I really don't get why this film is so highly rated, it's clever and all and the acting is A+ but the terrible ending ruins it for me.

Rating: 3/10 (18 November 2013)

I remember seeing this film not long after it came out and being very disappointed, It starts off well and builds, the acting is top notch and Pitt/Freeman suit their characters well, it's well directed and appears at first to be well written however despite being great and building building the ending is very very sub par, as I tagged this as a spoiler I can be honest, it's not a happy ending, it's the type of unhappy ending that makes you go away feeling unresolved, incomplete, unfinished, etc. I just ended up feeling I had wasted two hours of my life, maybe I am just a good little Hollywood drone who expects his happy ending, but that's not the case, if the bad guy had been the type you root for I wouldn't have minded or if they hadn't senselessly killed off a character then maybe but the film just doesn't sit right with me, the bad guy gets what he want's, the good guys get their life ruined, it's just a total depressing mess of an ending that makes me want to punch the writer.