I wanted to like it.But couldn't

okay but the worst is the hurriedly mashed-up ending. Honestly, I don't care about what actually happened, but the ending was horrible. Up until he awoke in the hospital bed, it was great and real and raw and everything an artist could want in a movie. To quickly try to make the slight plot twist wrap up neat as a Christmas bow, well, hell no. It's like seeing a great thing twist into something pathetic (kind of like drugs), and I wanna write the guy and BEG him to fix that ending, to see the truth about how wrong it is in so many ways. I was gonna show it to friends but cannot with the ending because they'll laugh and wonder if I"VE been on the OC. People who like this kind of movie and its true-to-life feeling will NOT like an ending in which he nicely gets to get up, unhurt, shoot a cop, and walk away and make some pithy remark to end the movie. NOOOOO! Watch Requiem for a Dream and take a page from that, Mr. Hickey, and you'll get the star you deserve. Peace.

The film has potential but really could have used a professional touch. I don't mean A list actors and cgi, just better lighting, some actors, direction and cut out the squashed up ending.

the movie was garbage, from start to finish. as for realism... yeah, not even close. almost everything was ludicrous.