Good movie | Awful ending

Rating: 7/10 (19 May 2010)

In a time where the justice system had forgotten the key role it was set to fulfill - bringing justice, one man betrayed by the system takes it on himself to teach the system a lesson. After years of planning, using only his brain he injects his sense of justice into the corrupt, and sick veins of the system. Everyone that is slightly infested with the disease must be "cured".
Motivated by Hubris like arrogance, the corrupt DA, who's lost his way and who's only interested in case winning percentage and money, fails to overcome his corruption. He holds the antibody to his and and justice system's sickness in his hands, but fails to inject it.
At the end, we still have a corrupt justice system, that not only has forgotten about justice, but has failed to realize its faults through the lesson it's been taught.
I think this is what most people didn't understand when they watched the ending. The point of the ending is to show that one man cannot change the system. The system is so blind and works like a well oiled machine with no purpose of justice or without the purpose of justice as a guiding column of fire. I too were disappointed by the end of the movie, like everyone, but if you think about it, having the DA "winning" farthest from a happy ending. If our hero would have won, that would have been a happy ending. I don't know if this is what the director wanted us to see, but this is what I get.
In conclusion, I would have preferred a happy ending where our hero wins and walks. In my opinion, the DVD should have an alternate ending. I rated this 7. If hero won, it would be an 8 or 9.