It has been years since i seen this film, Can anyone tell me what happens at the end. I seem to remember Christopher Reeve is in the courtroom and gets stabbed in the leg but cant remember if he reacts. Does he get away with the murders?
shareReeve has no reaction. Mantegna gets dragged out of the court room and we see him packing his desk and leaving town. The film ends with a shot of Reeve (still in wheelchair,) his son, and the chick next door in a baseball field.
sharei remember him *spoiler alert*
rolling his wheelhair over to the window to watch his son, and standing up with a cup of coffee in his hand. the entire wheelchair thing was a hoax.
yeah, I don't remember why he is standing, but the movie does end with him standing at the window, showing that it was a hoax...
shareActually, after Rhinehart stabs Dempsey he is booked, a stunned look on his face as Dempsey does not react.
We get a shot of Rhinehart putting his gun and badge in the pouch of his personal possessions before he is booked.
We get another shot after he is released of him openning that pouch and finding his gun and badge gone.
Rhinehart not only finds them gone, but i never saw him 'leave' town.... all i saw him do was leave out of a room at the station, and follow the yellow line around a corner - thats it.
Dempsey is standing looking out the window, i never SAW him 'roll' up to the window.... you see him come into frame drinking coffee, then they cutaway to a wide shot and he's STANDING there with his wheel chair behind him...
THEN they cut to, i believe, the baseball field with Demps, Damon, and the next door lady as she sucks at trying to hit a ball - Damon says she needs to concentrate as they have a good shot of the field from up in a helicopter. :)
that's it.
plus, to ME, it seems that the 50/50 chance of Demps regaining his feeling enough to walk again worked. they DID say he was paralyzed, so yeah he was. he just got a lot of PT (physical therapy) and got good w/ his arms to hold himself up, THEN got his legs strong as he used things at waist level to prop his body up with his arms, and finally was able to walk again. that's why it was such a struggle for him to 'stand up' in the chair to shoot NIck, AND then walk to where Nick was to shoot his own chair. he was still trying to get even better at standing. So long as he had something to lean on (hence the cane he leaned on to rent the videos) he could stand up..
:)
"That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard" (req. line 4 the recent 48hr film challenge regionally)
Don't you remember the scene where Rhinehart's former partner is watching at the station door while Rhinehart carries a box of his cleaned out desk to his car ?
shareAnother point about the yellow line.
There is the "cop" side of the line and the "civilian" side of the line.
Rineheart walked on the civilian side of the line. He recognizes that he's not a cop anymore.
Yes, he does stab Dempsey in the leg, but Dempsey had already learned to control his emotions so well (remember him training himself over and over in order to pass the polygraph test?) that he was able to hold in the pain and thus continue to fool everyone into thinking he really was paralyzed.
Excellent film, with GREAT twists! Even I was surprised when he stood up from the wheelchair to shoot his brother.
In the shot where you see Dempsey's face just after he gets stabbed, you can see he's flushed and possibly grinding his teeth - after the amount of physical exertion he would have put himself through walking after being paralysed, he was probably used to dealing with pain.
shareWhy do so many people confuse an actor with the character he plays?
It's not REEVE in the courtroom, it's the CHARACTER in the courtroom!
Try to realize the difference between the CHARACTER Reeve is playing, and Reeve himself. Please.
Reeve is in a movie set that is made to look like a courtroom (even if it is an actual room where proceedings have been held, it's still a movie set when they're filming a.. you know, MOVIE)
Also, saying that Reeve has no reaction is wrong. Reeve has an INTERNAL reaction, but tries his best to not show an EXTERNAL reaction, and this scene shows the brilliance of his acting ability to be able to pull it off so beautifully and believably.