So the producers thought it will be okay if the final bad guy just die in an explosion just like the rest of the crew? After all that piece of sh!t had done, backstabbing, bullying, punching innocents...then just die without any misery??? F#ck this movie! Would've been Sheen's best movie if it hadn't been for that ulcer of climax.
shareDead is dead and he got what he deserved.
shareI guess jake/wraith could have killed packer in the way they killed him like the crow. But why? Just kill him doing what he loves. But you have to feel for Billy when he realizes who jake really is.
shareThe point of the movie was not revenge, it was Jamie ( as Jake) getting a second chance with Keri. In order to do this he had to finish off the bad guys. Jake points out to Keri that they are supposed to be together, and that you have to pack light "Because the trip we are going on is short." I do think they are going off to the afterlife. One hint of that is when the bad guy kidnaps Keri no one but Jamie's brother tries to help and he gets beaten up for his efforts. There is no place for Keri in the town, so she will be with her true love Jsmie.
"The point of the movie was not revenge, it was Jamie ( as Jake) getting a second chance with Keri. In order to do this he had to finish off the bad guys. "
It's absolutely about revenge, your flimsy explanation makes NO sense whatsoever.
Are you saying if Jake killed the bad guy immediately in the beginning, some OTHER 'bad guy' (which were just clueless drugged teens following a charismastic leader, really, they were not necessarily 'bad', they just hadn't been taught how to be 'good') would've tried to mess with their relationship or somehow STOP him from taking her into the afterlife?
I mean, how would they have been able to stop him when all he had to do is say 'hop in' and then ride into the horizon?
If it was -really- like that, all he had to do is prevent the 'bad guys' from moving until he's gone.
Also, he didn't 'finish off' anyone - when you think about it, he simply BROUGHT THEM WITH HIM.
I mean, they all went to 'afterlife' because they were killed, right? Jake and Keri travel to the same afterlife, so if anything, Jake made SURE the 'bad guys' can all continue harassing him and Keri as much as they want, as they're now all in the SAME DIMENSION (which wouldn't have happened if Jake hadn't AVENGED so much).
No, this movie is all about revenge, and Keri is just the hollyweird injected romance cliché number one: ALWAYS PUT ROMANCE IN EVERY GOD DAMN MOVIE.
This movie would've been basically the same without Keri in it, except we wouldn't have had as much eye candy and sympathy for and understanding for the motivations of the main character, plus he is really shown to be some kind of 'good guy', and the only way to do that is to show him doing 'good deeds', like giving the futuristic magic car to his (ex-)brother, and taking Keri into the afterlife.. so he also murders her?
Yeah, movies are not really very good at making sense.
Dying in a traffic accident with a fire and getting your eyeballs sucked out is pretty bad...
shareI kind of like the ending. Packard didn't simply run into the car like the other goons. He got rammed in a head on collision at full speed lol. I like that The Wraith made Packard see him standing in the middle of the road so he would step on the gas and go faster and make the crash even more of an impact.
shareI guess the OP meant that the Wraith could've haunted Packard a bit more, made him really scared and remorseful before slowly and painfully finishing him off.
Though it's a bit weird to me how someone can say 'dead is dead' when it comes to THIS movie, when it clearly shows 'afterlife' being a thing, so no one is ever really dead... they'll continue their discussions in the afterlife. So basically Jamie is taking Keri back to Packard and his gang, after first making sure they're all waiting for them in the afterlife.