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The very last scene (SPOILER)

posted 10 years ago by gutsarefallingout
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I've rarely rolled my eyes so hard during a movie...but OK. I was stuck, it was on, I watched it, I groaned. It was a neato cartoon. I like how Every Single Female Human Being he encountered got all breathy and held his gaze with a longing look. Even at Goodwill. And he walked through the bar crowd a full head taller than everybody else. Have you SEEN Tom Cruise? Hehe.

OK, but the FINAL SCENE, when the lawyer Hooters McBigguns is talking to the not-shooter in the hospital bed, after she says the conversation is privileged, and starting a tape recorder, she looks off-camera to smile, and the DISTRICT G.D. ATTORNEY is standing there with his arms folded.

I threw up lunches I ate in the 5th grade.

This movie. Is a bomb. Is a turd. Is Tom Cruise *beep*

But a good laugh. OH! And Werner Herzog! "My fingahs. In Sibeeeeeria. Gangrene". <head desk>

[–] joed1667 10 years ago

*****Spoiler*****

I was confused as to who the shooter was. First it looked like Reacher had shown Barr wasn't the shooter but then with Barr statement, it started looking like he was especially when he says about the sun and it not being in his eyes from the bridge. Sorry, I would need more than a photo to know the exact time of day and when the sun would be a factor so that leads me to believe he was in fact, the shooter. So what happened, do they prosecute or drop the charges?

[–] micirisi 10 years ago

It's been awhile but Barr was not the shooter. It was one of Zec's men. The victims were shot from the parking garage not the bridge. When Helen confronts him in his hospital room Barr says "I don't know, if they said I did it then I did it." She then shows the pics of the layout and asks where he shot (or would have shot from) and he says the bridge. (Same as Reacher had already told her thus he believing early on Barr was not the shooter.) She knows Barr is lying (about being the shooter) and surely does not prosecute him.

He killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. Guy was an interior decorator.

[–] bbonacci-1 9 years ago

You should watch a movie before you comment on it.
THEY SHOWED YOU THE SHOOTER RIGHT IN THE BEGINNING.
The whole story was about figuring out how Barr was framed.
HE SAID HE KNEW THE AREA VERY WELL ALREADY. IT DIDN'T JUST GO BY THE PHOTO.
Barr never said he did it. He just didn't remember anything and THOUGHT that he must have done it.
Before he went into a coma, he WANTED them to get JACK because he knew he was the only one who would investigate deep enough to find him innocent.

[–] justanicknamed 9 years ago

OK, but the FINAL SCENE, when the lawyer Hooters McBigguns is talking to the not-shooter in the hospital bed, after she says the conversation is privileged, and starting a tape recorder, she looks off-camera to smile, and the DISTRICT G.D. ATTORNEY is standing there with his arms folded.

And, on top what you said, there is no issue with this. As long as his lawyer is present, the DA is bound by the same rule as she is.

Had Barr said something incriminating, the DA couldn't have used it. Since Barr's statement is exactly how Reacher said it would have happened, the DA was convinced Barr wasn't the shooter and therefore declined to prosecute.

So, yes, he did use the privileged information, but Barr didn't object to that since it exonerated him.

[–] transmentalist 9 years ago

As long as his lawyer is present, the DA is bound by the same rule as she is.

Not exactly. She's bound by attorney-client privilege. Her dad's bound by the 5th amendment, since Barr never waived his Miranda rights. Either way, Barr's statements would be inadmissible.

Since Barr's statement is exactly how Reacher said it would have happened, the DA was convinced Barr wasn't the shooter and therefore declined to prosecute.

Added to which, the string of bodies leading up to Emerson, Charlie & the Zec would've been a dead giveaway

[–] joed1667 9 years ago

"You should watch a movie before you comment on it."

Pardon the hell out of me for having a comment. Sorry that people aren't as perfect as you are. You know where you can stick your condescending attitude?

[–] quincee33 9 years ago

Best photo ever! Caddyshack rules!