was i the only one who didn't know abbey was in on it until the end?
some people say they found out when:
"Ryan burnt the money"
"Neil winked at the secretary"
i'll be honest and say it NEVER even came to my mind. either you guys are lying or you have a mind that is like abby's.
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The ending makes you lose any sympathy for her. He should divorce her and take his kid because she's not mentally stable. The whole situation is overkill and the analogy in the name is apt.
shareI suspected it at the end, when they are riding back from Judy's... I loved the twist!
Regresa tu mirada... que ya no me desarma... Yo ya no te quiero nada
I can understand some here not liking Abby's character. But that is not something imo that makes Neil more sympathetic. I may feel Abby is more sympathetic than others, but basically neither of them imo are meant to be all that sympathetic. The fact that Abby chose to respond in the way she did on finding out her husband was cheating was not surprising to have turned into something ugly. After all spouses have been killed for cheating for centuries, and still are. Just because one has the option of divorce and walking away does not mean people will still not react "badly" on finding out their spouse has been cheating on them.
shareI actually thought it was the wife from the beginning. Who would be least likely, etc ? His pal at work was obviously a red herring. Then Brosnan and his wife got in the way - but there was still something missing.
Anyway, liked the film, but it could have been better. Having James Bond himself jump up in the backseat like a Jack-in-the-Box was just silly.
'He's the only man I know who can strut sitting down.'
Throughout the first half of the movie I kept wondering who was taking care of the daughter. I thought it was all business related. Then when the husband was on the roof with the clock, and it was so obvious he had a fear of heights, only then I considered the wife was in on it. Because who else would have known that he had this phobia. I really knew it when she didn't go upstairs to see her daughter. Wouldn't a mother run to a child she thought had been kidnapped?
But really the first clue is you had to wonder who was babysitting the daughter.
I wish there had been a slightly longer ending that showed us more about the wife plotting with the Pierce Brosnan character.
i could tell if from the fking trailer! this movie sucked
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I knew she was in on it the moment she stopped Gerard Butler's character so drastically from calling the police while they were in the bank towards the beginning of the movie or so....
I thought it was very strange the man was acting like the woman and the woman was acting like the man, all composed and stuff.
"Empire Records, open 'til midnight".
When Neil winked at the secretary, all I suspected was that they're having an affair... getting the plot twist from that is a bit far fetched.
shareI knew Claudette Mink (Judy) from Harper's Island, and I heard that she is going to be someone's wife and a key character at the end. So, given that information, I suspected that Pierce Brosnan is her husband and that he is pissed of at Gerard for having sex with his wife. I expected that part.
On the other hand, at the end, I thought that Abby DIDN'T know about it all and that after he lied to her, and after all that she's been through (death treath, kidnapping, child in danger, ect.) that she'll find something at the car or house that confirms his affair and that at the end she is going to kill him.
About the child, somehow I suspected it was a bluff. I just though it was only Tom's, not Abby's.
I definitely thought it was a serious possibility that she set it all up once they revealed that he was having an affair.
shareI never suspected the twist.
And I also never suspected that some people would think this was a bad movie... Plot holes or not, I was anguished and anxious throughout the movie, desperate for the end of the ordeal.
I loved it.
Last night I watched this movie on dvd. From the moment Abby stops Neil from calling the cops while they are at the bank, I thought she was in on it. I guess I might have liked this movie better if the tagline on the dvd cover would not have been 'The most surprising twist of the year!', because I was waiting for something that turned out not to be surpising at all. In fact it was rather disappointing. Perhaps I should watch this movie again in a couple of years time, knowing the outcome of it, and just focus on the story and the acting. But a classic this movie will never be.
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