Wtf. I'm soooo pissed right now! The book ending was perfect. It was both a bad and a good ending and it was very satisfying. Why did they *beep* this up? Why create it to be a good ending and did they contain the virus? It ruins the amazing message the book sends out.
So yeah, I'm very pissed and can't believe Dan Brown signed off on this script.
Agreed. As usual, the safe formularic approach triumphs over the edgy provocative one. I guess you could say that film-making is a business and as such it all comes down to getting as many bums on seats as possible, and since a scenario depicting the bad guys winning would probably result in less bums, they played it safe.
The book's ending makes a lot more sense as to why Sienna went along with Zobrist's plan in the first place - they would restrict the human population without actually killing anybody. Neither Zobrist nor Sienna are murderers. The film instead turned them both into fanatical eco-terrorist types who thought nothing of wiping out billions to "save the planet".
As I watched the ending draw closer and it became increasingly apparent that the genuinely clever twist in the novel had been cravenly dispensed with, I wanted to jump up and down and curse. Disappointing, to say the least.
I agree with you! The best part of the whole book was the ending. I thought it was brilliant - easily one of the best book ending I've ever read.
I was watching this with my wife just so that she could think about the ending. What happened next was very disappointing. The moviemakers took the typical, Hollywood route unfortunately.