Why does this country like this depressing crap?

Rating: 1/10 (14 June 2003)

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This movie had the potential to be outstanding, fantastic and one of the best movies of the 1990's. Unfortunately, they screwed that all up with one gunshot.
It tells the story of a man who hits a mid-life crisis, quits his job, starts working fast food, smokes weed and gets a new car. Not good by any means, but watchable. This is interrupted by the creepy dude next door who has a jones for that one little girl in Patriot Games.
Anyways, after Kevin Spacy does some soul searching, body building and chases his daughter's best friend for a few hours, he recovers, decides that his life is going pretty well anyways, and becomes happy with the way things are going. Looks like a nice happy ending...
BOOM!
Well, that ruins that. Why turn a perfectly happy ending into that? I just about walked out of the theater right then, but realized that the movie was over, so it would have been moot.