32. "I think that review gives this way too much credit:" In response to In response to 31
"These two (Pitt & Jenkins) share the film's incredible Coen Bros.- esque closing scene, which either brings the whole film together or takes it one step too far into preachy territory depending on whether you think it's okay to build an entire feature around a point Brad Pitt's character can sum up in one sentence..."
Incredible closing scene?? Coen Brothers-esque??!? The fuck is this dude smoking? It was one of the worst endings I've seen in a so-called serious film in a long while.
He says the movie has to try to aspire to be about something greater than it's face-value mob story, because...why? Ain't nothing wrong with doing a genre movie and doing it well, and sprinkling in some subtext along the way. Instead, this fucking thing was like being bludgeoned over the head with a cast-iron frying pan, and it totally wrecked the movie. And the "message" wasn't even anything remotely original or insightful or edgy.
On top of that, I just felt there was air of general incompetence that I had a hard time ignoring.
As for that review, in that passage I quoted above, the reviewer can't decide if the closing sequence brings the movie together or undermines it. The whole review is like that - he doesn't seem to want to take a firm position on anything, almost like he's not sure what to thing, so he's taking every position to cover his bases.
One way or the other, this thing was a huge disappointment and a waste of talent.