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A better ending should of been

posted 15 years ago by notorious_souljah_17
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I was a bit disapointed with ending it seemed unfinished just ends suddenly. A better ending that would be more exciting would be having Garber invovled with the heist all a long and be working with Ryder. Garber comes with the money they escaped together, the two catch a taxi and run along the bridge. then escape to a far away small town and celebrate but Garber becomes greedy and does a 180 stabbing Ryder in the back, shoots him dead takes all the money then continues his life. Who thinks that would be much better?

[–] blikst 15 years ago

Them working together would have been 10x as stupid as the current ending. You would also get a buck load of people like you that would be claiming the movie sucked because they could see the ending from a mile away...

[–] lovedawn 15 years ago

I think a better ending would have been the entire audience anally raping Tony Scott! (After all, he's been doing it to paying audiences for years)

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[–] JetBlack88 15 years ago

I was hoping that Ryder and Garber would turn out to not only be in on it together, but to be gay lovers. They would make out as the camera panned around them and their tongues slopped all over eachother, then it would go to credits.

[–] hubcap18 15 years ago

I had no problem at all with the ending. Ryder nad his accomplices are dead, Garber goes home with his milk, and his life goes on. Not every single movie has to have some huge plot twist or major event at the ending. The mayor was very grateful for all that he had done, but was it mentioned that he was going to get his good job back? That was one thing that may have been left unresolved.

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[–] Nikkibix 15 years ago

We thought it would have been better ending when the taxi took a hard left, before Garber commandeered the vehicle. That way there wouldn't be a stupid stand off on the side of the bridge, resulting in Ryder's death, and the audience left wondering WTF!! Seriously, you embezzle money, all but $2m gets returned. You invest the $2m and turn it into $307m, manage to get another $10m from the city, all to just die at the end?! Dumb dumb dumb.

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[–] mithril_19 15 years ago

Not only to die, but to actually surrender and plead for death. Very bad ending

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[–] FurySerenity 15 years ago

I thought it was going to end with both Ryder and Garber getting shot. Close to death, Garber tells the mayor or hostage negotiator, "Get a half-gallon of milk for my wife" and then dies, and it ends with them delivering the milk to her.

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"BITCH!"
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[–] nutsberryfarm 14 years ago

that would really be milking the milk for all it's worth.

I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"

[–] clairus99 14 years ago

i didnt like him begging to be killed and then his being killed. i think he should have killed himself like blue in the original.... or, being on a bridge, jumping off.

and it would have tied in a little with travolta's role in "saturday night fever", lol ;o).

[–] Nick_Stone22 15 years ago

A Better ending should have been Ryder and Garber stood in the middle of the traffic on the bridge,dancing and singing "You're the one that I want" and all the NYPD guys join in. They finish up the song,Ryder takes a bow and everyone opens fire...Fade to credits.

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[–] lekgolah 15 years ago

A plot twist would have made the film a lot more exciting. Instead he just shot him and went home as usual like nothing had really happened that day.

[–] Scott-101 15 years ago

I don't think Garber needed to take it in his hands. Garber was a civil servant and probably not someone who had ever handled a gun. It just didn't seem believable that he would have been able to take the shot or would have seen it as his duty to stop an embezzler from getting away.

Garber acted decisively in the moment when lives were at stake. But no lives were at stake when the guy was just getting away, it was highly unlikely that he was going to kill other people again.

Also, I thought the idea that Ryder was playing the market and not after the original $10 million was a great twist

[–] catcherbloq 14 years ago

Thank you! That was the problem with the whole script. What was Garber's motivation for putting himself at risk by chasing after Ryder? He didn't behave as though he wanted revenge. And, I am not buying the redemption angle either. They left it ambiguous as to whether he was guilty of having taken the bribe, and even if he had, how could risking one's life after just having talked to one's wife who was pleading to you to return home safely be justified? There were thousands of cops all over the city who were better equipped to nab the bad guy. I thought he had already found redemption (if he needed it) by agreeing to deliver the money. He could have walked away from that situation and said "screw the hostages," but he chose to go, and then escaped, and even when he was in the clear, he chased after him. Why? It drove me crazy.

I get that they needed the ever-so-predictable final showdown between them, but it could have been done so much better...for instance...Garber doesn't escape but someone how manages to tip off police to their whereabouts due to his extensive knowledge of the transportation system...Ryder is the last one of the bad guys to be left alive and when caught in a corner, makes an attempt on Garber's life, blaming him for *beep* up the getaway...naturally, Garber manages to stop him by grabbing some hidden track-change lever or something, knocking Ryder onto the train tracks and electrocuting him just as he's aiming for Garber's head.

Yeah, I know that would be the typical formula for ending a heist film, but it would have been better than what they did. It's almost as if the writers got tired and said what do we do next? We need to wrap this up. Let's just have him chase Ryder for no apparent reason, armed only with a pistol that he's not trained to use and have then face off on the Manhattan Bridge where there are no more than five other slow-moving fat cops who seem to take 30 minutes to get close to their position.

Lazy, lazy writing. They might as well have made it turn out that Ryder was a robot or an alien all along. Or, maybe Garber should have turned out to be his long lost half-brother. Heck, anything. I know this remake was supposed to be truer to the novel, so was the novel this bad, or did it explain any of what didn't make sense in the film?

[–] mindstamina3000 14 years ago

I don't think Garber needed to take it in his hands. Garber was a civil servant and probably not someone who had ever handled a gun. It just didn't seem believable that he would have been able to take the shot or would have seen it as his duty to stop an embezzler from getting away.

Garber acted decisively in the moment when lives were at stake. But no lives were at stake when the guy was just getting away, it was highly unlikely that he was going to kill other people again.

Also, I thought the idea that Ryder was playing the market and not after the original $10 million was a great twist

Had Ryder had escaped, they would had seriously questioned Garber about any involvement with Ryder. With his current situation due to him taking a bride in the past being a factor, they would had really had given it to him.

He wasn't going to let Ryder get away, especially after a hostage was shot while Garber was trying to calm him down.

And it was the cops that gave him a gun to handle himself, he had the go ahead anyways.

[–] woodpusher 14 years ago

The twist ending of the original was much better. The bad guy should have *almost* gotten away with it, but somehow tripped himself up in some strange way.

[–] lighttimeonfire 14 years ago

Ya I also thought the ending was unbelievable, garber shouldn't have had the guts to go after him and should've escaped the other tunnel path. I would've liked it a lot more if Ryder got away with his cash