Hypnotic might have one of the worst post-credits twists ever

polygon.com:

There’s a new Ben Affleck movie out this week, and chances are you probably don’t know about it. No, not the Nike drama Air, which made its debut on Prime Video recently. And no, he doesn’t cameo in his wife Jennifer Lopez’s new movie The Mother on Netflix.

I’m talking about Hypnotic, the new psychological thriller from director Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids, Machete), where Affleck plays a detective named Rourke searching for his lost daughter while also hunting down a master criminal who is able to hypnotize people to do his bidding.

If you didn’t know about it, you’re not alone. The movie opened at just over 2,000 theaters, with career-worst box office openings for both Affleck and Rodriguez. But we’re here to talk about the post-credits sequence, something that is still boggling my mind a few days later.

[Ed. note: Significant spoilers for Hypnotic follow.]

In Hypnotic, “hypnotics” can control other people’s actions by manipulating their sense of the world, through eye contact or a series of simple voice commands. At first, this is shown through William Fichtner’s character, who robs a bank in one of the movie’s first sequences.

A little more than halfway through the movie, it is revealed that Ben Affleck’s character is actually a powerful hypnotic who arranged for the kidnapping of his daughter and wiped his own memory, all for her protection. As the daughter of two powerful hypnotics, she is desired as a weapon by the government division tasked with hypnotics (inspiringly named “The Division”), and Rourke will go to extreme lengths to prevent her from being used in that manner. Unless he’s doing it, that is.

In the movie’s final act, Rourke, after regaining his memory, tracks down his daughter Minnie (Hala Finley) at