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The ending was SO bad!!

posted 12 years ago by roxist
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It completely changed the characters.

The killer changed his MO when he wanted to torture Casey and not kill her like he killed Leah.
Jordan went out on the field and when she dropped her phone in the dungeon she made the decision to go after the phone instead of going to ask for help in another way?
Casey was this little cute teenager who cried thinking about what was going to happen and at the end of the day she stabbed the killer with a pair of scissors AND then suggested they should leave him there tied up to a chair?
Jordan agrees to the ideas of a 15 year old instead of calling her colleagues at 911 to report that they have the killer?

Also, now they have to lie saying that Jordan found Casey in the woods?
The police are going to want to know where she escaped from and why does Jordan have bruises on her...there's going to be questions. If by any chance someone will find the killer's body strapped to a chair, will no one take the prints from the chair / tape and other things in the room?
such a bad idea, this ending.

[–] pari213 12 years ago

Regardless of who liked the end of not I have to say that this movie was fast paced from beginning to end. It did keep me going, so it wasn't so bad for me.

[–] netsirc 12 years ago

Same here, I'm watching a fictional film, not a documentary. If it was supposed to be completely realistic then we wouldn't have a movie. Jordan would have been moved from that call because of past issues from the get-go. All I care about was that it was plausible to an extinct and it had my heart racing and I felt emotionally invested in it. I was entertained the entire time, couldn't take my eyes of the screen. I'm happy with the ending if the Jordan and Casey characters were satisfied, and they were (even if I would have handled things differently) so that's that. I enjoyed the movie and I can only speak for myself.

Oh, and judging from the original comment, the person complaining isn't much of a deep thinker. The scalping scene was pretty self explanatory, he wasn't torturing anyone. Also Leah's body didn't have any hair in the news video. If I were to re-watch the scene, she probably had the same blue feather in her hair in the beginning that we see him yank out in anger from the scalp in the end. Obviously the killer didn't kill Leah in her house or it would have been easier to leave the dead body there since he knew the 911 call already happened and the police were on their or at least there would be enough blood evidence that she was already dead so she wouldn't be labelled a missing girl. People need to pay attention to scenes in movies, thrillers especially. Each scene is an important part to the big puzzle.

[–] harlowfan 12 years ago

I loved the ending. Very satisfying. I don't think it was clichéd at all. I definitely didn't see it coming, but I loved it. It would've been clichéd for them to call the police... or for him to get away with it. And Jordan mocking him at the end with his smart-a little phrase before shutting the door, "It's already done." haha!!! Loved it.

And it actually does leave it open for a sequel... it'd be far-fetched for him to get himself loose and free, but hey, it's Movieland.

[–] real_pennywise 12 years ago

It wasn't just the ending, the film actually switched over to a bizarro universe when the police (I guess the FBI was not interested in a child abductor on a killing spree) arrived at the killers house in the woods, didn't immediately find him and left without leaving a single officer there. Without searching the house for evidence and information on where else the killer could be. They didn't even bother to put their yellow crime scene tape over the front door.
So it's the 911 operator who is the only one to actually investigate the house ...
Then she finds the dungeon, pulls out her phone (a glimmer of hope, someone actually doing something that makes sense) ... and conviniently drops it into the dungeon ... I couldn't stop facepalming for several minutes and my head still hurts from that.
Did nobody read that script and say "Ok that's just too damn stupid, we have to find a better way to get her down to the killer. Maybe he just hid in the house and ambushes her from behind before she can make the call or something like that. If we just let her drop the phone and have her go after it, even the dumbest audience members will realize that your 6 year old son wrote the last act Mr. scriptwriter."

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[–] crc-4 12 years ago

Also, now they have to lie saying that Jordan found Casey in the woods?
The police are going to want to know where she escaped from and why does Jordan have bruises on her...there's going to be questions. If by any chance someone will find the killer's body strapped to a chair, will no one take the prints from the chair / tape and other things in the room?
such a bad idea, this ending.

No jordan would most likely just claim she went home. Casey would just clam she got away.

[–] real_pennywise 12 years ago

No jordan would most likely just claim she went home. Casey would just clam she got away.

But there's still a tiiiiny risk of the police suddenly doing their job, like searching the killer's house and finding Jordan's prints all over it. And footprints all over the dusty earth outside or her tire tracks or maybe some blood from the killer who got f&%§#ing stabbed there or pieces of the broken phone ...

[–] doug_park2001 12 years ago

I agree that the ending is quite bad. It was totally unbelievable and out-of-character that Turner would go after the killer on her lonesome. It does, however, make it pretty clear that he's going after young blonde girls because they remind him of his deceased sister. He wants to cut off the girls' scalps and then dispose of the rest of them--that's supposed to be Leah's scalp we see him playing with in the dungeon. He WAS going to kill Casey after removing her scalp, but Jordan arrived just in the nick of time. Again, unbelievable.

[–] Miscella 12 years ago

I didn't mind it. It could have ended with Jordan calling the police and teams of officers swarming the scene while Jordan and Casey embraced, zoom out to a view similar to the news footage of Leah's grave, fade to black, roll credits. Yawn. It was only five minutes. Think of it as a bonus; a little something extra to avoid such a boring ending.

To be quite honest, I was actually pleasantly surprised. When I saw him chained to that chair, I thought they were going to scalp him and dismember him or something. Now THAT would have been over the top...

[–] Napok 12 years ago

Couldn't agree more.

“ Ma vie n'est qu'un interminable effort pour échapper aux banalités de l'existence.. ”

[–] WhoDeyLeisure 12 years ago

He didn't "torture" either of them. He wanted them for their hair. He wanted hair to match his dead sister. The last girl didn't match completely, she had purple strand, so he killed her.

He was about to scalp Casey.

[–] wayofthejeep 12 years ago

Also, the revenge angle didn't make sense. Halle's was hung up on letting the first girl die, and desperately needed redemption. If she has turned the guy into the police, he likely could have been further investigated and found guilty of the first girl's murder, and this would have given closure to the victims family.

Its also likely he could have been found guilty of other murders and given the closure and redemption to all those families as well.

What does leaving him in a hole do for anyone?

[–] shellyolinger 12 years ago

the possibilty of him never doing it again or getting off on a technicality .him dying down there would be vendication to all the girls he killed . in my opinion
yeah i said it so.....

[–] wayofthejeep 12 years ago

He wouldn't get off on a technicality. They'd have WAY too much evidence stacked against him.

The girls and family members would never get vindication this way. The families never know he was killed by the girls, and would always think he was still out there.

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