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What a terrible ending!

posted 15 years ago by Degree7
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So as Edward Norton just creeps up on them strolling away from their train cart full of Gold, he decides that rather than shooting them all in the back, he should instead bribe what he thinks is the train official to get inside one of the cars.

Whoops! Turns out Marky Mark has set him up to be captured by the Ukrainians, and after a brief, witty exchange between the whole gang (reminiscing the ending of a Scooby Doo episode after they gather around the bad guy/monster who's in time to say "You Darn Kids!"), the Mafia thugs drag Norton off to his fate.

"Please, I'll pay you double whatever they're giving you, just don't shoot me!"

"Oh we're not going to shoot you. We have many machines in store that we think you might enjoy."

Then Norton pulls the biggest 'I've been suckered' face, as the gangsters carry him away to be fed into a sausage grinder.

BA DUM TISH!

Cut to the next scene where the rest of the team are congratulating themselves over champagne.

It's the PG-13 rating's idea of a happy ending, but with an unsavoury morbid twist that just gives the entire affair a sour taste.

[–] gnome-5 15 years ago

"he decides that rather than shooting them all in the back,"

I'm pretty sure that if he started shooting people, someone would hear and the police would arrive before he could get his gold out of the train.

And personally, I like the fact that Steve is going to get whacked hard for his treachery. The ending fits the story perfectly.

[–] Degree7 15 years ago

I'm pretty sure that if he started shooting people, someone would hear and the police would arrive before he could get his gold out of the train.

Hadn't stopped him from shooting people before, had it?

So you're saying the police didn't notice the massive highway robbery involving the detonation of a road with explosives around an armoured car, and a city wide chase involving motorcycles, helicopters and minis?

By this logic, he might as well gone at them with a chainsaw seeing as he was in a goddman deserted train yard.

Eternity is really long... especially near the end.

-Woody Allen

[–] gnome-5 15 years ago

"By this logic, he might as well gone at them with a chainsaw seeing as he was in a goddman deserted train yard."

The police are tied up in the city-wide traffic jam, same as everyone else. The helicopters might be flying too low to show up on radar (I'll admit that's a big gimmee). And you've never been to Union Station, have you? It's far from deserted. Security at the train station is not stuck in traffic, they're very close by.

Goddman?

[–] Degree7 10 years ago

And you've never been to Union Station, have you? It's far from deserted. Security at the train station is not stuck in traffic, they're very close by.

This makes no sense. Edward Norton was threatening them with a gun anyway, and it wasn't until the mobsters snuck up on him that he was apprehended. So how did Mark Wahlberg know that he wouldn't just start shooting at them as soon as he knew he was caught? Surely the security would then come and find all of this gold in the train compartments? At the very least, it would have made more sense for Norton just to shoot them all right away, and then try and take one of the cars with the gold.

Goddman?

Typo, genius.

~ I've been very lonely in my isolated tower of indecipherable speech.

[–] blazecentury 14 years ago

Shooting people in the back was unnecessary.
Besides, he's outnumbered, what if they have guns too.

If he managed to bribe Wrench (who he didn't know was part of them),
he would have got his gold back without Charlie and the gang knowing.

A perfect "risk-free" sneak attack.
He only killed the Ukrainian in the store because the guy knew too much,
and he was afraid he would start talking.