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posted 9 years ago by mpman
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Jim (Nicolas Cage) is probably still alive and planned this brilliantly. Jim knew that the safe was being watched over and that they would never leave alive or could flee. David (Elijah Wood) was tricked in to it and his suspicion toward the end was correct.

it's the perfect getaway, the girl can testify that Jim is dead and since no one is watching but going after David he can steal what he wants from the safe.

In the end when he seems to have been shot and lies in the kitchen I was expecting him to get up and scare David just like he did when he used the improvised explosive from the bullets to get to last inches of the safe. This scene was almost mirrored.

There are some hints :
-Jim father probably knew about the safe and told his son.
-Jim is standing in front of the great world largest gift shop when waiting for the gunseller (reference to the safe ?)
-David is checking his pulse with gloves on.
-Jim was wearing body armor
-Jim had enough bags and a cart, it is hinted that he knew exactly where he was going for.

David is a stoner, low life cop who is not to smart, this is obvious throughout the movie :
-stoner
-cleaning cat litter with a shirt
-Couldn't hold a relationship and sleeps with hookers
-JIm getting him to eat a lemon with tabasco
-Jim getting him to do al the surveillance
-Jim testing him with the russian roulettte routine, getting the 10k from the chinese

Jim is shown as an calculating, charismatic guy who knows what he is doing and is inventive and smart.
-the explanation of how to read a crime scene at the beginning
-going "undercover" in the casino
-using the homeless to take the pictures
-Find the german
-putting sun block on
-shooting the gun seller without blinking
-shooting the "guard" at the appartment and leaving the girl as the witness
-ready to kill a police officer who stumbled upon.

[–] valis1949 8 years ago

Why couldn't the film be exactly the way it is written... Both men die in a failed robbery attempt?

At the end of the film the director brings us back to his opening premise- tedious and bored cops scheming and plodding toward retirement. Jim might be clever, but he's no genius. His life proves this. The final scene in the evidence room shows a bunch of drones doing their boring jobs and all of the fascinating evidence is buried (and forgotten) in a nondescript police warehouse. It's as if the film has come full circle.

A 'what if' ending isn't necessary. I think a 'what you see is what you get' ending works just as well.

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[–] Tuyere 8 years ago

Neither Cage or Wood's characters lived.

Everybody says the mob is no longer in Vegas. And perhaps that's true. But nature abhors a vacuum. IN this film the Vegas PD have become the mob. The give away was at the beginning of the film where Cage tells the impound lot mechanic that the cocaine hidden in the engine cylinders should be impounded for evidence. The reaction being 'Oh...Right.' as though the mechanic couldn't believe Cage wasn't in on it. Chances are Cage and wood were never in on it as their fellow officers believe them to be too stupid or straight to be told.

Suplee's character was another give away- it obviously wasn't the first time he'd shaken down someone, and if he knew chances are good whatever vice and crime was running in the city was being monitored and shaken down by the police as well. The occasional bust to keep things looking legitimate but otherwise business as usual. He's an enforcer with a badge which is more or less the perfect cover.

All the money and the gems and other treasure found within the vault are a 'trust' fund hence the name of the film. A trust set aside for corrupt officers. It's the amassed collection of all the little bits of confiscated evidence that have gone 'missing' over years or even decades.

That's why when the van door opens at the ending Wood is hurrying to flash his badge. Not that a bunch of hit men would necessarily stand down for a cop. They wouldn't. What made him try the badge was that he saw someone in the back of the van that he knew from the job.

It wasn't the worst film I've seen. I just wish they hadn't telegraphed it half an hour before the ending -it was obvious whoever ran the operation wouldn't rent out a room to just anyone- not above where they're keeping all that money. What ruined it was that they tried to be so obscure about it afterwards.

[–] Red_Army 8 years ago

Fricken fan theories...Why are you over analyzing this movie?

[–] Harfy 8 years ago

But Cage took Wood's gun, Wood killed him with the weapon he found under the cushion and there is no way Cage couldn't know there was a gun there.

And there is no way he can think that Wood will miss his headshot.

So, I don't believe Cage had planned to double-cross Wood.

My thoughts :
1- Cage is dead (or not) but who can tell ?
2- Wood is truly dead as we saw him got shot in the head.
3- The girl + the phone call + killers at the end = we have no clue to guess who they are.
4- The movie's end is very weird for sure. Maybe the writers ran out of fresh ideas ?

Oh, the old guy shot by Cage in the apartment was a kind of guard for the safe.
And the girl is probably a plan B in case the guy will be killed.
But this stuff is a nonsense : if you don't want witnesses, just kill the guy and the girl as you don't care about her life or children.

All that means something is missing in the movie.