The ending?
It was so abrupt and pointless. It even didn't hint to anything. Was it supposed to say that even when you try to disappear, the land of the CCTV still catches you?
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The ending definitely left something to be desired.
The way they focused on a few ships docked at the bay at one point made me think it would foreshadow Statham hitching a ride on one near the end or something. Instead it ended with little imagination and fell short of the rest of the quality throughout the film.
The ending was clear:
The military found him. He would be arrested, then court martialed for war crimes.
No happy Hollywood ending.
I think it was perfect.
cableaddict,
It was the police who found him.
Same idea
shareI thought it was perfect, too. He couldn't get out of his world any more than the nun could get out of hers. They had one summer, and then it was over.
shareI wish it would have showed him in a jail cell or something at the end maybe even have him die too.
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He exposed himself by killing the prick who beat up women, and he knew that he would be found by the authorities by doing this. That's why he gave away his money, met his daughter, and gave them all his money. Even though it didn't make him "a good man" as he said himself, he made the world a little better after having caused people a lot of pain through his war crimes and gangster lifestyle.
He gave the money away to his family, turned in the human trafficking ring, paid rent for staying at Damon's apartment, reimbursed Damon for the taking money out of his bank account, and gave some money to the homeless people he lived with. He got his redemption, and then took responsibility for his actions.
I think the point of the ending was that you should try to redeem yourself, no matter how low you may have sunk, even if you have to face the music.
Indeed, you hit the nail on the head.
The line "I don't think I'm goign to look like this for much longer" said it all. He knew he wasn't going to 'get away'.
I don't think he intended to be caught though. He says "he'll disappear back into the street". He just wants to stop being who he feels he can't stop being when he's sober. He wanted to right as many of his "wrongs" as he could before he did it. But at the end of the day he was just another f'd up person with too much self loathing to allow himself to really get himself together. The ending was just an attempt to stylistically tie it up with the opening, kind of a full circle but it weakened the film which all the way had stayed away from typical, cinematic bow tying.
I actually thought it would end with Chinese finding him on the street and it go to black on his face but was glad it didn't.
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With all the good that Joey did/the repayment of money/turning in the trafficking lot plus the killing of that City bloke and with a nun as a witness plus others who could testify against City boy, I reckon all of that could have worked in his favour in court anyway.
Would have been interesting to see what he would have got at the end of it all in court.
Whether or not the city bloke deserved it - and he most certainly did - Joey cold bloodedly threw him off a skyscraper in front of dozens of witnesses. It couldn't possibly be any less than a full on murder charge.
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He killed 5 innocent civilians in Afghanistan. No amount of good deeds would have counted in his favour at a military court martial. Life in military prison is the minimum he'd get.
But on a personal level, he did redeem himself a little bit. But he's still, and probably always will be, haunted by what he has done in the past.