liked it , but
I would have made it longer, a movies with thsi subject could have afforded a a few extra minutes and i would have used the 2nd alternate ending, where it flashes back to how vic and charlie came up with the plan./
shareI agree. The movie was pretty short and could've used another 20 mins or so. The alternate ending with the flashback may've worked only if Cusack lives as he does in the final film, I didn't like how he was killed in the alternate endings.
shareI loved the first alternate ending. He're Charlie, finally doing the first selfless thing in the entire movie and it winds up killing him! That's the point the rest of the movie was making! It was rather dissatifying to me that in the 'feature' ending he gets away with all his crimes. The rather poetic justice of him getting killed at then end (in the alternate endings) was much more in line with the existentialism of the rest of the film.
I'm sure the "happy ending" was not what was in the book, but you know how the American movie-going population just has to have their happy endings....
I like a poetic ending as much as the next guy but that ending was just wrong. I like the flashback alternate ending. That way if they would've killed Charlie they could've at least put an oompff in there with it so that it isn't just bang *spit blood* the end. Know what I'm sayin.
shareyea i liked the flash back ending but i also like where he lived somehow if they could be combined...
They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
I thought that the ending sequences in the movie bought it up a notch from mediocrity. I didn't care for the first half of the film. The most consistent form of entertainment in the film was Oliver Platt, who was nothing short of brilliant.
The performances were great as well. It's just that the first act just didn't click with me. Everything after Charlie met up Vic at his house with the guy inthe trunk the film got extremely interesting. After that, I loved it up until the end.
Would someone mind explaining the Witchita Falls line?
"I don't like so much freedom down there. It makes me tingly in my giblets."