movie was actually pretty good, but the ending was corntastic.
It just felt like a movie that should have ended tragically, to me. Ya know, like jericho losing billy and being afraid that he would hurt his family, so he commits suicide, leaving the money somewhere for billys family. that kind of tragic.
did anyone else feel like this?
I expected him to die heroically saving them.
What would the legal ramifications be of "giving him a job".
Was he ever given or promised a full pardon if he cooperated? What about the cops he killed in the car taking him back to prison AND the innocent bystander he killed?
Stealing the cars,roughing people up, all the littler crimes can be forgiven by society and pardoned since he defeated a major terrorist organization and some of the killings were justified (the villains).
But what about the value of human life? He still murdered at least 3 people during the events of this movie.
And can we ever know for sure he won't snap again?
If the Pope personality totally wound up overwriting Jericho, then i can see his not being accountable any longer for the death of those cops and civilians. But from what i gathered in the beginning, he was just Jericho with Pope's memories and newfound emotions. So who knows. But that's what i'm going with to make sense of the ending and those questions.
shareThe people in the car are not cops, they were CIA agents. Also, they were not going back to the prison, Gary Oldman said 'take out the trash' and you Jericho clearly see one of the agent preparing a weapon in the front seat.
The moment the surgery was done and he couldn't help them, he became a liability.
Yeah, I agree completely. I would have liked to see him die heroically, after a lifetime of being a bad guy, redeeming himself in a final act of good. That would have been great.
The happy ending we got felt a bit contrived.
And yes, it's hard to imagine the law enforcement forgiving him for all the crimes he committed. Even if we the audience know he's a good guy now, we have to remember that from the perspective of the other people in that world, there's no reason they don't still see him as a killer.
The movie was straight B movie status. The whole thing was corntastic. The ending was perfect. Complete nonsense.
I give it an 8 out of 10 for being so bad it was hilarious.
Yeah it was tied up into a neat bow, that was weird.
Lose the Game!!!!!!!
I kept waiting for a twist like Gary Oldman's character secretly working for the Spaniard. You know, and Reynolds' character was the only one who knew it, and now Coster's character knew it. I've seen Oldman as a bad guy in so many movies that I was expecting him to be bad.
shareThat would have been an interesting twist, I kinda wish they had done that.
shareTypical Hollywood ending. I liked the premise of the movie, but they just took some wrong directions. Could have completely changed the whole movie by changing those last few minutes.
I thought the rating was going to be low going in, but it's accurate, if not overrated now that I think about it. I gave it a 6/10 and that's probably generous. Just didn't like how it concluded.
I want to believe that the CIA agent lied to that stupid doc about "giving him a job". After the family left, that murderer would gets shot in the head by the agent that already was about to aim his gun and then dumped in a back-alley somewhere. A lot of things were ridiculous in this film, but the ending was just plain out unwatchable.
shareI agree, the movie should have ended with a confused psychopath that has conflicting of memories of hate and extreme violence giving him pleasure and now love and goodness too. Not this cheesy crap. "I'm going to offer him a job" ....double face palm...sigh....
I can't image this was the original ending, I suspect it was an afterthought of a retarded hollywood executive...