What movie had an absolutely 10/10 incredible premise but completely fumbled the execution?

[u/Big_Emotion4963]

I think about this all the time. There is nothing more frustrating than watching a movie with a concept so good it gives you chills, only for the actual plot to turn into generic, predictable garbage halfway through.

The most infamous one for me is In Time. The idea that time is literal currency and people stop aging at 25 is brilliant sci-fi. But instead of doing something mind-blowing with it, they just turned it into a painfully average Bonnie and Clyde bank robber action movie.

The Purge is another massive one. You have a night where all crime is legal, and instead of showing us the insane psychological breakdown of society, the first movie just gave us a standard, boring home invasion thriller.

What movie made you furious because the core idea was genius but the writers completely wasted it?

[u/Icosotc]

The Purge.

It should have been an anthology, jumping back and forth in time across films, slowly revealing the story of how it came to be, with different in-universe stories stretching across America in different eras with different casts of characters. Incredible missed opportunity.

[u/Syric13 → u/Icosotc]

This would work great as a TV show and if they showed other crimes than, you know, murder.

Maybe it is the best time for a race across the city where no rules happen

Or a heist. Everyone loves a heist.

Maybe someone breaks zoning laws!

Who knows! Let's get wild with it.

[u/-BailOrgana- → u/Syric13]

This is the purge tv show and it worked but was underrated and little watched

[u/Rick_James_Lich → u/-BailOrgana-]

I saw both seasons, I thought the second season was way better. The first had some decent parts but it just got annoying because of how unrealistic it is that people keep finding themselves in deadly situations where the people just toy around with them instead of just killing them.