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The ending was awful! (spoilers)

posted 15 years ago by keirmartin
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I'm so angry. I loved the movie but the ending was just horrible. The woman had to become an absolute idiot at the end of the movie. She was such a bitch and I wanted her to die, she was so ungrateful for the other guys sacrifice (which was bad-ass by the way) She said she didn't care about him even if he was family yet she kills Markudi because he kills a member of the family I believe? What kind of *beep* is that? She just contradicts herself at the end and kills a man who without, she'd be dead.

She was by far the worst character in the film. She was unlikable and just plain stupid and selfish. At least the two gangsters while stupid were charismatic enough to be likable. The only characters I really liked were Markudi and the moustached badass (who I was lead to believe was the main character until the end.)

Anyway, I loved the movie, the whole feel to it was great and I can say this is definitely one of the best zombie movies ever made. It has a whole new feel to it and it's refreshing to see something good for a change rather than the recent crap Romero has coughed out, I feel the man's losing his touch.

I give it a strong 7-8/10

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[–] FortySecondStreetFreak 14 years ago

The ending was an honest ending!

The only reason they were there was to kill that guy (not a nice guy at all but a murderous drug dealer!), SHE was only there to kill that guy and they would have if all had gone to plan.

Who cares if you both managed to escape? Does that suddenly not make him a cop killer who you came to kill?
No.

It was a ballsy, honest to its set-up and characters, ending. Anything else would have been a multi-plex fiendly, limp, cop-out.

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[–] heather8-1 14 years ago

I completely agree with FortySecondStreetFreak. It was keeping honest to her character. She said she didn't care about anyone sacrifices, she only cared about what she was there to do. She is a hard core bitch. She went for revenge at any cost....even at her own demise....you could hear the dead coming for her after hearing the gunshot....sequel?

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[–] heather8-1 14 years ago

So true.....

[–] starcraftbw88 14 years ago

Except Ade was the one who stopped the others from doing it...

[–] pavlic 15 years ago

I didn`t like the whole movie.

[–] TheKillingJoke1991 15 years ago

And don't forget that the cops ( including that ignorant bitch ) were getting owned big time by the gangsters before the zombies came.

[–] Skirza 15 years ago

I liked the ending. It suggested to me that her need for revenge was overpoweringly strong.

I didn't like the character really either, but only because it was well acted and we aren't meant to like her.

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[–] MaxPopcornPower 15 years ago

Actually after she shot Ouessem the sound of the gun shot attracted another 'hoard' of zombies you could hear approaching O.S. before the film cut to the credits.

Perhaps the cost of her revenge. Perhaps shows what she did was not righteous.

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[–] spotlightne 14 years ago

I think that was the ending. I could hear a mass of zombies approaching.

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Re: The ending was awful! (spoilers)
by Joanna_Craine (Thu Jun 10 2010 10:44:23)
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I really think she should have killed herself, or the final scene should have been her in the middle of the parking lot with zombies moving toward her from every direction.

I'm a woman. Sometimes I'm insecure. Simple words can reassure me and make things better.

[–] knot_16 14 years ago

the "good guys" are not always the cops, and the good guys don't always make it in the end, and it does seem her act of revenge is what gets her an off screen death...

[–] damalc 14 years ago

the cops got "owned" because the security guy came down the hall yelling that they should use his shotgun.

[–] ikuto-yagawa 15 years ago

She deserved her revenge. The zombies were irrelevant.

[–] paultagonist 15 years ago

If those two were the only ones to escape, than the ending was inevitable. We knew she was going to kill him as soon as they got out of there. I agree that it'd be smarter to team up with him awhile longer, for her own good, but I don't think she was thinking straight. Her lust for vengeance blinded her.

The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery. -Fred Alan Wolf

[–] TheKillingJoke1991 15 years ago

But on the other hand, you can't say the gangsters didn't deserve it. These guys were ruthless lol

[–] paultagonist 15 years ago

Oh definitely. I'm not saying they didn't deserve it, just that she could've held off until they were in a relatively safe place or something. But still I can't blame her.

The real trick to life is not to be in the know, but to be in the mystery. -Fred Alan Wolf

[–] pedropedrozaa 15 years ago

You know something? I totally forgot about how cruel Markudi's gang was. In fact, Markudi's character kinda grow on me: from villain to anti-hero, his dark humor and how he managed to survive in the end...that I completly forgot he killed the woman's fiance.

So even if I didn't like the ending, more or less I understand her feeling of revenge. Btw, at least we have the small consolation that she was bitten, so in the end she has to die too.

[–] couzijn 15 years ago

There's no blind panic in her eyes, before, during, and after she executed him. It was obviously what she intended to do, calm and collected.

The reason is simple: she knew that the two of them would not stand a chance with the horde of zombies unevitably coming after them - and indeed we hear them coming onto her only seconds after she shot the guy.

She just wanted to get what she deserved - revenge, his execution - before the zombies would get to them both, and then she would not have the opportunity for revenge any longer.

She accepted the fact that she would die at the hands (and throats) of the zombies anyway. We witness that in the last seconds of the movie.

It's as simple as that.

Michel Couzijn

[–] mcarter71 15 years ago

Well than she did him a big favor by making it quick and painless. In the end she only played herself!

[–] Ulf_ 15 years ago

i was impressed what they done with the low budget,
but the ending totally ruined the movie. it's a shame.

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[–] kid_buu101 15 years ago

Yeah that woman was a total b*tch. She's a total pain in d ass since d beginning. Or perhaps they're tryin to make a franchise out of La Horde, and put that woman as the heroine, just like RE? Lols

[–] Fattycakes 15 years ago

If i liked the female survivor in the 90s remake of Night of the Living Dead, it was because she was she relatively strong for a female character in a zombie movie (at least by the end). The woman in La Horde i was indifferent to till she had that fight with chick zombie and kills the zombie after a good satisfying fight.

The tension she caused between the two groups was great but it felt unsatisfying that she killed Ade at the end. Ade's affection for his brother but also the fact he was unable to save him was powerful. That b1ch had no reason to be so cruel to the guy that sacrificed himself in the carpark either.

It is also a great shame the lunatic old man did not survive, he was pretty badass.

If they both survived, a sequel could continue from the carpark as they are both forced to work together to keep surviving.

[–] xtomatex 15 years ago

Did you realize that the woman became crazy and than develop mad fighting skill just like in the descent?

This is how female caractor develop in horror zombie flick, and it's fine with me.

Also, this movie have a strong social message. In France, most people from suburbs (especially black) are seen as ignorant, sauvage and idiots. The ending strongly suggest that the reverse is possible. The ending also suggest that people can change (for the good or bad) depending on the situation. The black dude «Ade» said something about how him and his brother got discriminate back in the days. Society in France isolate people in suburbs. The message in this movie is strong: The good has become zombie (people living in big city, we can figure it out by looking at they horizon) and the bad moffo «Ade» became good. Paradoxaly, the good woman at the start, the one with heart slowly became evil.

You need to know about France before judging about the ending and how some caractor develop.

P.S: Sorry for my english, im from Quebec.

[–] i_hate_every1 15 years ago

thanks for that it kinda explains alot. :)

p.s english was fine. better than most people from england lol

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[–] litobrigg6 15 years ago

yes terrible , They couldve done a reverse ending. Already the thought had been suggested that she was going to kill him the second shegot the chance. So they couldve had him killher before she did him then the zombiesscreams. Making it be like while his character grew in a sense he could never chang due tohis past always catching up to him . I got a Sixth sense, because I see dead presidents!

[–] grynet 14 years ago

Thank you for highlighting those issues. Is there a chance that on top of the racial and class issues we are also dealing with sexism (I am not familiar with sexism in France, a lot? A little?), and that is where we might not understand completely where the female character is coming from?

It's all "her fault" for having a uterus and getting pregnant, it's "her fault" for sharing this with the father of her child at a time that was inconvenient for him. No blame is laid on the other party (he was also having sex with someone he shouldn't have been having sex with), only her. She sees him getting shot a handful or more times by Ade. Why on earth should she spare him?

They abandon her with a member of the "family" who she can see is turning before her, albeit slowly. She is then blamed, again, for protecting herself and her group by killing the infected member.

It's so easy to turn blame on what is perceived to be the weakest member of a group, and being female certainly branded her as such, but I feel she did really well all way through, even if I didn't particularly like her in the beginning.

I loved that they didn't give any context to the infection. It wouldn't have mattered in there in the building. They were living on borrowed time, getting out was their only priority. Knowing what caused the chaos would not have changed that in the slightest.

[–] MaxPopcornPower 15 years ago

I loved the ending. Considering that it was supposed to create conversation.

I've never really cared about how a film ends. I mean, look how Taxi Driver ends. Just completely uncouth. But it makes you realise, it's just an ending. It doesn't affect the rest of the entire film if you simply don't allow it to. Or at least that's how I see it. You might as well give it an ending that's gonna be controversial with the fans than something that will satisfy and not leave them talking about it.

Or maybe that's cruel.

I'll give it 6 severed heads rolling down a hallway out of 9. (Do math now)

[–] Edren 14 years ago

It reminded me of Night Of The Living Dead(1968) and the way Ben is aggravatingly killed at the end.

Life is just one damned thing after another - Elbert Hubbard