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Stupid ending

posted 4 years ago by drrclavan (667)
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SOOOO many movies where the protagonist doesn't kill his nemesis when he has the chance only to be utterly surprised when said nemesis shows up out of the blue some time later and kills the protagonist. How. Incredibly. Stupid. I saw that ending coming from miles away. Happily ever after scene, doggins, boy playing, but where would Jude Law be?, after all we didn't see him die...

That ruined the entire movie. Also no nudity to make up for anything so 3/10 from me.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77566) 4 years ago

***Spoliers*
I got the impression that Hanks assumed Law was down for good (it did appear to be a headshot)

He should have double checked but he was in a big hurry, it was a robbery/murder scene after all

[–] redban (6318) 3 years ago

Nah, I don't think he knew that Jude Law was dead. Remember Jude Law fired at him from the window afterwards. So they knew Jude Law was still alive. I don't think Hanks even knew he successfully hit Law. He ran out of the hotel so fast.

At the end, Hanks & his boy go the beachhouse and expect to live happily ever after. They figured that Vitti called off the hitman. With the O'Connors gone, there was now no reason to have Sullivan killed. And the way Vitti and his men let Hanks kill Daniel Craig suggested that Hanks and Vitti were now on good terms.

What likely happened is that Vitti did call off the contract and advised Jude Law to stop. But Jude Law was pissed at the injury to his face, and he was simply so psycho. So he went after Hanks and his boy, contract or no contract. They didn't expect that Law would still come after them with the contract voided.

[–] ShogunofYonkers (77566) 3 years ago

Fair points

[–] Lakin1963 (4) 3 years ago

Just a couple of corrections. I think the Chicago guy’s name was Nitti, not Vitti. And it was John & Connor Rooney, not the O’Connors. It’s been awhile since I saw this movie though. I also think this scene was a bit rushed. It would have only taken a second for Sullivan to put another bullet in Maguire.

[–] Kowalski (76257) 3 years ago

THAT HAS ALWAYS BEEN MY INTERPRETATION...HANKS ASSUMES HE IS INT HE CLEAR...BUT LAW IS ON HIS OWN REVENGE QUEST AT THAT POINT.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Given Sullivan had robbed from the Chicago mob they couldn't let him live.

[–] TroyB (164) 3 years ago

Its Sullivan and Maguire. Should use the movie character names, since it is after all, just a movie.

[–] BeaSouth (3346) 2 years ago

Really good post redban. From an even higher view, the movie was a gloomy, rainy, gray-colored tragedy from the start. It might have been a bit contrived that the previously sharp-witted Sullivan would make the mistake of going to the lake house known to the very assassin he failed to finish off. But everything about the story to that point required a tragic end. And, the story needed the protagonists to end up in Perdition, Michigan to justify the clever title.