It's easy to name movies that waste a good concept. There are dozens of lists dedicated to covering movies that wasted their potential. In Time, Transcendence, The Purge, and countless other movies did next to nothing with a potentially brilliant concept. Since it's easy to hop online and find lists dedicated those kinds of movies, we've decided to look at movies that do the opposite.
Listed below are ten movies that shouldn't have worked. Rather than wasting good concepts, these movies somehow managed to be good in spite of their ridiculous premises. These are the types of movies that are easy to dismiss at first glance because they seem destined to fail. Then, against all odds, a movie about a psychic tire turns out to be pretty damn clever.
