Even if it was just a creature sent by satan, your issue is still valid. Not only is the trope of the big slow giant overused in a variety of fantasy battle scenes, but for it to literally be used to conclude the big finale is a puzzling and expensive way to define "anticlimatic".
Also, not only did Kane's success depend upon THAT unimaginative circumstance, but the fact that this all-powerful sorcerer, with a knife to Meredith's throat and no apparent need to even kill her in that moment as the creature prepared to smash Kane, opts for a ridiculously theatrical death blow, throwing both arms up to grasp the blade with two hands, releasing his grip on the girl, giving her that obvious chance to shove him (SHOVED HIM??) to a convenient spot for Kane to blow out his brains, when all he really needed to do was slide the damned blade three inches.
These kinds of tropes are well and good for beats in battle scenes, but to actually conclude the film with such relatively weak sauce is likely the reason sequels were not considered financially viable.
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chilone
8 years ago
Meh. Kane obviously had some divine intervention on his side against the demon. Also, the sorcerer was still a mortal man, prone to human errors. How would you have done it?
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Vibradiant
8 years ago
Ever heard of reading comprehension?
when all he really needed to do was slide the damned blade three inches.
And no. Divine intervention was not obvious. Stop defending sh!tty material.
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chilone
8 years ago
Ever heard of reading comprehension?
Ever jump to conclusions?
How would you have scripted the finale?
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Vibradiant
8 years ago
As the OP stated in the subject line, the movie WAS pretty good until that finale. All kinds of personal struggle, angst, sacrifice and suffering to reach the point of redemption, and instead of something which nicely wrapped it up in a similar reflective tone, they opted for a ridiculously simplistic trope.
There are so many things wrong with the way they cartoonishly chose to end the story, that I doubt it could be properly rescripted without removing the entire sequence involving a big clumsy stupid demon and a frightened girl shoving a supernaturally-powered being capable of dematerialization into the path of a bullet.
I'd have suggested something of a more internalized struggle to overcome base instincts or temptations in the effort to outwit the sorcerer, and as he sacrificed himself to save the waif, actual divinity would intervene on his behalf. Really, any conclusion which didn't make all the excellent preceding tension and drama fall flat at the end is the point.
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chilone
8 years ago
As I said, I was pretty 'meh" on the finale which is why I was curious as to how you would have preferred it. Your ideas sound pretty good, actually. :)
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