Well he has a distinctive voice specially if you were 24 fan. I knew it was him the moment I heard his voice which ruined what is supposed to be a twist at the end.
any one else?
How did his voice ruin the 'twist'?
Before I watch a film I'm usually clued up as to who actually stars in what I;m watching and besides it wasn't really a twist as you say. It was more of a 'finally we get to see Kiefer Sutherland instead of just hearing his voice'.
he means the bad guy being alive at the end
if you don´t know Kiefer's voice you think, that´s it, the pizza guy was the bad guy and now he is dead, and when Kiefer appears on screen you are like, what?, the bad guy is alive after all
But it can have two plot twists, each for the two perspectives: either you know it's Sutherland or you don't. If you DON'T know it's Sutherland, the plot twist is when he shows up in the end, but if you do know it's him, the plot twist is when we see the face of the pizza guy. So it kind of works both ways.
shareI think Kiefer wasn't meant to appear in the movie at all, just his voice, but he eventually appeared on the film.
In the TRIVIA section it says:
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The part of the sniper was originally shot with Ron Eldard; he was replaced with Kiefer Sutherland in re-shoots.
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Meh. It could've been his voice as another person, but either way, it was only a "twist" for about 30 seconds, and then the movie showed that the killer was still alive.
Plus, even then...it's a thriller, so I kinda assumed he didn't just kill himself. Hell, we'd already heard the pizza guy's voice earlier, and knew it wasn't the same dude anyways.
Even when I know he also plays Jack Bauer, his voice is a little bit creepy, in my opinion.
shareI agree that his voice did ruin the ending and so called twist.
He was barely in it, they could have had anyone play that part but we know his voice and from the start we knew he was going to be in this film.
His name was in the titles.
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I don't think it made a big difference. if the voice had been an unknown actor or had been distorted most viewers would still automatically doubt that the pizza guy was the Caller anyway. partly because if the death is off-screen in a movie it is NEVER suicide (unless their death is the big plot point and suicide the twist) and partly because it's far more sensible to assume that he just dropped a body there and buggered off
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No ofcourse not. You didnt really see him in the movie apart from at the end. His voice was needed because he has that low calm voice. The twist is for Stu when he realize the sniper is still out there.
shareI thought they were playing into the idea that the shooter may have disguised his voice. I didn't really think of it as a twist, just being grateful it wasn't the pizza guy!
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