Top 10 Movie Plot Twists of the Last Decade
Didn't see these ones coming! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the best movie plot twists seen between 2014 and 2023. It also isn’t a twist that there will be big spoilers.
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00:00 "You live in a certain place."
00:02 Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the best movie plot twists
00:08 seen between 2014 and 2023. We'll only include live-action films. It also isn't a twist that
00:16 there will be big spoilers. "To fake a convincing murder you have to have discipline."
00:20 Number 10. Adelaide is the doppelganger. Us. "There was another girl in there."
00:27 "She looked like me. Exactly like me."
00:35 This horror film began with a young Adelaide having a terrifying encounter with her doppelganger.
00:41 So, we understood why the protagonist was horrified to see her sinister double again
00:45 over 30 years later. But it turned out we didn't know Adelaide as well as we thought.
00:51 In the film's final minutes, it's revealed that the protagonist we were following the entire time
00:56 was actually the doppelganger. "I never stopped thinking about you. How things could have been.
01:05 How you could have taken me with you." It turned out the double locked Adelaide away and assumed
01:13 her identity when they were kids. This twist immediately made us want to go back and re-watch
01:18 the film for clues of this turn. "My whole life I've...I felt like she's still coming for me."
01:29 But more importantly, the reveal made it impossible for us to say who was the true
01:34 hero and unquestionable villain of Us. Number 9. Tyler knew about the deadly dinner. The menu.
01:42 Margot thought the pretentious Tyler had just hired her to attend an extravagant meal.
01:47 Unfortunately for her, the head chef running the dinner had made plans to kill every one of his
01:52 guests. "Let me live?" "Let you live? No. Of course not. Can't you see that that had ruined the menu?"
02:01 While his murderous intent was surprising on its own, viewers were hit with another
02:05 appalling confession after the killing started. It's revealed that Tyler always knew about the
02:10 sinister nature of this dinner. The admission that he hired Margot just to guarantee he could
02:15 attend the fatal meal enraged both her and the audience. "That's just because you don't offer
02:19 seating for one." "So you hired her knowing she died?" "Yes." "I don't need that!" Although Chef
02:31 Sloic is still the biggest villain of the movie, Tyler was more malicious than we could have ever
02:36 expected. Thankfully, the despicable man got his just desserts in the end. "You are why the mystery
02:44 has been drained from our art. You see that now, don't you?" "Sorry, Chicago."
02:52 In this sci-fi movie, a programmer named Caleb is asked to test to see if a robot with artificial
03:09 intelligence named Ava could pass as human. During their talks, she keeps hinting that her creator
03:15 Nathan is an evil jailer. A sympathetic Caleb decides to betray the human who made Ava so she
03:20 can escape. "Caleb, you have to help me." "I'm going to. We're getting out of here tonight."
03:28 After the AI successfully kills her creator, it looked like she'd walk away into the sunset with
03:33 her human ally. But Ava decided to lock Caleb away while she escaped into the real world alone.
03:39 This cruel twist allowed the AI to move among humanity without anyone suspecting a thing.
03:49 Meanwhile, Caleb realized that he failed a test he didn't even know he was taking.
03:55 Number 7. Harlan Never Had To Die - Knives Out. "You know, I don't fear death. But oh God,
04:03 I'd like to fix some of this before I go." While many murder mysteries wait until the last second
04:10 to expose the villain, one winding tale took a different approach. Around 40 minutes into
04:15 Knives Out, a flashback showed the kind nurse Marta accidentally giving her patient Harlan
04:20 a fatal dose of morphine. He then decides to take his own life so she wouldn't be accused of murder.
04:25 "Now if what you said is true, I'm gone. There's no saving me. We have six minutes.
04:30 We have got to get you out of this." After covering up this incident,
04:35 Marta learns that she was 100% guiltless. It's revealed that Harlan's grandson Ransom tried to
04:41 trick the nurse into administering too much morphine. However, Marta had given her patient
04:46 the right medication all along. "You gave him the correct medication because you are a good nurse."
04:53 "Then Harlan was..." "I'm sorry Marta, but yes, Harlan was perfectly fine."
05:01 This stunning turn instantly made Harlan's death hit harder. His senseless death elevated what
05:07 could have been another murder mystery into a tragic tale for the ages.
05:16 "My mother was a very secretive and private woman. She had private rituals, private friends,
05:23 private anxieties." Shortly after Annie Graham's mysterious mother Ellen died,
05:29 she lost her daughter Charlie. The matriarch finally found comfort after she met a woman
05:34 named Joan. This new ally even showed Annie how to reach her deceased daughter in the afterlife.
05:39 "First, light the candle, then choose an item that belonged to your daughter.
05:44 That would be your link. Mine was the chalkboard. That's my link. It's all right, it's all right."
05:51 Unfortunately for Annie, conducting a second seance kicks off a series of horrifying
05:56 supernatural events. In the midst of their suffering, Mrs. Graham realizes that her
06:00 friend Joan had ill intentions the whole time. This new ally also happened to be part of a
06:05 coven that Annie's mom used to lead. These twin revelations made the story even more
06:10 compelling and tragic than it had been. No matter what the Grahams did, they were always doomed to
06:16 suffer. "I know you don't trust me and there is nothing I can do about that. But they put a curse
06:21 on us when we brought Charlie back. We made a pact with something. Something that is in this house,
06:26 I don't know what it is." Number five. Hydra agents hid within SHIELD. Captain America,
06:31 the Winter Soldier. "Hydra died with the red scar." "Cut off one head, two more shall take its place."
06:38 "Prove it." Although this spy thriller is full of terrific twists, its biggest swerve impacted an
06:44 entire universe of movies. The massive turn occurs after Captain America learns that there may be a
06:50 traitor hiding in the heroic organization SHIELD. After some investigation, he learns that villainous
06:56 Hydra operatives have been planted at virtually every level of the good agency. "The new Hydra
07:01 grew a beautiful parasite inside SHIELD. For 70 years, Hydra has been secretly feeding crisis."
07:13 Cap is then forced to break SHIELD apart to expose the evil lurking within. After this plot point
07:18 made Winter Soldier more thrilling, Hydra agents reared their ugly heads in other Marvel projects.
07:24 The excellent reveal ensured that we would think twice before trusting anyone in this universe
07:29 again. "Strike and Insight crew are Hydra as well. I don't know how many more, but I know they're in
07:35 the building. They could be standing right next to you." Number four. The hidden house guest, Parasite.
07:55 It was hilarious to see members of the Kim family lie and get multiple people fired so they could
07:59 all work at a wealthy home. But we got concerned when a recently let go housekeeper named Moon Kwon
08:05 returned to the rich home to get something from the basement. As it turned out, she had placed her
08:10 husband in a secret bunker under the house so he could hide from debt collectors.
08:15 This extremely sudden character debut set off a series of progressively darker twists that shaped
08:20 the rest of the film. It also completely shifted the tone of the movie from a con artist comedy
08:26 to a tense social thriller. After we descended into that basement, we were set down a path of no return.
08:33 Number three. Amy was never in danger. Gone Girl.
08:38 When Amy Dunn goes missing, she's the only one who can be found. And that's because she's the only one who can be found.
08:44 When Amy Dunn goes missing, her husband Nick seems clueless as to what could have happened. A series of flashbacks then shows us that there's no way she could have been found.
08:50 Number three. Amy was never in danger. Gone Girl.
08:54 When Amy Dunn goes missing, her husband Nick seems clueless as to what could have happened.
09:10 A series of flashbacks then shows us that there were deep cracks in their marriage.
09:15 As evidence piles up against Nick, we begin to suspect he wasn't as innocent as he seemed.
09:20 But everything changes around the halfway point of the film. Suddenly, it's revealed that Amy is
09:26 completely fine.
09:27 As an added kick to the gut, she's been framing her husband for her disappearance to get back at him.
09:42 This pivotal story beat throws everything we've seen into question, while making us hungry to
09:46 discover why Amy would concoct such a horrific scheme. Her sudden re-emergence ensured we'd be
09:52 glued to the screen up until the very end.
09:55 After a black man named Chris arrives at the white Armitage home, he finds himself at the center of
10:10 several anxiety-inducing incidents.
10:12 He eventually reaches a breaking point and convinces girlfriend Missy to leave the house.
10:23 But she decides not to give him the keys and leaves him to her vicious family.
10:28 It's only after Missy's shocking betrayal that we learn that the Armitages plan to implant
10:32 another person's consciousness into Chris's body.
10:35 "So you won't be gone. Not completely. A sliver of you will still be in there,
10:40 somewhere. Limited consciousness."
10:42 Additionally, we're told that the black characters we saw around the family home
10:46 already suffered that terrible fate. This game-changing story beat made every scene that
10:51 came before feel more sinister. Get Out became a much more horrifying experience once you knew
10:57 Chris's instincts were dead on.
10:59 "You'll be me."
11:00 "Good."
11:02 "Good. You got it quick."
11:05 "Good on you."
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11:21 Number 1. Louise can travel through time.
11:26 Arrival
11:27 "I know something that's going to happen.
11:28 I can't explain how I know it, just do."
11:33 Throughout the sci-fi film, protagonist Louise keeps seeing increasingly vivid memories of a
11:39 daughter she tragically lost to disease. At the same time, the professional has to learn an alien
11:45 language to communicate with extraterrestrials. These two plot points finally intersected when
11:50 Louise privately talked to an alien. After witnessing another vivid memory in front of
11:54 the extraterrestrial, Louise reveals that she never had a daughter.
11:58 "I don't understand. Who is this child?"
12:02 It was then explained that her visions of her child were flash-forwards. Louise could peek
12:07 into the future because the alien language she learned allowed her to move her mind through time.
12:12 Unless you were Louise herself, there's no way you saw this brilliant reversal coming.
12:18 The twist enhanced the story, enriched the characters, and left us completely stunned.
12:24 "If you could see your whole life from start to finish,
12:26 would you change things?"
12:30 Which recent plot twist made your jaw drop? Shout it out in the comments.
12:35 "I told him something that he wasn't ready to hear."
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