Great Movie!! With unsettling ending

Rating: 9/10 (10 November 2015)

This movie was a great piece. The story was well written and you truly feel sucked in the whole film.
I felt I must post that the ending did in fact throw me off a bit as I knew who would win between the brothers. There are far too many unanswered questions that left me befuddled.

Did the widow receive any of the winnings, from which brother? - Was patty going to be ever to meet his grandchildren? - Did Tommy get brought right to the marines after his brother helped walk there, prison time!?

The better outcome would have been seeing tommy and Brendan battle it out with Tommy coming out on top. One could say well, Brendan was always the underdog, who cares..... Brendan had already beat the unexpected and it was time for him to find his place as the inferior fighter in comparison to younger Tommy. Tommy, the brother that didn't bail on his mother at her worst times and was fighting to help 100% for his dead friends wife. If Tommy would have won, he could have hugged it out in similar fashion as the ending, but rather told Brendan he loved him and given him enough of the earnings to stay afloat plus some. Then Tommy could have given the rest up and walked with his head high into the clunker. I would have much rather preferred this ending.
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