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At the end of the movie, Jack should have turned the gun on himself


He was unhinged in the beginning of the movie and it would have made a nice set of bookends had he become completely unhinged in the ending.

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i agree

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All of them should have died in my opinion. I can't seem to understand how such great actors were in such a terribly written movie? There simply isnt a point to this boring 2 hour film, dont get me wrong, the acting from De Niro and Norton and others was superb, I really love these actors. But the story is a useless piece of junk.

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Here's how casting went. Milla couldnt find enough work from her husband so she get this. DeNiro, as the method actor he is, sees he gets to fuck Mila, signs on. Norton see DeNiro is hired and remembers the times shooting the Score.

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I agree with this. Jack's only redemption was a bullet to the brain. It's really distressing that Jack gets to keep living after ruining his wife's life like that (and his daughter for that matter).

On the same note, I don't see Stone as redeemed either. His character arc is faux redemption, because all he does is find a way to be a calm person, I'm not convinced that he's expunged any evil characteristics at all. He's not redeemed by the end of the movie, but, has an opportunity to just be a good person from that point forward, which at some point you could consider his life redeemed somewhat. His redemption is to be determined. Jack, it's too late for him, and he's a scumbag all the way up to the end of the movie, up to his retirement. Jack's diatribe about how criminals never change, nobody changes, that was all a guilty admission of his character, not Stone, and not prisoners in general. Jack was easily the worst person in this film.

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