Great Movie, Until The Last Few Minutes

Rating: 9/10 (5 January 2009)

WARNING SPOILERS. This is a great great movie, until you get to the climax. Instead of doing the expected Taxi Driver thing of shooting up the bad guys, our hero decides to let the villains kill him in order to get them arrested. But one major flaw in that logic: why did they stick around to be arrested? It doesn't take a genius to understand after you fill an old man full of lead in your own front yard that you should get the heck out of there and escape. But none of them do, not a single member of the entire gang. Apparently they just sit there and wait for the police to arrive to be arrested. This is the one and only flaw in the script but it is such a major one involving the resolution of the problem that we just can't get beyond it. This is a wonderfully sentimental, moving film spoiled by a totally implausible ending. Enjoy the first 100 minutes and then say WHAT?????