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The overly pat ending really brings it down


Especially with [spoilers ahead] Leiter looking so jovial, shooting the breeze with Bond, even though his wife's dead and he's had vital pieces of his body gnawed off by sharks.

The movie should have ended immediately after Bond set Sanchez on fire. That was the raw, poignant ending this darker, revenge-fueled, personal stakes-filled Bond movie needed.

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I guess it's never bothered me cause I grew up with this movie, but now that you mention it, it's an odd wrap up for a Bond film. They don't end that way. They end with the bad guy dead, the evil lair destroyed and making out with the dame.

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