Would have been a good movie but it seemed they couldn't figure out how to end the movie and took the obvious easy way out.
shareYeah, I felt the end was letdown too.
I think a better ending would have been the kids simply running off back home after the shootout.
Was there even an ending? I don't get it.
shareSeeing the lights of the city and dispatch calling in. So yeah it was really more of a cliffhanger. But most people take this as the kids called dispatch and let them know about the shot kid and pulled right next to an E.R. where they saved the kid. But the Hollywood I knows says that right after that scene the kid rolls the car in the ditch and throws the both of them out to their death.
shareWhat more needed to be said? It was obvious what was going to happen next and there was no need to see it. A movie has to end somewhere and some people just want every little thing spelled out for them. Did you require a stand By Me epilogue detailing the rest of the kids lives?
The ending was just fine.
It was a lazy end to a lazy film.
It is right up there with, "and then he woke up, it had all been a dream".
I wasn't expecting any better, or caring in the least. You have to have a character to care about firstly, and the only ones I might have cared about/could or were allowed to act in this film had already been zapped.
There are poignant, powerful, rewarding endings, and then there are ones that just come at the end of a lame duck film. This was the latter.
No, I don't need a Stand By Me (way better movie than this one, btw!) ending, but this was completely ambigious, breaking the rules of storytelling 101. So the one kid will survive as the town is up ahead, and POSSIBLY the other kid might get to a hospital in time, but maybe not. When you invest time with characters you need a resolution of some sort. Happy or unhappy, just tell us, instead of being faux-hip about it.
shareWell said, CPTHowdy87! I had absolutely no issues with the ending. *Spoilers* My wife is saying "they're gonna die, they're gonna die (when they are sans lights on the car) and I'm saying "They're not gonna die", but I'm really thinking *beep* They are gonna die". And then the city lights appear in the distance and I think "Phew. They're not gonna die". Bloody good ending actually.
shareHopefully the boy driving asks dispatch how to turn the lights on.
I don't have a problem with the ending. They both live, they both die, one dies. Does it matter?
Or the one dies, the other goes home and get a whoopin' then kills his parents.
They both live, one becomes a Sheriff, and the other a drug smuggler.
Headlights should have come on automatically at night.
I have a 2003 truck that turns lights on when its a little bit overcast so cop car should have acted similarly. I can turn them off manually, but I've seen others where you can't. So who knows.
Anyone out there with that car as a personal vehicle care to comment?
The set up for the shoot out worked well and I was getting into it, but man when it started it went downhill fast. Then it was just over.
5/10