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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

[–] reagu 12 years ago

I thought the ending was just right. The woman stayed true to her character with revenge in mind, first and foremost. And this is not a Hollywood movie where the ending has to be rosy. Night of the Living Dead ended the same manner with the most likeable character getting killed.

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[–] lorddeseiz 12 years ago

Wow, am i onlyone actually watched the movie? Black bald guy shoots white bald guy, white chick goes berserk, later in movie she says shes pregnant, no mention who the father is, but um, wonder why she went berserk when the white bald guy gets one in the head.
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And yall wondering why she puts one in the head of the black bald guy?
Yay white chick id say. Now get your skinny ass out of there and run like hell.

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[–] nidirom 12 years ago

i question whether you watched the film. The father of the child was the cop who's funeral they where at at the beginning of the movie, not the older cop that gets shot in the head.

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[–] navylicious 12 years ago

I would have rather her still shoot the guy, but like non-lethal wound then leave him to fend for himself out in the open minus the ability to defend himself. I think the shot to the head wasn't cold blooded enough.

However, I really didn't like her overall character. She was too robotic. The only time she showed emotion was at the beginning when she *almost* lost it after the first zombie attacked them. After that, robot. It's cool to have a ruthless chick, but she didn't really have any depth after that one scene where she just snapped and decided everyone should die but her.

[–] BalanceOfPower 11 years ago

While I didn't love the ending (mostly in its execution), I see it as largely symbolic. She wanted revenge so much it consumed her, when our hatred consumes us it often destroys us as people; in this case, by being willing to shoot Ade she willingly destroys herself since the gunshot alerted the horde nearby (the last sound we hear as she looks off screen) and will be consumed literally by the horde. I thought that was a nice touch.

[–] watcher101 9 years ago

I hated that b*tch too. But the ending implies the zombies got her, as it showed her standing there, helpless, while we heard them coming.

[–] gothbreed 8 years ago

Don't be too sure that they got her. I am fairly sure there will be a follow up and it will show her all muscled up killing zombies by the hundreds only with her bare hands.

[–] red_skin123 8 years ago

I completely agree, she wasn't developed enough and not enough time was spent with her character to get to know her to make her killing him anything meaningful. It's unsatisfying and feels like the ending to a different movie. The writing really starts to fart out in the last half hour of this movie, and her lack of development that's supposed to feed into this punchline to the movie, just hurts the film even further.

I was really enjoying myself, thought her character was interesting up until after she looks in the mirror and snaps, because as someone else mentions, she disappears off the screen after that, emotionally, and physically, so we kinda don't have any real connection with her that makes the ending more poignant.

And them killing off the main character halfway through the third act for no reason what so ever, when the whole film is talking about his need for his teammates, helping them get out alive.

A way they could have made it better was to include him into the final confrontation, maybe still somewhat alive, maybe too injured to move, or stuck behind something so he can't interfere. A verbal confrontation of the three, as she's about blast him would have helped supplement an appropriate ending to what they were setting up, how she and him had the same viewpoint on revenge and how his viewpoint has shifted. But even after he begs her to let him go, Adewale gives him a knowing look as they both realise they have their roles as a cop and a gangster in this world. And the main dude bitterly accepts it as the Adewale calmly awaits her to pull the trigger. And she does.

Or have the main cop shoot her instead, killing her, and both of them sit there, in a new world with new rules, Adewale waits as the cop dies.
I don't know, thematically the film was leading to something, it just needed a stronger punchline to it's build up.