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The ending: Overkill?!

posted 11 years ago by Dejay
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I mean common, the guy just committed Seppuku and they still blast him to bits? That was a strange combination of overkill and mercy killing really.

I thought throughout the movie that the guy in the wheelchair did it. Why else would he tell him to "let it go"? I thought it was obvious that the guy in the wheelchair either wanted to remove his Russian competition and planted the Tokarev gun he had stashed, or that he wanted to get into business with the Russians but they wanted revenge for something Nicolas Cage's character did.

[–] nocturnus-x7 11 years ago

I suspected from the start that the kids were somehow involved, but I didn't guess how exactly.
As for the end, they had to kill him. If Cage's character killed himself, the Russian guy wouldn't really get his revenge

With my feet upon the ground I lose myself between the sounds

[–] Fox012 11 years ago

I watched it today and... the ending voids the storyline of the movie since there was no mob who attacked the house it was just a story made up by the kids and those people he killed in the movie died in vain! But yes I agree the ending was over the top when they blast him away after committing harakiri in the end Vanessa is now a widow and she has to deal with two deaths kinda sad IMHO

[–] moisan4 11 years ago

I figured the boyfriend did it. Either he orchestrated the kidnapping and something went wrong or with people he couldn't trust. So he could use the ransom money for tuition. Or the two boys raped and murdered her, and staged the break-in and kidnapping. With 90 minute run times, movies usually don't show the audience many things that aren't pertinent to the story. Too much time and emphasis was given to the boyfriend to not come up again later in the film.

[–] abandoned-401-205884 11 years ago

I thought the kids had something to do with it from the beginning also. If I was Nick Cage, I would have shot that kid anyway.