Fantastic finales.

Breaking Bad

Manifest

If you've not seen Mother!, approach with caution and don't be fooled by Jennifer Lawrence and Javier Bardem as the leads, it's one of the most messed up films I've ever seen. If you have, it's too late.

True story, I accidentally selected both Irreversible and Mother! for different 'movie dates', many years apart.

I have never seen either again, films nor dates.

The Shawshank Redemption is mawkish, cloying shite. Usual Suspects is up there. The Mist probably wins in terms of nasty gut punch endings, edging out Se7en. 

Inception (still the only time in my life when the cinema audience spontaneously broke into applause at the end)

Inception was an awesome movie throughout, but I wouldn’t have singled out the ending for special praise. 

+1 for Breaking Bad. And adding Better Caul Saul. 

That’s interesting iregistered because I think it’s the culmination of every aspect of the plot and the crescendo of Hans Zimmer’s music with that paired perfectly with final piecing note of Time

The ending of Inception was breathtakingly good. The fact that nerds have picked it apart for years afterwards and studied the film obsessively seeking the answer to the question it poses just proves it. 

The film is full of plot holes and the mechanics around time and waking from dreams is a bit clunky and broken but it doesn't matter.