why does everyone hate the ending?

Well, if you think about it, it was tried to be sold as a Martial Arts film, when this really wasn't. This was more of an Action Drama like The Killer.

The ending was perfect as how everything goes to hell when someone deceives. No resolution, so forgiveness, no compassion. Just vengeance and death.

Or maybe the writer and director has a knack for depressing story lines and possibly depressed themselves.

Although, it's not without faults. The script was somewhat cheesy and some of the scenes were a bit cliche (he loses, thunder and rain...wow).

For what it's worth, it was a great film. I don't know how people don't like the ending, either.

(Spoiler warning: if you have not seen this movie, get away from this comment now. If you have, read at your own risk, but you will be disappointed in the ending. God knows, I was)

Okay, I'm gonna be real right here, right now. The story was good, the action scenes rocked da' house but the ending was a total letdown. I'm like, 'Come on now! Jacky just went through hell and the girl he was with was unfaithful and she killed herself when Jacky told her how he felt about her. And when he tries to get payback on the people who screwed him over, he gets gunned down'


I got really peeved at that: this is twice now that I've seen Jacky die in a movie and I really hate that...he's the hero in this, so why does he have to die? I mean, if Tin was willing to reform, there would've been no problem, but instead she thinks she can erase everything with her own death. As a result, Kong goes on a rampage and dies trying to restore her honor, oblivious to the fact that she had been whoring and messing around the whole time.

Well, I'll be honest: if there was an alternate ending to this film, there would've been know problem, but I felt that the two lead characters dying was just too bland. Tin should've just embraced the fact that she had gotten too greedy, damage was done on both sides and that she should just live with the secret...Kong wouldn't have known and if he eventually found out, so what? They breakup, they makeup, and life should just go on.

Had the ending been better, the movie itself would've been more tolerable.

I finally got to see the movie. I didn't think the ending was THAT bad. The ending was more of a typical love-tragedy rather than happily-ever-after.

I hated the ending. The fights scenes were in the wrong place. The last fighter was no where as good as some of the previous fighters. The 3-on-3 fight or one of the others should have been the final fight. The love story and plot about the other girl who was prostituting herself really slowed down the movie.

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This is an old thread but my comment is going to extend , partly, to many other movies from China (incl HK).

The point of the movie is one of anti-consumerism, the girl does all she does because she wants money to buy stuff. From that notion everything she does is purely about money and the moral of the story is that it is not worth it, that faithfulness and good qualities are enough to make you a worthy person. This is a recurring theme through many characters in the current wave of Chinese films and you often see villains from mainland motivated by blind greed even as small characters. The reality is that mainlanders have an insatiable lust for money and luxury goods, really clashing with the somewhat communist ideal that China still pretends to uphold.
China is very strict on script control and the characters being tainted by capitalism have to suffer the consequences. This is really what the movie ending is about, hence the symbol of western brand culture (ferragamo) burning at the end.

There's also an element of Asian philosophy which one could describe as karma, or cause and effect, where one does reap what they sow. None of the "winner takes all" propagated by Hollywood and the west. And you can also add a critical look at the power of money, beyond the politics, where if you are poor in China, you're basically screwed and will always be at the low end of society.

I have no idea if the director and writer were given much of a choice in any case.

Everyone's already given their opinions about the ending and I agree with most of them that it really seemed out of place and silly.

It wasn't just the ending though. The whole story with the other girl who prostitutes yourself had me confused too. That may have been the subtitles though because they were pretty bad in the version I watched. But I couldn't understand that part of the story at all.

One minute they're friends and she's giving her advice on how to prostitute herself better and the next the goofy guy who loves everybody is calling her a slut and Tin is angry with her and none of it makes sense. Not to mention the confession in the bathroom, which, as someone else said, came out of nowhere.

Anyway, the story was all over the place, but I still liked the movie until that ending. Still, not a bad movie overall.

Poorly Lived and Poorly Died, Poorly Buried and No One Cried