libra113, I agree with alot of what you said in your post. There were a few things that bugged me as well:
1) Very early on, in fact, I think it was the first day the repeating started, all three of them figured out what caused them to be stuck in the same day. It was the fact that they all received the electrical shock from the prior night during the storm and subsequent blackout. While it kind of bugged me that they were able to figure this out so quickly (I thought it would at least take a few days of repeating before they deduced this), the thing that mainly bothered me was that them knowoing what caused it was completely irrelevant. Even though they were repeating the same day and the storm kept occuring, the blackout which occured on the 1st night never happened again, did it? I thought they were going to have an opportunity to "monkey around" with what they could do to stop it from happening. Like, "should we not accidently shock ourselves this time?", etc. But, that didn't happen.
2) I understand the logic that Sonia and Kyle made their ammends so they were no longer stuck in the loop. But, did they make their amends on the exact same day? Was the night that Kyle finally got through to his sister in her room the same day that Sonia finally went into the room and spoke with her father? I can't recall, but if it wasn't, shouldn't one of them had been releaesed from the loop already instead of the both of them still being stuck?
I get the whole amends thing, but what I had originally thought was that Mike needed to die and once this happened the loop would end. Sonia and Kyle both accidently died and they were still stuck in the loop. It was at that point that I started to think that Mike is the one that was supposed to be dying because he was truly evil and never actually had any intention of making amends with anyone, let alone his father. In fact, I don't get why he was in rehab at all. He was just so evil and was so quick to take advantage of the fact they were repeating the days so that he could do evil things and not good ones like attempting to save the jumper on the bridge. He relished in causing other people harm and knowing that he would get away with it was just the icing on the cake for him. I mean he raped someone, just because he knew he wouldn't get caught. Regardless of her age, he raped someone, and then tried to do it again the next day. But then the movie ended with Mike in fact waking up, so that blew my "Mike needed to die" theory right out the water.
In fact, like another posted noted, I thought he was going to go on the run after realizing they were no longer repeating because he was totally screwed. He had killed those two cops, for the 2nd time I do believe (no mask or anything, forensic evidence everywhere) and who knows what else. But instead, he went to Kyle's family home to hold his sister hostage which I thought was so dumb. I never got the impression that Mike felt as if though Kyle had the life he never had or something to that effect. In fact, both of their lives had been pretty crappy and it wasn't as if any of Mike's actions once they started repeating were Kyle's fault so that whole scene with him threatening to kill his sister and her friends made no sense to me.
I've wathced a lot of stupid horror and thriller movies lately, and don't feel as if though this was one of them. In fact, I'm really indifferent, I didn't think it was good or bad, I just wanted to add to the discussion and hear some other thoughts on the movie.
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dmc101
12 years ago
It's not nearly as complicated as you people are making it out to be. If it were, it wouldn't be so predictable. It's just bad writing. Don't turn a child's finger painting into a Picasso by inferring attributes that aren't there.
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kcolli11
12 years ago
To answer your question, yes, they both made amends on the same day.
Also, I agree that both Kyle and Mike had "crappy" lives in the sense that they were drug addicts. But Mike's dad was in prison, and we don't really get to see much else about his life. Meanwhile, Kyle has a seemingly nice mother, a sister, a nice looking home. It just doesn't seem like Kyle lived through the hell that Sonia lived through with her father.
Mike wasn't blaming his actions on Kyle. He was blaming Kyle for turning on him. I mean, Kyle did confine him in a boiler room all day and let him sit in his own piss. That's gotta be infuriating.
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