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The ending is flawed and makes no sense

posted 12 years ago by Umakemyheadswim
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Okay they were used as some type of biological weapon at end. But did the writer for once use his brain when writing this nonsensical ending? He seemed to have confused himself with traditional zombies which would have been effective biological weapons. I'm just trying to figure how he would think these ones would work. They aren't mindless drones. They essentially have the same feelings, thought processes\as a regular human. So they will react with primal robotic like urge as we see with zombies.

Okay so they want to infect people in Iran. What for? In fact one could argue that this would only strengthen them by making them that much harder to kill. So now they have a lust for blood? Okay well now they are consuming every unaffected being, that could potentially spread worldwide.

[–] grantss 12 years ago

I agree. As you say, if the US thinks that dropping the zombies into Iran would somehow weaken, or even destroy, Iran, that's not very clever thinking. The zombies will go around biting humans, turning them into zombies. So Iran will eventually have an entire population of unkillable zombies. Would suck to be at war with them...

The only other explanation I can think of is that the US didn't know what to do with the zombies. They couldn't figure out how to kill them, but they wanted to be rid of them. So they dropped them into the middle of the Iranian desert, far from the US.

Not a every sound explanation: they could have simply buried them somewhere where they can't get out, or sunk them to the bottom of the sea.

Personally I think the writer/director didn't really know how to end the movie, and the final twist was the best he could come up with. Everything before then was great.

Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free

[–] fatpie42 12 years ago

I actually wonder whether the US military didn't create the zombification in the first place. After all, the protagonist became a revenant during his stint in Iraq....

[–] jjwc44 12 years ago

Your theory is probably right, but maybe the government wanted to use the zombies to kill off the forces in Iran. Sounds like the perfect way to do it to me. As long as they don't turn into zombies when they die. Awesome movie!!!!!

[–] shawnspo82 12 years ago

not hard to understand....they get infected...they are inactive during the day...capture them during the day and then burn them...pretty good weapon i think

[–] mtm_29 11 years ago

Yeah I was thinking their plan would backfire at first too, strengthen the enemy army. But since they know if they are decapitated in the daytime or before they turn, they stay dead, then they have an advantage.
Also, the revenant thing seemed to start in Iraq, maybe it spread to Iran. Then the US army might have just sent the zombies there to fight their zombies. Or they could have been trained not to spread their virus which seems to spread through drinking blood directly from the body. So it does make a little more sense if you think about it, especially if they're there to fight other zombies.

We live in a world filled with deception. It's hard to pick out the truth.

[–] melipooh72 12 years ago

I think they were sent to be better soldiers, not to turn the Iranians into vampires. They are essentially unstoppable as long as they are fighting at night and supplied with blood.

[–] brimst0ne13 12 years ago

well they coulda trained these Revenant in combat, and sent them in as immortal troops, making sure they follow protocol to behead thier victims before they rise as Revenant. The Revenant i would guess originated from the child they hit in the beginning, since his name in the credits is Chimaera child. He could be some sort of experiment, or a new being that escaped Eden (between the tigris and euphrates) hence why its in Iran.

Revenant 2 should have Bart come back as an undead mercenary with a robotic arm LOL!

anyone think its funny that he has the same ability in Heroes minus the blood drinking?

[–] Irishize 11 years ago

Very intersting! Roll on Revenant II, The Deadening! :-)

[–] djopdyke 11 years ago

I just assumed they'd nuke the place once the Revenant Corps had done their "work"... instead of killing "innocent civilians" they'd be heroically "wiping out a menace" (which they created themselves, of course)

[–] nick159 11 years ago

That would work...

Eram quod es, eris quod sum

[–] lungs311 11 years ago

Actually I think everyone is missing something here. Though the revenants seemed to be their "normal" selves, Bart did become a monster at the end. Remember how he killed that subway girl toards the end?? Normal good guy Bart wouldn't do that. And after they dropped him into the desert, he seemed to be out to kill again, he was snarling and baring his teeth. I think that they though they start out semi normal, they eventually becaome a more traditional zombie only interested in killing to stay alive.

[–] kmaults27 11 years ago

No. They want to KILL the people in the Middle East. Not infect them or turn them. The only thing that didn't make sense is that they sent them over before they found out how infection was transmitted. Unless they did that off camera before they weaponized them.

[–] VartanD 11 years ago

They only had like twenty in the lab....they dropped hundreds. They obviously figured out the infection part pretty well.

As to the point, part....remember, they decay and die without blood. Infect the entire population of an area and there's no blood left past the third day or so. They can't move during the day thus they would be easy to control and eliminate when the job was done.

[–] Radalan 11 years ago

I actually thought they were going to be sent into deep space or something. :D

That would have made more sense.

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[–] hardwood53 11 years ago

Leading up to a Zombie Apocalypse.