The most stupid ending in the world

Rating: 8/10 (22 March 2005)

I'm not going to tell you much about the whole movie because it's quite wonderful, funny, emotional, colourful, clever, etc., etc. It's just the ending that really annoys me. We all know about the *plot spoiler* ending with Romeo finding Juliet seemingly dead, killing himself before she wakes up and then kills herself, but did Baz Luhrman have to do it in such a silly way? The first example, is the set, which looks very dangerous. In fact it looks stupidly dangerous with all those candles around. No church would have that many candles lit and left unattended. If they had wanted to cremate her, why did they not have it done properly?! Next comes Romeo perched on the side of the bed. It's obvious that she's waking up. Her fingers move on his hand. She opens her eyes and she's grinning at him with a smile that is so white it could blind. Yet he drinks the poison and she tries to suck it off of his lips. She might have well stuck her tongue down his throat for all the good that it did. Then she eventually spots his gun and as calm as anything puts it to her head and fires. They end up just lying there dead together, with just a few splatters of blood. There would have been much more blood (and brain) than that. It just really annoyed me that what could have been a very emotional scene was so long drawn out and done in a way that shows that perhaps the star cross'd lovers only have a brain cells between them. I'm annoyed with that. (And Mercutio dying because he was just lovely).