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SPOILER FOR THE TWIST.
For those who missed it... the twist was, that the main character's father - who we see him interacting with repeatedly through the course of the film, always around his female partner (he is on a wheelchair and it is assumed he needs her assistance in even the simplest of tasks.) - is actually dead, and being controlled like a puppet. The female partner has gutted him, and stuck a stick in the back where his spine would be located, which moves his jaw.
Not only did this has very little to do with the plotline, minus the fact that the movie had something to do with puppets, but it was also tacked on to the ACTUAL ending, VERY VERY VERY poorly. It's like... you read a novel and you have a beginning, middle, and end, and then all of a sudden you there is an additional 7 pages that feels like a misprint, because the fucking thing already ended the way it should have.
It's like, the movie ends in a somewhat satisfying manner, and then... it's not actually over. You get a 1.5 minute little "twist" scenario coming out of NOWHERE. It feels like an epilogue more then a continuation. It's just poor film-making. Again, it's as if they decided last minute to add this twist ending. "The film's not good enough to go to theatres. *shelves*" "B-but... I added this!" "Oooh. Twists = ticket sales! SEND OUT THE PRINTS! Oh, and reference SAW in the promotional material."
It ruined the whole film for me, it was just a cop-out.
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