Based on the ending who is the James Ear Jones character? is he really Victor? Did he come posing as the ticket owner? If so how did the real owner who knocked on the door at the end find out about finding the lost wallet. Did the James Earl Jones character tell him? If so why? Very strange!!!
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That ending is fraught with problems.
I suppose we could assume that, since it was a phone message that was left for Victor, maybe his wife (brother in law, so he's married to Avery's sister) overheard it and told the real Avery?
But if this is Victor (and really, who else could it be?), what, he thinks he'll be able to just get the 6 million with no problems? His brother in law Avery won't notice that the numbers he's played for ten years won, and his brother-in -law cashed in the winning ticket? His wife will be fine with it?
So, what, he planned to skip town with the money? How? When? Just doesn't make sense.
To me, it felt like Probst tacked on that horrible twist ending as a last minute shocker, but made no attempt to have it make sense. Shame on him.
“I always tell the truth…even when I lie” - Scarface
It was a twist just for the sake of having a twist. After Ryan Reynolds hit him with the bottle, he said something to the effect of; the whole neighborhood probably knows he plays those numbers and they are waiting to throw him a party. I took that as a foreshadowing...James Earl Jones is either Victor (not believable as why would he tell his brother in law then pose as him?) or a person in the neighborhood who overheard Victor tell Avery...even though it makes sense, it is unrealistic because there's no real evidence that this was the intended interpretation. No matter how you try to make sense of it, it was just tacked on to add shock value to an otherwise interesting film. In my opinion, the ending prevented it from being a solid film and made it rather mediocre.
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