What kind of ending was that?? *HUGE spoilers*

Just saw the movie and i agree. The last 10-15 minutes did give you a what the hell just happened feeling. the last scene was extremely disappointing

Ah, but did the world explode? Smith's father is seen pondering whether to press the red nuclear button in an all white room, which is how Smith's visions/dreams were presented. Perhaps the end of the world was just a dream? Or perhaps the majority of the film was an hallucination? A lot is made of SMith eating a biscuit (at the party where the girl vomitted on his shoes). Perhaps the biscuit was loaded with drugs?


Now put that gun down Heidi! You’re not solving anything by massacring people!

well said, esp the bit about throwing in the towel. i actually enjoyed the movie and was sorely disappointed with the end. whoever wrote the ending needs to be bitch slapped, -immediately!.

the whole scene with them in the car was like D'fk!! What is happening....
like it seemed like a big "and then" ending.....where they have taken the story as far as it could go. and wrapping it up to tie up all the loose ends all the pointless character they introduced and say see there were important. and it was like WTF!!!!
And then it ends....

it just seems like one big trip,....or a crazy dream....where like a lot of things happen but you don't really know how it ends....and you know what, in dreams you dream but you never remember how it ends so its like the end doesn't matter...it's was came before it that was interesting and you remember that.

Oh and i don't think this movie got lable right. comedy, sci fi, mystery....okay ill give you the mystery. i didn't find anything funny about it.. i actually found it scary.....i was a lone at home watching it at night and kept thinking someone with animal masks were gonna take me....but

I guess im saying i didn't like it but i didn't hate it either...

I thought the ending was f'in brilliant. Bear with me.

This movie belongs to a genre which might be called Puzzling Weirdness, which in turn is a subset of the Puzzle movie, in general.

There are certain rules that anyone writing a Puzzle movie follows, when it comes to revealing What's Actually Going On. A Rulebook of Revelations, if you will.

One rule is to spread your revelations out over the whole third act of the movie. Another is to arrange the pieces of the puzzle so that they are revealed in the most dramatic possible order.

And the biggest rule of all is show, don't tell. For instance, if there is a character who is Not As They Appear to Be (and there almost always is), show us: let us see them doing the thing that is shockingly out of character so that, after a moment's thought, we suddenly realize Who They Really Are. Don't just have them show up and announce that they've been a double agent (or whatever) all along.

Kaboom breaks every one of these rules with giddy, gleeful abandon. In fact, almost all of the revelations come in the space of two or three minutes, and they are almost all in the form of Characters Who Know telling the Characters Who Don't Know what's going on. Precisely the way you're not supposed to do it.

So at this point the movie has become a commentary on our need to have our puzzles explained for us. The actual explanations offered -- and this is crucial -- are 100% satisfying in terms of quality science fiction; they only come across to some viewers as silly or inconsequential because of the intentionally rushed delivery. So the movie completely has its cake and eats it too; it's at the same time a very satisfying puzzling weirdness mystery and a wicked satire of same.

Immediately after this comes the movie's only action sequence, and it's extremely well done given the low budget look of the rest of the film. And it ends in the most realistic way possible: once both vehicles are headed down the "Bridge Out" road, there's no stunt-driving epiphany, they just all apparently go off the cliff.

Since all the characters in the movie are now dead, having Smith's dad trigger Armageddon (and I took the final "exploding planet" shot to be symbolic of the nuclear war being started, not literal) then becomes meaningless! By killing every character in the movie off, and then the rest of humanity about five seconds later ... the movie is basically saying, these are fictional characters who have no life once their story is over, and it's a fictional world that has no existence once the story is over, so why not kill all the characters and then everyone else on the planet? The movie's over; they have no life either way.

It's not for nothing that Smith is a film major. This is a very self-aware, postmodern flick.

Prepare your minds for a new scale of physical, scientific values, gentlemen.