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the ending- a let down?

posted 19 years ago by film-snob
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I thought this was a brilliant movie throughout, thinking "Oh, this is a ten!" up until the last five minutes. During the last minutes of the movie, it just sort of disintigrated like they didn't know how to end it. You create this great character study with these intriguing characters and the friendship they develop, and then just sort of botch it at the end. I don't care that they died (if they died- see other "the ending" thread), but it just seemed like the story didn't have an ending so they just pieced one together. The last few minutes dropped my opinion of this movie from a "10" to an "8". It's still a stirring film, but the ending really did the characters and the story a disservice. Anyone else feel this way?

[–] withnail69 19 years ago

yes. I wouldn't say I strongly agree but I deffo agree

[–] gaiderdraco 19 years ago

The ending was perfect, as perfect as the rest of the film.

They were both dying men. One was "old" and was to have surgery and the other risked his life everytime he went to work.
The surgery failed and the bank robber was backstabbed.

They wanted to live each others' lives and they got to as they approached the afterlife but the point being is that they were approaching death from the beginning. The robbery was going to happen, as was the backstab, and the surgery was going to occur, as well.

One way to look at the reason that both failed is that in death was the only way to be the other. A spiritual experience as you pass to another plain of existence.

D.

[–] runsunny 18 years ago

If they're not the same man, which is a possibility, then...

they both died and in the afterlife, were doing what they really wanted.

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[–] inf-1 18 years ago

It was a hodgepodge....
Did they both drop acid before they died??
I love idiots who try to spin the mess that was in fact the end.

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[–] Xcalat3 17 years ago

yes a let down

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