Seraphim Falls (2006)

Director: David Von Anken

Until the last 20 minutes or so, Seraphim Falls is an enjoyable, if slight, Western thriller in which one guy (Liam Neeson) chases another (Pierce Brosnan) across the country - and that's pretty much it. After a revelatory flashback sequence, however, the film takes a bizarre, mystical left turn, with the brief appearance of a wise and quirky Native American character that might as well have been nicked out of Jarmusch's Dead Man, and Morticia Addams herself, Angelica Huston.

It's as if Von Anken either a) thought such an approach would lift the film in its final scenes from mediocrity into the realm of rich, symbolic Greatness, or b) panicked when having to come up with a conclusion and thought "I'll just put in a load of weird shit". Whatever, it certainly doesn't come off, though the (fairly severe) failed attempt does lend the film an odd sort of distinction.