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After the hit men fake their deaths, shouldn't the movie be over?

posted 14 years ago by mistresszhivago
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Mickey's character "Bird" insists that you must "kill anyone who sees your face", because he feels no one knows who he is - Right? OK, so now that the FBI knows who he is and his mobster boss is after him, the jig is up.

Everyone thinks you're dead - just go away. There's no money in killing Carmen/Wayne anyway...

Most hitmen try to say they have some sort of "honor" code, but "Bird" was just a psycho who killed for no good reason other than hate. If they intended him to have a code, it was poorly written.

[–] JoshuaEight 14 years ago

good point, excellent point in fact. good movie all the same though.

[–] Zersch 14 years ago

Because the whole movie was working towards Bird killing JGL. They had to have that scene play out one way or another. I wish we could get a version of the movie released with all of the cut scenes put back in. It felt like it could have been a really good movie but it felt so disjointed.

It's impressive to see a man feeding off his emotions.

[–] J_win7 14 years ago

That's an EXCELLENT point... the worst part of which, I ashamed to say, is that I didn't think of it myself ;)

There seems to be this fixation in movies lately with hitmen being obsessed, sometimes to a fault, with being "ghosts". It becomes their main motivation to kill. Money takes a back seat, and even takes no seat at all. Best example of this is Anton Chigurh in NCFOM...

Bird's code, as it were, seems to be more of rules that help him get the job done, not anything related to morality.

This is definitely a plot failure. It seems to be done to give Bird more credit as a professional hitman. Very good observation,..

Experience, though quite valuable, is something you only get just after you really need it.

[–] craigm-13 14 years ago

My take was this. Bird figures no one is actively looking for him anymore, mainly meaning the crime family, but considers what if he is picked up by the authorities for some reason later on down the road? He could be ID'ed at least by DNA...and then the feds can round up the couple to be their witnesses for a murder case again. The couple, the feds, and the crime family have all kicked back...time to eliminate the couple who had been hiding in witness protection. It was a logical 'loose end' that Bird wanted to clean up, hopefully free of charge. But he ended up 'paying the piper.'

[–] mistresszhivago 14 years ago

That's a streeeeetch... :o)
He was just a sloppy hitman with no intelligence and no real code - unlike most smart hitmen you see in movies who know how to cut their losses. He simply had nothing better to do...

[–] craigm-13 14 years ago

That's your take and you are entitled to it--and your experience is other ''movie hitmen''? In reality, it was a simple detour to finally eliminate two eyewitnesses to a potential future murder case.

[–] technotrone 14 years ago

You've missed an important detail. Bird himself explained it after he burned his brother's body.
FBI knows who is but also thinks he died in that burned up car. Bird however, says to his partner that sooner or later the FBI will figure him alive. Let's face it, they don't have much in terms of evidence on Bird, best they could get him for is extortion. They had nothing on him for being a murderer. I'm talking about evidence that could fly in a court case against him. Wayne and his wife are a threat to him.

[–] mistresszhivago 14 years ago

@technotrone - It was "tongue in cheek", dude. I don't miss much...

[–] FrmSyriaWithLuv 13 years ago

I was wondering this all day.
I think Technotrone is on to something, but not quite. The Colsons were not a threat now that they were "dead". Killing them would have only made the cops realize that he was still alive. So when the cops later on find him he would get charged with their murders too.

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[–] leggoeggo51 13 years ago

Someone else mentioned earlier, about Richie not beign able to keep his mouth shut. He would have gotten arrested for something stupid, or even hooked up with another partner in crime who he blabbed to(He knew Bird for how long before bragging about his past crimes?). Sure, it would have been easier for Bird to just kill Richie, but that was one of the main plot points. Bird was troubled about his kid brother, who Richie reminded him of.

Of course he ended up killing his Richie anyway, and was going to let Carmen go it seemed. I would have rather it played out this way.

[–] artisanne03 13 years ago

You make a good point, but now that I think about it Bird probably felt he had to go through with killing Carmen and Wayne because he knew Richie wouldn't be able to keep his mouth shut. Richie would mess up the whole plan.

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