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The last scene makes no sense.

posted 8 years ago by Demarates
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Yes, I see the irony of his badge and the rest of their tools ending up in the evidence storage they themselves used to fill with evidence from their own cases.

Only that would never have happened. The bad guys would have cleaned up and made all of it disappear along with the bodies of the two cops and their dead accomplice. Buried out in the desert.

Because if their bodies are found and the drill gets found, then the meat locker is discovered and this will lead back to the syndicate. They would never allow that. 

🇧🇪 Now and always Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken.

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[–] Demarates 8 years ago

Actually, they tailed him for quite a while and waited for him to be in an isolated area out in the desert.

The van in front was theirs, the car next to him was theirs also. The only other vehicle was a truck and there was no sign that driver would have seen anything.

Disposing of his body out there in the desert would be easy. Geting the van cleaned and returning it too. That just leaves getting rid of the second body and repairing the damage.

Much better than losing face over two keystone cops discovering their operation and almost stealing all the money they were holding.

🇧🇪 Now and always Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken.

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[–] knoxfan2008 8 years ago

I agree with OP, I think it would have been more fitting if we did see their stuff being put away, but by the unknown bad guys. Like bagged up and placed in one of the safes. That would have been more believable and ironic

[–] raketex 8 years ago

Yeah, your storyline change to end the movie would have been much better, but apparently the scriptwriters were just too full of themselves to have the necessary restraint and discipline to put the "right" natural ending to the story rather the pet one they just wanted to shoehorn force into it and show the audience how "clever" they are.

[–] demianrenada-136-30358 8 years ago

I took the ending as it was the police warehouse running the whole thing. Did you notice in the beginning with the cocaine engine cylinders when Cage said, this has to be submitted as evidence, the guy kind of stalled and looked surprised? Also those guns were stored so nice and police like. The female captive had a nice reaction when she realized Elijah was a cop, kind of a "I can't believe he isn't in on it" look. Their boss in the beginning keeping the John Deer tractor set aside. It all pointed toward corrupt police evidence warehouse to me and they were robbing their own employer haha.

[–] pcventures 8 years ago

I like that interpretation a lot - I only thought of the bagging of the badge and burglary tools as a weird sort of "it comes full circle" and also "the remnants of your life and criminal endeavors are now just routine pieces of evidence."

...and Mrs. Taylor sure seems to use a lotta ice, whenever he's away

[–] demianrenada-136-30358 8 years ago

There were several more ques or hints I can't recall at the moment but it would seem the police were controlling it all, maybe storing the diamonds for some city official/big wig/casino owner who had a hankering for those kind of things, they give him diamonds he lets them keep everything they want