Overrated, silly ending

Rating: 4/10 (26 February 2007)

I've seen a lot of overrated movies in my life (can anyone say The Crying Game? Gladiator? Million Dollar Baby?) but never has an entire audience been so completely lost by the Director of an eventual Best Picture Winner. In my screening in Gainesville, Florida, the last forty minutes of the film -- you remember, the forty minutes in which nine of the eleven main characters get skull-shot by someone else? -- the audience was so pulled out of the thing that people were actually LAUGHING AT THE SCREEN. This is a truly mediocre movie. It's dreary, it's ham-acted, the dialogue is forced, it's half an hour too long, and its ending is one of the silliest I've ever seen in a film that expects itself to be taken seriously.