Great Story, Great Concept, Unethical Ending

Rating: 6/10 (3 May 2006)

A good movie needs a good premise and a good ending, usually an ethical one at that, such as Casablanca. Apparently these movie director haven't watched Casablanca. All Emmerich's movies have great concepts, wonderful technical excellences, but usually falls apart on the second half of the movie, such as the ending.
Anyway this is a movie I am meaning to review desperately and for a long time due to a heated debate with fellow watchers which resulted in me being badly injured from a heated fight as a result of a bad ending! I guess this is where movie review critics comes in to solve problems???**spoilers ahead**
Much of the controversy lies in the issue of the ending. Either the theatrical version or the director's cut. The theatrical version had a good ending, albeit an unethical one. The idea can be summed as "I don't know you, you don't know me so there is no problem." In other words, "see no evil and no evil will exist". The director's cut ends with the leading actor dying in the mother's stomach, so technically he was never born, which is also unethical, because it begs the question that human problems (the Millers) will still continue with him or without him. In other words, the father who made the kiddie porn movie will continue to make it with him or without him.
The preferred ending should have been that he goes back to that house, make demands to the father who make the kiddie porn and make a threat not to do it or else he will report to authorities or at least destroy the camera projector anyway. Much of the conflict between Tommy and Evan arises from the fact that Evan had sex during with his sister while his Tommy father filmed the whole thing. Initially he was going to film his own son having sex with his daughter, but since Evan Trebor came, he decided to replace Tommy for Evan. So whichever the outcome, if Evan never knew the Miller family, the Miller's family life would not have gotten for the better since his father would continue making the kiddie porn anyway. Yes the father did mentioned that Tommy was supposed to lead but Evan was replaced the last minute. So the theatrical ending the fact that Kayleigh Miller had a better life and walked passed by each other in New York City was entirely unrealistic. Her life should have been a whore and so is her brother, to that tune anyway. So there you have it, two endings and both endings were unethical since the cause was not eliminated. Just remember that the theatrical ending we see the What you don't know can hurt you, what you do know can hurt you too, but what you can do to stop it at the source of the problem is what makes the difference. The entire problem of this movie actually revolved around a deranged pedophile father, which the movie totally lost focus of, but that is the real source of the problem of Tommy's unusual behavior and which bought about a chain reaction for Lenny murderous ways and his own personal problems. This problem can be resolved if he made some mention near the end of the movie to the effect, "Yeah, come to think of it all these problems I am having with Tommy and Lenny all came from this crazy Pedophile Father, no matter what I do! Yeah, I better go back and resolved this in a more direct way, but without the dynamite or punish Tommy! How stupid of me!" Perhaps, I should tell the producers, the Emmerich, but then they won't care anyway, but it would be nice to add this addition to the DVD version on the alternate third ending, at least in a storyboard form anyway.