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Quite possibly the worst ending in movie history.


Seriously, it's like the writers just gave up or something. I've never seen such an abrupt and poorly conceived ending in my entire life. What an amateurish pile of sh!t this film is. Avoid it at all costs. * out of *****

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I just finished watching this movie and I thought the exact same thing. What a horrible ending. It didn't explain anything. All that build up for nothing.

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I'm hoping the sequel does well, so that the directors have enough money to make a special edition with an appropriate 3rd act. Researching how this film was made, the Strausses self financed it on a shoestring budget. The movie has great potentional, but you can tell they had to wrap it up hastily due to costs.

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Ironically aside from a few dud and very annoying characters the bromance in the beginning and middle was the only thing carrying the movie. Then they did a 180 for like the 3rd or 4th time into an entirely different and even worse movie that made no sense.

It's like 5 bad movies in one making the worst movie of all time. It was like listening to a toddler tell a story.

And then they were pirates and then a spaceship came and blew up all the Pokemon but they were saved by a shiny Pokemon and a boat in a car and explosions the end.

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I really like the ending.

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You are a moron. The ending is great, and quite obviously, was left open for a sequel.

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I am adding my two cents here bc I love your sign off. No longer watch John Ford movies bc of his blatant disregard for animals, not that I was much of a fan in the first place.

I liked this movie even though it was cliche in parts as were some characters. But I like Donald Faison and the guy who played the super.

Was there really a winner/loser here? They took the brains to insert them in their own forms. We became them and they became us. Evolution or de-evolution?

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I loved the ending too, one of my favorite things about the movie.

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Me too! It wasn't cliche or or predictable. Great cgi and practical effects. It is only disappointing if they never make a sequel.

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They ran out of money that's why they couldn't finish the ending. You do know this movie was made on a budget of only $10 million dollars? The results were pretty good for movie with lots of impressive effects on a threadbare, shoestring budget. A movie that looks like this would normally cost at least $30 million today. The directors happen to be visual effects engineers so they know how to make a good looking movie for cheap. James Cameron also had a background in special effects guy before becoming a director.

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True the ending was terribly abrupt but excellent visual effects though

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I don't get the ending myself, they get Jarrod's brain but now he has full control of an alien exoskeleton...WHAT?!!! That makes no sense, what made his brain so special to allow him to keep his Human self-conscious? And after that the movie just ends. I guess the people who made this movie ran out of money, that's why the ending seems so abrupt.

I say this movie is just poor, non of the characters are very likeable and they used video game level CGI. I suppose they did try to make it a good movie but it's not good enough.

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If you had paid any attention to the movie at all you knew why Jarod could control the alien.

I really don't like stupid people who think they know it all and their opinion actually matters...

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The ending left me saying WTF to myself.. But I'll give it credit, as they show the empty cities across America, it's one of the few alien movies that doesn't end with humans winning. In fact it's about the only movie I know where it appears we lose. But then again, I didn't quite get what was going on, so maybe we will come back. Anyone else I know who saw it also didn't know exactly what Halle Ed in the end. I think if it were explained better, more people may have liked it.

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