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The ending is anything but real

posted 18 years ago by disliked
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I loved the movie but the ending is totally rubbish. Why would the FBI detectives leave him alone when catherine flees away in the train? Why didn't Ving Rhames keep him in custody? The deal was Mac deliver zeta-jones to FBI and in turn the FBI would forgive Mac for all his robberies...

And when Ving Rhames allows the two to talk alone as in the deal with Mac he would of course be well prepared that Zeta jones doesn't try anything to escape (especially when he knows that shes so cunning)...

the ending was *beep* otherwise the movie is really good.

[–] ni_loco 18 years ago

I think that he actually let her escape... Remember the 5 superchips worth 4 million dollars each? I think that was Tibadeaux's payment for letting Gin go

[–] gldrgidr-1 18 years ago

Even more unbelievable. Has anyone ever tried jumping a train between stations?

[–] exodusnbw 18 years ago

Not that unbelievable. There are points where they slow down considerably.

[–] mfs_void 17 years ago

If u think leaping off a train is not possible, then you'd be surprised to learn tht not long ago, an NYC man saved another fella who had fallen onto the rail tracks in the most bizarre manner ever heard of. Moments after the first guy jumped on the tracks to save the stranger (*white dude), a train came along and barely grazed the chivalrous black dude. These 2 characters were forced to lie low on the tracks with the train right on top of them. Sounds all like a movie, doesn't it? Well, it ain't. What I'm saying is tht, thr r things that sound implausible but can actually happen in real life.

[–] chunkylefunga 10 years ago

Even more unbelievable. Has anyone ever tried jumping a train between stations

I've done it on trains in China and in Thailand. They slow down quite a bit at parts, no different to jumping on a moving London bus.

[–] PeterBlues 12 years ago

the turn towards the end could perhaps be some of the hippest twists in movie history, atleast it felt like that after just watching the movie for the first time. the only complaint about the movie was that they could have done without connerys grunts against zeta jones, and thats what the critics have picked up on as well, maybe thats why i paid such attention to it.

walking on your shaky ground,
hanging in limbo most of the time,
when you don't come here to step,
you know the dancing just don't begin on itself,
and i feel the world tumbling down,
falling on flat most of the time.

[–] dan-willi84 11 years ago

I haven't seen Entrapment in a couple of years. But it now makes sense: Mac was arrested by the police and Hector made a deal with Mac and used him to entrap Gin.
If Gin wasn't the thief, how could the film had ended differently?

[–] spookyrat1 11 years ago

I loved the movie but the ending is totally rubbish.

Well I liked the movie too, but more for the pairing of Connery and Zeta-Jones rather than the realistic plot. Have you thought about the rest of the movie? With the greatest respect, the narrative is pretty far-fetched.

And yes, Mac did make a deal with Agent Thibadeaux to allow her to escape.

[–] avortac 9 years ago

Well, the ending is pretty ludicrous, but still not as bad as some movies. *Coughcyphercough*

Sorry, just clearing my throat.

It's a different thing to have an 'unbelievable' or 'too fantastic' end in a movie that constantly test, stretches and punches your suspension of disbelief just to show you some hag in supposedly 'sexy outfit', performing completely unrealistic scene just so teenagers could have something to oogle..

.. than it is to have a supposedly serious thriller-movie, with a completely watered-down, politically-correct, cliché, non-sensical, injected-romance-ending that spoils everything that came before it, and renders the whole movie pointless.

I mean, there is plenty of room for 'fun romps' that are NOT meant to be taken seriously (just look at the 'Charlie's Angels' movies - they're practically just visual-aural-narrative JOKES, but they know they're jokes, so they're funny and fun flicks to watch).

This movie is not a serious one, it's basically a 'heist comedy' with constant bombardment of ridiculousness that escalates throughout the movie until it reaches its climax peak at the completely unrealistic and idiotic, but 'supposedly satisfying' end.

It's a silly movie, and you shouldn't be surprised that a silly movie is going to have a silly ending. But hey, it's ESCAPISM - who goes to movies to watch dull 'realism', just to have to come back to dull realism?

If I want 'dull realism' with no fun about it, I HAVE my life.

[–] MovieMystic13 8 years ago

If I want 'dull realism' with no fun about it, I HAVE my life.

Is that the way you would describe your life? Dull realism? You gotta do something about that. Life is not a prison sentence. Maybe you should start by stop turning to films to escape and instead face the beliefs and emotional pain that make your life so dull. Just a thought.