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Something not quite right about this movie


It seems like a typical, not too smart, kinda funny action movie. But at the end it gets strange. Tom Cruise's character is supposed to be dead (but miraculously great things keep happening to his parents). He and Cameron Diaz talk about their bucket list wishes and by the end they've miraculously come true. The bad guys are worse shots than stormtroopers in Star Wars. They spray thousands of bullets and can never seem to hit the heroes.

The end has a dream-like quality and for some reason they go to Cape Horn and Tom Cruise's parents get tickets to Cape Horn. But there really isn't anything at Cape Horn. It is like the Antarctic there. I wonder if they even have an airport. Only a small one, if they do. Why would the writers pick Cape Horn? It is all sort of crazy, like maybe it was all a dying dream where wishes come true in strange ways.

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Cape Horn is so out of the way that Roy can once again meet his parents without anyone's knowledge! The guy's definitely getting out of the business (considering that his own group was going to kill him) so June decided to get them all back together for a bit. Who knows, with their wealth, maybe they can retire near there!

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You....didn't get parts of the movie.

Cruise's character (Roy Miller) intentionally lets Diaz's character (June) hear him talk to the girl so June - thinking Roy really is the bad guy - will set him up. Roy proceeds to escape and fake his death. Roy does this so June can be safe, go back home and make her sister's wedding.

And then when Diaz's character stumbles upon Cruise's home, she realizes he's a good guy and intentionally gets captured because she know Roy will save her.

(but miraculously great things keep happening to his parents)
Wow, you REALLY didn't get it. The suggestion is the Cruise character pulls strings to take care of his parents. Hence they win lotterys they didn't even enter....and the joke is that they're old and the wife thinks her husband enters things on the computer and doesn't know what he's doing.

The end has a dream-like quality and for some reason they go to Cape Horn and Tom Cruise's parents get tickets to Cape Horn. But there really isn't anything at Cape Horn. It is like the Antarctic there. I wonder if they even have an airport. Only a small one, if they do. Why would the writers pick Cape Horn? It is all sort of crazy, like maybe it was all a dying dream where wishes come true in strange ways.
Not quite Antarctica....it's still South America. But what's it matter? It's where Roy dreamed of going, so that's where they go. And June arranges for a reunion with his parents there. Nothing more than a cute, feel-good ending.

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Not to be too mean but your choice of the words "not too smart" are pretty funny in light of what you didn't understand in the movie. So it's not a very smart movie because you didn't get parts of it? Or it's not very smart and yet still you didn't get parts of it?

Were you thinking it wasn't very smart and you understood everything and then the movie just didn't make sense? Movies don't have to explore obscure psychological or historical or scientific or academia-of-any-sort material just to be smart. Can't they just be detailed or complicated or just a little bit vague? Maybe this was just an action movie but you DO still have to pay attention to follow the twists and innuendos, not genius material but smart enough to be fun in my opinion.

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it condones reckless driving, which is sorta offensive.




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Reckless driving is offensive? Well then I should stop doing it! Just kidding. I'm a safe driver when it comes to cars. Shopping carts are a different story



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a cart menace is a threat to life as we know it!



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Don't try to make sense of things which aren't meant to make sense



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