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MrBLAQK

CONTAINS SPOILERS5/10 3 years ago

The first 90 minutes of this movie are absolutely fantastic. They build up Marla as such a despicable, horrid creature that I was actively begging for the Mafia to get sick revenge on her.

The last 30 minutes are Season 8 Game of Thrones level of terrible and ruin what was about to be one of my favorite movies this year. The steps they want to strain credibility were insane. Firstly her surviving after being drugged and put in the water were questionable. The mafia failing to kill her girlfriend was just...how in the world did they fail killing that girl?

Marla just fell in the water (and I'm not going into the 3 minutes she was able to kick in a glass front window underwater and maintain holding her breath), but she still has her wallet to buy things at the convenience store. She gets to her girlfriend literally just before the place blows up, which she had no control over because she literally waited for a taxi.

They complain that they have nothing left but the diamonds, and but they also apparently have a handy wig, a taser, some morphine knockout drugs to pull off some James Bond type of killing of Peter Dinklage. And then when Dinklage survives, he agrees to be her partner. Look, I get she's smart and was gonna kill it with the mafia. But the shit she did was unforgivable, and it strains my belief that Dinklage wouldn't just go out and torture her the first chance he gets. They did not present him as being a "money first" guy, so him overlooking the mother being thrown IN A PSYCHIATRIC WARD is nuts.

Look, I enjoyed 70% of this movie. It was an excellent horror thriller to that point. I would've loved if this movie went the route of Dinklage and the mob being mostly outsmarted by the crazy, maniacally, absolutely dastardly woman. But that movie NEEDED to end with Dinklage personally killing Marla. No if, ands or buts, anything but that ending ruins the point they spent the rest of the movie going for.

It really hurts me to trash this movie, because Pike was fantastic again in her role as a villain and Dinklage really made me want his character to succeed. But that ending was the worst type of cop out possible.

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Reply to MrBLAQK

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Reply by ZombZ

3 years ago

@mrblaqk most of your criticism is fair[spoiler], but I wanna point out that if you wanna make someone’s death seem like an accident, it’s a good idea to leave them with their wallet. Not observing their death is a bad idea tho. The house was not about to explode. The gas was just meant to poison her, which is completely insane after they’ve already beaten her to a pulp and trashed the house. These people were terrible murderers. [/spoiler]

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Reply by joshvaughn777

3 years ago

@mrblaqk exactly! I couldn’t have said it better myself.

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Reply by Mrs Megumi

3 years ago

@mrblaqk well put, my thoughts exactly! still enjoyed it tho!

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Reply by misnomer

3 years ago

@mrblaqk kudos! This was one of the most fair and relatable reviews I've read in a long time. You've made some excellent points (most of which I am still thinking about as I'm still watching the movie as I write this), I definitely understand your frustration. What sort of "professional killer" doesn't stick around to confirm its victim's death? So much potential thrown down the drain by a very, very anti-climatic and ludicrous final third of the movie. Maybe they'll remake this one in a few years and give it the ending it deserves.

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Reply by swanqueenz

3 years ago

@mrblaqk Completely agree with everything you said!

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Reply by polo247

3 years ago

after she didn't die in the car I stopped it because for me she did die in the car. end of film .

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Reply by Katurian

4 months ago

I liked a lot of this movie but also felt a number of big choices let it down. I didn’t really care so much about her kicking out the windscreen because they were trying to build her up as unusually driven, calm and competent. You could probably complain about many aspects of the car going in the water and although there were more believable and intelligent ways for her to escape, it was simple fact that her killers chose such a risky way (in that it might not work) to kill her and didn’t follow up to make sure she was dead. The ending was very unsatisfying and felt rushed but it made sense that her bad deeds caught up with her. Dinklage killing her would have needed a lot of rewrites to work. Like he said, they both won and becoming rich would have made them trust each other. Her death was bad for him. If anything her death should have somehow exposed Peter and had him sent to prison as well. The mother of the guy who shoots Marla should have been mentioned more. They should have identified a specific tactic that Marla used on her out of spite for her son spitting on her. Then when Marla becomes mega rich she makes that tactic an unofficial company policy, it would have then made more sense and been more satisfying when he killed her.

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