For 3/4ths of the movie a Good Film, and then, the ending!?

Rating: 7/10 (24 February 2007)

Several friends and I have been discussing the cheesy ending of this film and it's not just the elevator shoot 'em up. About that silly rat on the balcony railing! Hello?????? Does NO ONE feel that is the most over-the-top moment in a film? Was this in the Hong Kong version everyone's talking about? I can't believe no one close to Martin Scorsese didn't point out to him that terrible visual. Okay! OKAY, we got it, he was a rat! We got it! What, you needed to make us laugh at the end on top of the sloppy ending?? Totally silly, cheesy moment on film. A luxury apartment in a high rise, obviously high up and suddenly there, on the balcony railing, a lone rat balancing precariously on the railing with the capitol dome in the background. The only thing that could have been more ridiculous is if they'd had the rat take a swan dive off the balcony! This movie was so good, so compelling up until the last 4th of the film. Even if it was a remake, considering the director could have remade the film in his own vision, why didn't he improve on that ending? Martin, what happened!!??? Definitely not his best film.