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one thing I didn't like.. spoilers

posted 17 years ago by Foulmouf
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At the ending, when the big mob boss turned his back on Cusack, why the hell would he do that knowing he simply could shot him in the back off his head..

He even said himself to Cusack when cusack had the rifle pointed at him "If you wanted to shoot me you would have done it when you came in".. and then he has the chance to kill them and he stands there talking like some moron!

"Wake up and smell the coffin" - Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello, The Departed

[–] sErpEnt_v 15 years ago

The actual quote is
"If he was gonna pull the trigger he'd'a done it when he came through the door"

And this quite reasonably explains why he turns his back on Charlie.
He simply underestimates him (again), and does not believe Charlie has it in him to shoot.
Also, at that point Charlie has his foot staked to the floor with a knife.

While its not the smartest thing in the world to turn your back on any possible attacker, it would have been far more stupid to kill the already half-incapacitated Charlie first, and let Renata (wielding a pair of scissors no less) roam free.

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I don't know, Butchie, instead.

[–] ProfessorFate 15 years ago

The scene does suffer from the "chatty villian" syndrome you see in so many James Bond films (and parodied in the Austin Powers movies). "I could kill you now, but first let me explain my philisophy on life."

I did think Randy Quaid was perfectly cast as the mob boss. A brief but very effective performance.

"Push the button, Max!"