It made very little sense to me. Why was he torturing Amanda Peete's character with his insanity?
There was no reason to act crazy, as far as I knew...and why did he have to treat Oz like *beep* when Oz just needed help....???
Anyone have a plausible explanation to this?
shareWell, try putting it into this perspective. Jimmy Tudeski was a virile, macho sociopathic hitman, who commanded respect and fear in equal parts. People quaked with fear when they heard his name or saw his face. Now, in the sequel, he is retired, inconspicuous, and in isolation. Add to that the emasculation that was offset by not being able to be who he was and his erectile disfunction, and you have your reasons as to why he was acting so crazy.
Erm, the only explanation I could fathom was the same as the reason he made her drive away in the car - to protect her. Same reason he kept the cross on - it all seemed to be an attempt to make her leave him because he was worried about being found out. Pretty lame, though - he could have simply left her...
So at the end, when he's like: 'here, have this cross back,' it seemed to me he was saying, 'there, I'm over my insecurity thing now.' But you're absolutely right, it didn't make a lot of sense and wasn't really explained. At all!
Bruce Willis is a jerk and he convinced the director into showing his true 'real self'
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I know this is a really old thread.
It's been a about a year since I last watched it, but I believe Jimmy mentions late in the movie that everything he did in the beginning was planned, as a cover persona. Sorry I can't recall his exact explanation, but I'm sure someone else will find the scene. I remember something about Jimmy needing to convince either Oz or Lazlo that he was losing his mind, which he needed in order to kick start his scheme.
Why would he need to convince Oz he was insane! Oz was on his side all the time..
And I thought the erectile dysfunction excuse was because he was sleeping with Oz's wife and knocked her up too! He seemed to have beeped up almost everybody including Oz (why is my ass hurting.. I can't believe they made Chandler say that with a butt nude Willis waking up next to him).
Well, I happened to rewatch it on cable out of sheer boredom, and he tells Oz that he planned his crazy cover persona, including shooting at Oz in Mexico, from the very beginning.
I agree with the others, it's just a thin excuse to ham it up onscreen b/c it doesn't really make sense and doesn't add up very well.
Overall, I gave it a 6/10 for C+ entertainment, not much else.
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Script problems caused by the original screenwriter ONLY writing a synposis with the problems becoming worse in editing after Willis obviously didn't care at all about the plot or continuity.
They basically had no idea how much of Jimmy's character was an act or how far it went or how many people he was trying to trick. It was all pointless and all probably done because Willis had no intent of taking this movie seriously or actually do his scenes properly.
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No reason at all. I think that writers or Willis himself just thought they need some funny scenes and they decided that if Jimmy will behave like and an old crazy housewife then it will be funny. But it wasnt. It was cringe and I was embarrassed for everyone involved.
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