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I hated how abrupt the ending is

posted 11 years ago by FilmKoala
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I didn't hate the ending but I just hated how abrupt it was. It only wrapped up one of the film's three story arcs, albeit the most important one. Sugar and Joe end up together and that's great, I'm glad they did. It was a nice happy ending to a great movie.

But what about Jerry/Daphne being engaged? They ended it with a joke on the matter and it was really funny, but it didn't resolve that plot point. Fine, I can let that one pass on account of the joke that they ended it with.

And what about the gangsters? When the credits roll they're still after Jerry and Joe. Now I'm going to assume that Sugar and Joe's lives are just miserable because they're living in constant fear of being whacked. Not such a happy ending after all.

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[–] MichaelYYZ 8 years ago

The ending is simply perfect.

[–] jsharp47 8 years ago

Didn't the cop come in and say he was gonna make a ferderal case of what happened, I took that as all the gangsters were gonna be arrested and Curtis and Lemmon will be ok

[–] TheArgentinian (7251) 4 years ago

They escaped! What else do you need to know? Geez...

[–] MCguy (1346) 2 years ago

I haven't seen the movie, but I recently saw the Broadway musical. The gang is arrested by an Elliot Ness type character. So I am guessing the producers of the musical saw the same flaw.