He Was a Quiet Man

It was probably the most common and boring type of a twist, and it turned out the movie wasn't about what I though it was about, even though what I thought it was about would've been much more interesting than what he movie eventually was about. How lame.

Why do filmmakers these days use crappy twist endings? Don't they have enough trust in their skills, so they feel they need to impress the audience with stupid gimmicks? I thought the story in He Was a Quiet Man was quite interesting as it was, but then the director/writer just ruined it by pulling the rug from under everything that had happened before.

Nobody's seen it?

Never heard of it.

Looks like it only played for three days in three theaters in the U.S. Made a total of $2,431.

I just read about this in the AV Club's "Direct to DVD Purgatory" section:

A woefully derivative though reasonably compelling mash-up of seemingly every major cult film of the past decade, Quiet Man begins where Taxi Driver ends: with a deranged lunatic accidentally becoming a hero. Here, Slater’s dead-eyed cubicle drone rockets up the corporate ladder after he ends with extreme prejudice the deranged, Columbine-style killing spree of a nutjob co-worker. The twist? Slater killed the man with a gun he brought to work to launch an insane killing spree of his own. It’s not Slater’s fault really: evil talking CGI goldfish told him to do it.

Slater then strikes up an unlikely friendship with Elisha Cuthbert, a sexy striver on the fast track to upper management before a bullet to the spine sent her on a one-way trip to wheelchair city. Cuthbert wants Slater to help her commit suicide but gosh darn it if he doesn’t fall for her in the process. William H. Macy lends indelible support as Slater’s boss but the film would be stronger if Slater and Macy switched roles. Macy has a way of making anxious losers unforgettable while Slater engages in something like geek minstrelry. He’s all self-defeating body language, mumbly line readings, Poindexter glasses and unflattering facial hair. It’s not a bad performance necessarily, just one we’ve all seen before. The same goes for the film itself: it’s watchable enough and suitably stylish. But in a world where Office Space, Fight Club, American Beauty and Taxi Driver are all readily available why bother with an inferior knock-off?
Just How Bad Is It?Not bad necessarily, just frustratingly unoriginal.

I agree that the movie was kind of a weird mix of Office Space, Fight Club, and Taxi Driver, but it's not as derivative as the article makes it sound. Before the ending it had gone into an interesting direction not seen in any of those other films... The relationship between Slater and Cuthbert really was the most compelling and original part, at the same time sweet and unnerving, and it was really the centerpiece of the whole film.

Maybe I was a bit harsh in my previous post: the twist ending comes so late it doesn't destroy everything that preceded it, but it really is the lamest kind of twist imaginable. I agree that Macy was underused in the movie, but Slater's character really was quite arresting, even if it had of the stereotypical "neurotic middle-aged loser" features.

"most of the stereotypical"