bad ending (spoiler)

Yes, before throwing it into the water he could at least have broken the CD with his hands like he threathened to do before shooting her. But then again: this movie was just as much about certain visual style as logic style, maybe throwing it into the "endless ocean" looked better in the creators minds. And throughout the movie, a state of unrealness remained, so why should everything suddenly get boringly real at the end?

The ocean would destroy the CD anyway. The salt would corrode the CD, the sun would warp it, and there are far larger creatures in the ocean than "fish." You also have to remember that they're probably hundreds of kilometres from anywhere.

As for the ending, I loved it. Why? Because I would do all that and more for a woman I loved! It also made his character into something extremely noble and good. Instead of being an industrial spy, a thief, and stealing some mundane industrial file, he becomes a noble lover who did it all for the love of a woman.

As for th kill on site security who know what Rita looks like, you forget they were blown up.I imagine Rita doesn't deal with operatives below the security chief level. By blowing them up and stealing the file, he assures that Rita will be safe and sound forever.

Yes the ending could have been better. Still 7/10 with an alternate ending it could have been 8.5

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I think they were trying to portray the digital age when all the inforamtion would be electronic and not stored on paper and as he deleted the master file it may have taken down all the others on her. As when the manager of the vault gives a toast to the "information age" he was ironically trying to show that it was still fallible and that this information may still be lost unless there was a human influence and as no agents actually see her until the end of the movie then they get blown up she would be fine unless there was still a file on her, whic there wasnt. Finally all the agents would have had volitile minds due to the mind control systems they were using seemed to have memory side effects so they would be unreliable.

I also think the ending would have been better if the disk was tossed without us knowing what was on it.

I was intrigued by the whole movie. It's not the kind of thing I would normally watch as I tend to be too analytical. I found that I just needed to stay in the moment and not think too much because, really, the whole movie is preposterous.

Overall, I enjoyed it. I think the only other movie I have seen that has Jeremy Northam in it is "That Winslow Boy" but I don't remember his role. I think he's pretty cute - I'll have to try and catch him in some other movies.

Fully agree with yall who say that it woulda been much better if he tossed the disk into the water without revealing the contents to us... But then this was an insignificant technicality compared to the surreal flow of the entire movie :D

"I'd have rather not known what was on the disk."

I disagree: the movie is basically a love story, so without that scene it wouldn't really work.

theres a reason he throws it into the sea! all this information gathering is about control, a futile attempt to tame the chaotic ways of the nature, throwing the cd in the water is a metaphor for the trust into this natural chaos, you cant control everything, you have to accept the unpredictability of reality

if you still need a deeper ending check out the thoughts about a possible deeper "doubletwist" on the topic (we are supposed to wonder if rooks was just a figure in ritas game of chess..)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284978/board/thread/7899413

Yep, I liked that he did it all for love. Corny, but effective. My problem was that it doesn't make any sense.

The 'Rita file' he retrieved has her picture and info with the directive, 'Terminate'. How would all their agents know to terminate her unless they too had a copy of this file? They established that the Vault was cut off from the rest of the world for security purposes, and only accessible by couriers. So none of their agents would be able to look up her info if they encountered her - unless there were multiple copies of her file, thereby invalidating his work throughout the entire film.

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