The ending to War.
Okay, stay with me on this. You know how all the advertisements for War have pretty much been Jet Li Vs. Jason Statham. The poster is Statham and Li staring at each other all mean like, the trailer is Statham and Li growling and threatening each other... so you'd expect the ending would be Statham fighting Li, right?
This is why I hate screenwriters sometimes.
So, Jason Statham is an FBI agent whose partner is jumped by an assassin named Rogue. Rogue kills the partner's family in front of him, then kills the partner. Jason Statham swears vengeance and three years later Rogue shows up again, so It's On.
Now, you think that'd be good enough. But no. There's a really annoying Yojimba/Fistful of Dollars rip-off where Rogue plays the Yakuza and the Triads off against each other, getting several innocent people and FBI agents killed in the process. Eventually, it turns out that he's part of a complicated Triad triple-cross that no one cares about, because we came here to see Statham fight Li, right?
Oh ho ho, NO! Because as it turns out, after the wife and kid died, Jason Statham's partner escaped and overpowered Rogue, then killed him and took his place. He got plastic surgery to look like Jet Li and went through this entire convoluted scheme just to get close enough to the guy who ordered his family's hit (although he's so badass throughout the film, often taking on dozens upon dozens of professional hitmen at a time, that you wonder why he even bothers). So the partner/Rogue is about to kill the Triad boss when the crimelord tells him that Statham betrayed his partner and told Rogue where the family was.
That's right. Statham, who we've been rooting for the entire movie, is the bad guy and Jet Li, who we've been hating on the entire movie, is the good guy. So Jet Li and Statham have a perfunctory fight for about thirty seconds (in case you're wondering, the fight in The One was longer. So Jet Li has a harder time fighting HIMSELF than The Transporter) and then Statham dies taking a bullet for Li because he only thought his partner was going to get roughed up, not assassinated. End of movie.
It sucks even worse than it sounds.
**** you, War.