Didn't get ending...


He was shot. How did he not die?

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probably had body armor and blood packs. The old guy felt his pulse but lied to the FBI when he said that he was dead.

"Think for yourself. Question authority."

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It was a setup - it was staged so that wesley (sorry shaw) could 'officially' be killed, but they really set him up, probably with a new identity and sent him off to europe or whatever.

So it was a fake/cover-up, shaw wasn't really shot.

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But remember - he didnt get a new life. The last seconds of the film show someone else taking a picture of him - suggesting that he will be killed.

exactly similar to the ending of the Domino Principle.

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actually, the way i saw the last few seconds of the film, someone took a pic of Wesley Snipes and Marie Matiko. then someone else was taking a picture of the guy who took their picture (if i remember correctly there was another "click" of the camera when the photographer's pic was taken). so i saw it as someone was watching them, but someone else was protecting them anyway.

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Nope, the first click was just of Wesley Snipes and that chick. The second click then revealed the photographer. Snipes' is a dead man essentially or at least, someone is on to him. Latez.

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In between all the clicks, it was basically a Sequel set up.

Shoot 'em in the head; They're Dead...they're All Messed up! -Night of the Living Dead

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I thought that Shaw was killed in the end. That last bit of story you see in Paris is his final dream that he has before he dies.

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Maybe the clicks meant that there's is always someone watching. That the picture always gets bigger depending on the point of view.....visual metaphor.
But ...

"I'm Rick James Bitch!!!"

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That location where it was set sounded alot like the asian girls favorite place. Before Snipes dies he reads a paper which reports of the girls death. He then dies and they are bith in a dream/afterlife sequence. I think ;)

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I'm surprised anyone would misunderstand the ending so much - it wasn't particularly ambiguous.

Shaw (Snipes) is shot in the chest whilst wearing a bullet-proof vest in a fake assassination. The MAJOR clue that he isn't dead is the wry smile on the fat cop's face when he feels Shaw's pulse. Shaw is given a new identity and relocated to Paris with Julia.

If the final scene was a dream sequence then why would there be a photographer taking surveillance pictures of Shaw and Julia? In Shaw's own dream? Think about it.

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it can't be dream all of his other dreams were cloudy and a shade of blue. It was faked death.

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Nothing like a little overanalyzation there; it's not an Ingmar Bergman flick, it was just a little twist that they both lived--for now.

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One of the keys to understanding the ending is also remembering that Julia's death was faked also. The paper said that she was raped and killed. The click at the end is someone else watching them, setting up a possible sequel.

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I thought it was a simple setup.

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If someone is watching them, well they could use that as a part II movie or something, never know.

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They were just making space for a sequel. But that never happened, probably because the film didn't do that well.

By the way its very obvious that Capella played along with Shaw. He kind of smiled and his henchman watched around to see if nobody notices. Julia was already fake dead, she was reported to be raped and killed which Eleanor read in the car. I got this on my first time watching.

They chose France probably because Julia imagined herself being there (a survival tactic) when she was being held captive in the car earlier in the movie.

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The camera clicks were definitely metaphores.

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It was obvious that the Chinese girl and Shaw DIED. And the Paris was a dream sequence to make it look like a happy ending.
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There is a sequel. It's straight to DVD,(duh?)with Treach as Shaw.

I'm here to kill you all. Now who's first?

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The trailer for the sequel has someone saying the line, "Neil Shaw is still alive." I think that confirms it (plus the fact they made a sequel).

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Although the ending was setting up a sequel, it also harked back to when the asian chick says prisoners of war visualize the house of their dreams while imprisoned in order to keep their sanity, and she says she visualizes "sitting at a cafe in a small village in the south of France". By fulfilling this visual at the end of the film when they are actually in France, it symbolizes how they are both still, and most likely always will be, prisoners of war... queue photographer taking their picture :-} I can't say it made me want to watch the sequel unfortunately... elll oh elll

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The newspaper was a fake death of Julia for Eleanor to read and Wesley Snipes was involved in a setup fake death as well and the ending was real and was probably a setup for a sequel. By the way there is a sequel that is mentioned on IMDB under Movie Connections.

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I thought the subtle smirk that Frank Capella does when he's looking at the "corpse" revealed that he was in on the killing, and therefore Shaw wasnt dead.

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Shaw was killed. That was his twin brother in France.

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