...the twist coming?
I knew before watching that there was a huge twist at the end so I pretty much had it figured out by the time he visits the Jurgen Prochnow character.
However, if I hadn't known to expect one, I think I would have been completely caught off guard.
Sort of. I thought early on that Max was manipulating him, but that it was going to turn out that Max was Otto all along (which I'm glad didn't happen because that's stupid).
shareHaha, I thought this exact thing too. Thankfully, the film delivered an ending that was a complete kick in the balls and was certainly unexpected. Great thriller, definitely a surprise. You wouldn't know that by looking at the DVD cover, it looks like one of those overdone middle aged-older man action films (i.e. Taken). Sadly mis-marketed film.
shareI was caught absolutely flat-footed. Never saw it coming.
shareI think I started to suspect only a couple of minutes before it was revealed.
And it's probably worth watching the scene again where the two men were talking and Prochnow's character said he could be honest to himself talking out on the balcony.
I think Prochnow's character thought that Zev was thinking they were buddies. So he could finally be honest.
I didn't know beforehand that there would be a twist, but during the movie, I kept thinking how it mirrored Memento in a lot of a ways, so I was sure Max was manipulating him. I considered he was Otto, but that was among other things that could be happening. I enjoyed it, even though I wasn't that surprised.
Actually I did... partly because a friend told me, "there is a cool twist at the end" so I was primed... but I strongly suspected that somehow Zev was actually the man he was in search of within the first few minutes.
...and Mrs. Taylor sure seems to use a lotta ice, whenever he's away
Right after it ended, the Music.
German Composers, Moszkowski, Mendelssohn and Wagner.
Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley
I didn't know about the twist as I tend to avoid boards because somebody always thinks it's not a spoiler that affects the viewer's experience to write, "What did people think of the twist ending?" in thread subjects.
I hate to know in advance, it colors every moment of watching it because you think of what it might be and also tend to figure it out way long before it happens lessening the impact.
As for the change-up, I knew something was afoot with Max when he was being so businesslike in the way he was pressing Zev into going--a real high pressure deal, and he had money, documents and all kinds of prep that didn't seem like just a guy setting somebody off on a revenge trip.
But until almost the last my suspicion was that Max might be Otto. And that he'd spent all those years hunting Nazis with Simon as some kind of ultimate cover. Hunting down all the people who might know WHO he is and this last guy was the big one--one that could get him into trouble and he wanted him dead. So sent Zev to get the last guy so Max could live out his life in his retirement place without worrying he'd spend his last days in in some German holding cell awaiting trial while so ill.
However, as soon as it was over i realized how stupid that was. Because Max had instructed Zev to call the police. And Zev had the letter. And Max would have be implicated in that murder, having written out the instructions and set Zev off.
Zev might have gotten off because of his dementia and just been held in a safe place unable to be tried.
But even at the end we would know the police would come calling on Max. He was going to have to answer for what he had done to arrange the murder--and the other murder was in there too.
So then I realized with the police having the letter from Max after going to the crime scene in Tahoe, sending Zev off to hunt down any Nazi who could incrimiate Max was a non-starter. Instead, Max would have been leading the police to his own door!
OMG! That was Jürgen Prochnow?! I didn't *even* recognize him.
I didn't know there was supposed to be any 'twist', but I caught it shortly after the piano playing, after they started talking to each other.
"She was possessed by a very simple idea that changed everything. That our world wasn't real."
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