The ending blows it...

Rating: Null/10 (8 January 2001)

I must say that, contrary to reviews I've heard and my own expectations, I was actually enjoying this movie. I always enjoy films with flawed heroes, and I liked how Willis' Everyman, stuck in a dead-end job, in the last moments of a failed marriage, with a cloying irritating kid, kind of aimlessly wandered through the movie, unable to come to terms with reality. His rise to realisation and status of superhero, avoiding the usual comicbook nonsense, was fine. But the ending just blew it. For a film so slow, subtle and open-ended, the ending was way too sudden, glib and final. I'd prefer ending it with the close shot of Jackson and Willis shaking hands, something ambiguous and open-ended. A major error of judgement. Note to the writer/director : not every film has to end with a shock twist.