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Deceptive Epilogue? Spoilers* Spoilers* Spoilers*


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In the epilogue, the film accurately states that at the time Kuklinski died in prison, he was scheduled to testify against a Gambino family underboss, and that foul play was suspected. Fine. What they failed to include was the fact that the Kuklinski family had the world renown forensic pathologist Michael Baden examine the results of Kuklinski's autopsy to determine if there was evidence of poisoning and that Baden concluded he died of natural causes. My opinion is that omitting this information is a bit deceptive on the part of the film maker. Am I too picky or does this bug anybody else? I realize trivial facts sometimes need to be altered a bit to "translate the story to the screen and make a better movie", but I am bothered when directors abuse this.

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It is a little bit deceptive yes, but at one stage after his death they did suspect foul play. So saying that 'foul play was suspected' is true, but it doesn't represent the whole picture. It's not exactly wrong either.

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they also said he never saw his family again which was not true





Emperor: Tell me how he died
Nathan Algren: I will tell you, how he LIVED.

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