Since the dawn of cinema, movies have been built on the suspension of disbelief. They offer us heightened and fantastical stories that don't unfold in realistic ways, and few, if any, films are totally devoid of logic gaps, no matter how great they are. For example, Citizen Kane – often touted as the best features ever made – is built around a huge one: journalists try to work out the meaning of the titular character's last word… but no-one was in the room when he said it! Most stories don't make perfect sense when you look at them in a literal way, and that's OK. Nonetheless, there is a limit. Some plot holes are just too big to ignore and actually destroy the entire movie – just ask the following 20 films. Some are broken by a poorly-crafted inciting incident, others feature villainous plans that are constructed from one implausibility after another, and a particular one suffers from a story world that is conceptually broken. What they all have in common is that their plot holes completely destroyed them. As they show, disbelief can only be suspended so far.
Published: July 15, 2026 11:14 am
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