Was anyone else disappointed in the ending?

I had the same feeling when I watched it last night. The movie was entertaining but had quite a lot of moments where I felt they did stuff poorly. They tried too hard to turn him into a hero, made the director too much of a villain and having him suddenly give up in the end just didn't fit his nature - there was nothing to indicate why he would change his mind and the way the head of security went against his wishes and him not even reacting to it? *shakes head*

A lot of it felt a little sloppy - I like old-fashioned approaches to movies such as this one, but the sloppiness detracted a little from it. I think a lot of it came from cutting away parts of scenes to make and already long movie not even longer.

I liked this film. The ending was quick but at least Viktor got what he wanted and have no total qualms about it. But for those viewers who do have a problem with the ending, how about this:


Do you think that Spielberg could have made the ending more suspenseful in Viktor trying to get Benny Golson's autograph like maybe a chase through New York, police hot on his trail and some sort of manhunt or something. The employees he befriended at the terminal are watching on television and are rooting for him and he becomes a media sensation. Though we know hes not a criminal, the news outlets could make him out to be some undesirable or sympathetic or something and he makes it to the Ramada Inn in time to fulfill his promise to his father. When he walks out after a performance and remembering all the good times he had at the airport, the police surround him and he raises his hands in the air but gives a satisfying smile knowing that his mission is completed. Cut to black.

Epilogue: Viktor returns home. He also visited Gupta in prison and they became close friends until Gupta's death before he could stand trial, Viktor then applies for citizenship into the U.S. and sells his story to publishers and filmmakers and gets a comfortable job at a university or college as a Krakozhian expert or historian or something (that might not work but something along the lines of a career like that), he returns to the airport and sees all his friends again and then sees Amelia and they exchange glances and the movie ends. Fin.