Not A Very Happy Ending

Rating: 8/10 (3 January 2006)

I thought that Catherine Zeta-Jones, should have played a more bigger part in the movie. She was not involved in the storyline much. I agree with you people that her character was irrelevant in the movie.
Spielberg should had made the ending more happy. If he did use the cliché, boy gets girl in the end then it would have completed the whole picture. I really wanted to see Viktor win Amelia's heart in the end and he could of. The bit towards the end where Viktor was celebrating the end of the war in country, Amelia came to give him a Visa to go to New York. She said she was going and Viktor did not try to express how he felt about her. Didn't the mural he made from the bathroom toilet mean anything to her? If she knows that he is different from other men, (because he listens) then why doesn't she come back to him, instead she goes back to that guy with the wife. Does she not realise that she is making the stupid mistake that she is trying to avoid the whole movie? If she had no influence on Viktor then why put her in the movie. People even if they know that there is a happy ending will still watch it because its what they want to see.
Now every time I watch the movie, I get really sad towards the end because the do not stay with each other in the end because the build up to their romance was so compelling and with twist ending it really stuffed up the movie for me.
What do you think? P.S (Who was Amelia waiting for 18 years, couldn't quite catch that in the movie.)