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The ending was good + surprising (spoilers)

posted 11 years ago by daan666
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Look I enjoyed this movie throughout, and while some things could have been a little bit better it was still nice.

The ending was awesome imo. When it turned out to be an excercise I thought: 'Ok this is ok but not as surprising as it could have been' It was simply ok but not great.

Then later in the ambulance I thought everything was over and the ending was positive. Well guess again! Because he was so stressed out before and now feeling totally safe with his wife... He had a weak moment and he accidently gave away the location...' This was, for the terrorists, basically the only way to be sure that he gave away the location, first stressed out till the max and then feeling 100% safe with your wife.

Shocking ending to be honest! The bad guys won, and guess what? That happens sometimes.

And sure we can complain about the lack of information on the terrorists or how his wife got into the terrorists organisation. But hey why care about that?

This movie is centered around a guy being held captive in the trunk of a car, all the while when terrorists are executing a master plan. This is not for example 24, where you have 24 series to explain everything.

You can't fully explain a terrorist attack on this size of scale in 80 mins of movie. So what they did was good. We had to use our imagination a bit. The movie director wanted us to think that the US was taken over by an extremely well organised terrorist organisation with contacts on the inside (unlikely to happen but possible given (the worst) a set of circumstances). And it was pretty believable to a certain extent.

[–] timlin-4 11 years ago

Nah, too predictable. Needed another twist that the President had gone insane or was a sleeper agent himself and had to be removed by the good guys with a car bomb so that the country could quickly be saved.

[–] jamasian_man 11 years ago

I was waiting for him to somehow escape the ambulance to thwart them. The ending feels unfinished and lazy, which is a big no no for me.

[–] Paul 4774 11 years ago

They shouldn't have ended where they did; they should've had a scene showing the terrorists invading the Monument looking for POTUS and coming up short. After all, he never confirmed her assumption. Not even close to confirming.

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[–] kinsayder 11 years ago

The movie was implausible at every step, and each twist they added made it less believable. If the bad guys needed information from him, they could have tortured him and threatened his wife without all the elaborate theatrics. And if the wife was in on it, so much the better: she could have pretended to be dying under torture in front of his face.

If it was just a trust-proving exercise, then it makes no sense to put him in mortal danger by shooting at him, attacking him with a swarm of bees (what if he'd inhaled some?), and almost drowning him. A dead agent is no use, no matter how trustworthy he is.

And as for the scene in the ambulance, the bad guys only succeeded because they happened to drive past the right location as he woke up, and he happened to make a comment which his wife interpreted as confirming it to be Roulette. They just got lucky.

[–] sftony 8 years ago

" they could have tortured him and threatened his wife without all the elaborate theatrics." ...Wouldn't have been much of a movie then, would it? Key word: Movie.

[–] seans_life 11 years ago

Unbelievable that people are rating this movie so pathetically low. Do people not get they were able to pull off an action movie that was intense and yet they did it mostly in the trunk of a freaking car the whole time ? To top it off just when you thought you had the ending you didn't. Amazing movie that only people with good taste would appreciate I guess.

... and lately I am seeing more and more movies where people get the rating totally wrong and the funny thing is I am going to bring up another movie where it was basically shot in one location and that is the movie ATM and it was rated 3 or 4 out of 10 basically by everybody and I rated it much higher (read the review as to why)

Do people out there know what a good movie is these days? Do they know what creative means?

[–] denise1234 10 years ago

seans_life^

Agree.

** mini-spoiler **

And I don't know why so many people are squirming about the ending?

It didn't end the way they *thought* it should end, so thus it was a bad ending?

I thought it was a cool little flick (although I did think the bees' scene was a bit over the top), SD did great as a one-man show throughout, and after all his fighting them off (so to speak), enduring torture and psychological warfare, being totally stressed out, etc., and not divulging the secret...then, there's that one little 'breaking point' when he inadvertently lets his guard down -- not when he is being tortured in a very outrageous way, but when he feels 'safe' in a very normal way -- I found that clever.

Boom! Didn't see THAT coming ~

~~ If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story ~ Orson Welles

[–] raphroehler2004 8 years ago

"Do people out there know what a good movie is these days? Do they know what creative means?"

This coming from the guy that gave a piece of crap 'which is holding currently at a 2.8 out of 10' found footage flick like Bigfoot County a 7 Out of 10...and yet gave Event Horizon a 3 out of 10 or Argo (which won the Oscar for Best Picture) a 1 out of 10. And yet you want to insult folks about 'whether they have good taste or not'?

I'm sorry, but when you act like an *beep* by saying 'only people with good taste would appreciate, I guess'...then you're going to get treated like an ass.

The ending to Brake sucked ass. It was stupid, moronic, convenient, implausible, unneeded, and just plain dumb. Looking at a monument makes terrorists 100% sure of something as important to them as 'the location of the President'? For all they knew, he was looking at the monument just to think 'Hey, I want to take my wife there sometime' or 'Yeah. I passed the test. America, *beep* Yeah'...

If the wife was in on it...there wouldn't be easier ways to do any & all of this?

It's not even that creative. There are plenty of flicks (from Arlington Road, to other films) which did this kind of stuff 'twist-wise'.

So get off your high horse.