Disappointing ending ruins a good movie

Rating: 2/10 (19 March 2007)

It is sad, so sad, to see that a great director like Scorsese cannot wrap up a good movie and end it with some brain, and I don't mean brains on the wall, which the film must reach the top ten of most-brain-splatter-on-the-wall-in-one-movie, but instead a closure with some dignity. For people in the US, maybe the ending is the ultimate, or even the ending is mob-like. But that doesn't take away the fact that another bullet in another head simply is an easy ending. No matter if it was unexpected, it is too simple, too lame, too much America for the world. No matter the actual role of guns and violence in mafia and society as a whole, the ending had a twist already and didn't need another. Death is no true punishment, but for most criminals an escape from trial and conviction.
Why build up the safety letter if something happened if it still was never used? Or was the information passed on?
The acting is great though, and it's only the ending that really ruins the whole thing. It's disappointing to spend more than 2.5 hours on a good film when it ends like that.