopped caring. Glass Samuel L. Jackson , the villain at the heart of Unbreakable , believes in the archetypes that comic books establish. He knows he's a villain, and that David Dunn Bruce Willis exists to oppose him.
The movie's twist isn't that Glass has pulled off some major scheme. What we discover is that he's been a terrorist this entire time, and that his ultimate goal was to uncover other people with special abilities like his. Glass gets away with his plot because he carries it out before the movie even really begins. He discovers David in the process, and while David ultimately imprisons him, he's actually doing exactly what Glass wants him to.
Glass's only goal was to find a hero to oppose him, and he's done that by discovering David. He never wanted to escape from his plan without consequences.
He wants to fulfill his comic book fantasy, with everything that might entail. Matt Damon has a range he doesn't get to show off much these days. In The Talented Mr. Ripley , though, we see Damon play a psychopath with chilling skill.
The movie follows Tom Ripley Damon , a low-class man who rises up the ranks of young high society in the s thanks to a relationship with Dickie Greenleaf Jude Law , a wealthy, aimless young man. Ultimately, Tom's love for and jealousy of Dickie proves too powerful, and he kills him at sea.
Instead of confessing to his crime, though, Tom takes over Dickie's life, and all of the wealth that it entails. Tom spends the rest of the film trying desperately not to get caught, and he succeeds. He gets away with that murder — and another one. Tom Ripley may not be a good person, but he is very good at what he does, and he proves that at the end of The Talented Mr. A Dutch import that was later remade as an American film starring Jeff Bridges and Kiefer Sutherland, The Vanishing is an effective thriller because of the toll it inflicts on a harmless protagonist.
When the two of them pull over at a rest stop, Saskia goes into the station to buy something and vanishes. Rex frantically searches for her, but is never able to find her. Years later, Rex is confronted by Saskia's kidnapper. Raymond Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu , the man who kidnapped and eventually killed Saskia, tells Rex that he knew from a young age that he didn't have any conscience. In fact, his decision to kidnap Saskia came as he was trying to determine whether doing bad things felt any different to him than doing good deeds.
Eventually, he tells Rex that the only way he'll be able to learn what happened to Saskia is by experiencing it himself.
The two return to the rest stop where Saskia originally vanished, and Raymond drugs Rex. When he wakes up, Rex finds that Raymond has buried him alive. Raymond, meanwhile, is living a quiet, peaceful life with his family. He's gotten away with two murders, and he doesn't feel a thing. It's hard to beat Satan. The Omen is a classic horror film for many reasons, but one is undoubtedly its bleak ending. The film tells the story of a couple who unknowingly adopt the antichrist, a young boy named Damien Harvey Spencer Stephens.
Unsurprisingly, the movie doesn't end on a particularly happy note. Robert Thorn, Damien's father, spends much of the movie trying to determine where his adopted son actually came from. Along the way, a number of people die under questionable circumstances. As the movie approaches its climax, Damien's adopted mother is killed by his nanny, and when Robert discovers that his wife has been murdered, he stabs the nanny to death. Then, he takes Damien to a church and places him on the altar, only to be shot down by police before he can kill his demonic son.
The movie ends with a joint funeral for Damien's adopted family, and Damien himself cracking a smile. By the end of The Omen , evil has conquered good, and everyone who knows what Damien really is has already ended up in the ground. When you watch Brazil , everything is not exactly what it seems.
The movie follows a low-level government worker named Sam Jonathan Pryce who spends much of his time thinking about a woman who comes to him in dreams.
Ultimately, Sam becomes embroiled in a complicated conspiracy after discovering that a bureaucratic error has led to the arrest and death of the wrong man. That discovery leads Sam down a path to find the woman he's been seeing in his dreams, who is named Jill Kim Greist. When he learns that Jill is considered a terrorist accomplice because she attempted to report the wrongful arrest, Sam falsifies records so she can escape.
After sharing a romantic night together, the two are arrested, and Sam is strapped to a chair where he is about to be tortured. Before the torture can begin, though, a resistance force breaks into the building and rescues Sam and Jill. In the movie's final moments, though, we learn that rescue mission was all a delusion of Sam's broken mind.
We see that he is still trapped to the chair, and it's heavily implied that he has been lobotomized. His torturers decide he's a lost cause, and leave him alone to sing to himself. Sam may dream of escaping the bureaucracy that controls every aspect of his life, but in reality, it's a system that's impossible to escape from. Another horror entry, Creep 's ending is dark and definitive. This found-footage film tells the story of Aaron Patrick Brice , a videographer who has been hired by a man named Josef Mark Duplass to film a video diary in a remote cabin.
Josef tells Aaron that he has an inoperable brain tumor, and wants to film a diary for his daughter, who will be born after he dies. Josef displays strange behavior throughout the movie, and Aaron ultimately receives a call from Josef's sister urging him to leave the house as soon as possible. The two scuffle, but Aaron gets away, and begins getting videotapes from Josef following his departure. Aaron realizes that Josef is stalking him, and Josef eventually offers to meet Aaron in a public park in order to make peace.
As a precaution, Aaron decides to keep a camera on himself. Josef comes up from behind Aaron while he's sitting on a bench and kills him with an axe. Josef reviews the footage Aaron collected following his death, and realizes that Aaron must have thought he was a good person.
Although that doesn't ultimately save his life, it does make Aaron Josef's favorite victim. The movie ends as Josef moves on to his next kill, and puts Aaron's film on the shelf with the rest of his victims.
The Empire Strikes Back. Life is Beautiful. The Crucible. Avengers: Infinity War. The Dark Knight. X-Men: First Class. The Wicker Man One of the greatest horror films of all time clinched its legacy with one of the most shocking finale sequences ever put onscreen. After spending an entire movie scouring the island of Summerisle for a missing girl, prim Sergeant Howie Edward Woodward at last finds her and tries to rescue her. As the villagers sing songs of revelry and Howie get engulfed in flames, the old gods triumph over the new, agrarian tradition defeats urban progress, and hope in a supreme, righteous force of good is lost.
A cynical New Yorker might read it as a cautionary tale: See all the terrible things that can happen when you talk to your neighbors? The Omen Would a movie kill a child? Usually not. Does it matter, though, if the child is the Antichrist? The police get their man in the end, but rarely has screen vengeance felt so hollow.
In the process, Amy tricks and kills another man; gets a police department to turn against its best detective; and ends up both pregnant with the baby she wanted and back together with the husband whose life she very nearly destroyed — which I guess is a win? As Verbal pieces together what happened in a police interrogation, director Bryan Singer tells the story in flashbacks, where we learn about the five felons including Gabriel Byrne and then-unknown Benicio del Toro who met in a seemingly random police lineup and decide to pull off the heist.
The narration is consistently unreliable, everyone onscreen seems to be both a patsy and a potential perpetrator, and the storytelling moves at such an insane pace that even when the truth comes out, you just have to applaud the villain for pulling it off. Brazil In a world defined by consumerism and terrorism, one man who works at the all-powerful Ministry of Information dares to buck the system in the pursuit of love and freedom.
Compare Team Rocket Wins , when the bad guys in question are usually so ineffectual the audience may actually be happy for them to catch a break. Can overlap with Godwin's Law of Time Travel. Also compare Meaningless Villain Victory , in which The Bad Guy Wins, but the victory is rendered hollow or meaningless or actually becomes a defeat due to some technicality or unforeseen chance. Near-Villain Victory is a typical subversion of the trope in which the bad guy does win for a time, only for the good guys to rebound and take that victory away.
Compare Pyrrhic Villainy when the villain's victory came at a great cost. This is NOT necessarily the same with Karma Houdini and Downer Ending , as there are plenty of happy endings where villains escape unscathed and a plenty of Downer Endings where the villains suffer as much as everyone. If the story lacks a villain , nature or the heroes' own flaws might defeat them instead. This is your last warning , only proceed if you really believe you can handle this list. The end of the game's first act sees Mordegon successfully obtain the power of the Heart of Yggdrasil which he uses to take over the world of Erdrea by stealing the Luminary's power.
Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account. It's not that horrible. A Toon Boom commercial has a movie shoot where this trope is supposed to happen, but one of the actors is distracted with his game. Theme Parks. However, when Jafar , the Evil Queen , Dr. Facilier , and Maleficent butt in to reap the reward for themselves, the five villains eventually agree to split the power evenly amongst each other.
At the end, the newfound Legion of Doom ultimately takes over Cinderella Castle, decorating the famous landmark with banners bearing their images. It's probably the only time where a Disney Park show ends with the villains outright taking over the universe.
Jafar: I have all the power of the cosmos! Evil Queen: Now I am the most powerful of them all! Facilier: Finally, my friends on the other side can't touch me. So yes, while the Toa managed to fulfill their mission set up eight real-world years before, namely to awaken the Great Spirit Mata Nui and thus save the universe, Makuta possessed Mata Nui's body in the nick of time.
Also counts as a Sudden Downer Ending , because this was all revealed in the final chapter of a novel and on the last pages of a comic, while everyone was celebrating. To a lesser extent, the Barraki. However, too late he realizes they used him to get the bomb inside the building. It explodes, fulfilling their plan and making it look like an innocent man was responsible.
The Mad Titan quickly proves himself to be a formidable enemy as he attempts to collect the Infinity Stones and wipe out half of the universe. The Avengers band together to take on Thanos and stop him from carrying out his horrible plan.
However, he proves to be too much for them and with a snap of his fingers, half of the universe, including some prominent heroes, are exterminated. The film ends with Thanos smiling, satisfied at accomplishing his mission. In David Fincher's Se7en , a brutal serial killer carries out horrific murders based on the seven deadly sins. As the killings progress, the two detectives, Somerset and Mills, find themselves no closer to stopping John Doe.
However, before the last two murders are complete, Doe turns himself in. He agrees to reveal the final two victims to the detectives based on sins "Envy" and "Wrath. In a rage, Mills executes John Doe, fulfilling his final two murders and completing Doe's twisted mission. In one of the greatest entries into the noir genre , the classic film Chinatown stars Jack Nicholson as Jack Gittes, a private detective investigating corruption at the highest level in Los Angeles.
He eventually targets the wealthy businessman Noah Cross and attempts to take him down.
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