22 Movie Plots That Require Ridiculous Luck

These movies have more luck than a horseshoe stuffed with four-leaf clovers.
22 Movie Plots That Require Ridiculous Luck
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We get that for fiction to work, there needs to be a certain amount of serendipity and coincidence. But more often than not, movie plots rely on dumb, insane, implausible luck to succeed.

For example ...

Star Wars

22 Movie Plots That Require Ridiculous Luck
H E A T Lieutenant Hanna is investigating an armored car heist, with only the nickname 'Slick' to go on. That night, Hanna's informant, knowing nothin
In The Last Jedi, Finn and Rose get locked up and lose their opportunity to hire the Master. Codebreaker.. But luckily, right after that, they bump in

Zootopia

ZOoTOPIA Judy Hopps BIG saved a shrew from getting DONU crushed by a giant donut. That shrew turned out to be the daughter of the guy who's about to k

Ferris Bueller

Ferris is really lucky (Le glendev Bocsoy coran orsel 2 box that Abe Froman never showed for his lunch reservations. CRACKED COM
In Wreck-It Ralph, Ralph throws a medal at the screen in a fit of anger, which makes the Out of Order sign on the other side slide off. PAG MAN This
22 Movie Plots That Require Ridiculous Luck

Casino Royale

007 CRACKED.COM CASINO ROYALE It's insanely lucky that James Bond left the casino just in time to notice the villains kidnap his girlfriend on the oth
KICK-ASS Wannabe .superhero 'Kick-Ass should have changed his .name to Luck-Ass after Hit Girl showed up by chance and saved him from being sliced to
THE STARS ALIGNED PERFECTLY FOR PRINCE HANS. 1 Anna fell for Hans in a matter of minutes, and Elsa used her evil powers right after. 2 Elsa fled and
P! IDA The Karate Kid It was an astonishing turn of luck that Kensuke Miyagi was hanging out outside, in the middle of the night, in the general area
whe fromed RABBIT ROGEP The whole framing part hinged on detective Eddie Valiant finding evidence... of Jessica Rabbit playing pattycake with Mr. Ac
In Back to the Future 3, the DELorean's wheels happen to be exactly as far apart as the train track is wide. What luck - otherwise, Doc's plan to acce

The Jungle Book

22 Movie Plots That Require Ridiculous Luck
CUBE It's incredibly lucky that the arbitrary path that Quentin chose let him meet up with a mathematical genius, an escape artist, one of the archite
Jaguar Paw was about to get decapitated when a total solar eclipse the one that happens once in a hundred years - coincidentally occurred at the momen
GUARDIANS OF GALAXY THE IN THE VASTNESS OF TIME AND SPACE, THANOS'S HENCHMEN REACH THE SAME DESERTED PLANET AS STAR-LORD, JUST AS HE'S STEALING THE OR

Ocean’s Twelve

The gang gets arrested by the Feds and discovers that one of them has a mother who is also an FBI agent... OCEAN'S TWELVE ...and of courSE, she has to
THE DARK GHT ST.EP1: KILL GORDON STEP9:EXPECTTHISGUY TO TAKEFALL STEP 15:ATTACK ARMOREDCONVOY SURVIVE THIS STEP? GET ARRESTED BY THAT GUY YOUKILLED GE
In Superman, Lex Luthor picks Hackensack, NJ as the target for his other nuclear missile where it turns out his henchwoman's mother lives5 This miracu
HOMEALONe2 LOST LN NEW YORk Harry and Marv arrive in New York on the exact same day Kevin does, and then repeatedly run into him in a city of 8 millio
STAR T'REK NOT ONLY IS KIRK STRANDED ON THE SAME PLANET AS FUTURE SPOCK AND RUNS INTO HIM BY SHEER CHANCE, BUT SCOTTY IS NEARBY AS WELL; SO THEY CAN U
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