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aslouie -> RE: Movies With Bad Endings (7/12/2008 12:07:32 AM)
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ORIGINAL: Talon3
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ORIGINAL: angie4God
The Mist [8|][:@]
There's this other one that I can never remember the name. One of these spy espionage kind of movies where they go all over the place chasing after this metallic briefcase and....(highlight spoilers below)...
Highlight --->WE NEVER FIND OUT WHAT'S INSIDE !!![:@]
It was a great action packed edge of your seat movie but the ending spoiled it for me.
That would be Ronin with Robert Deniro. You would be right in it being a letdown that we never found out what they were after in that case. If they revealed it, I missed it also.
The only thing that even hints what's inside the briefcase in Ronin is perhaps vital documents or information, made to disrupt the peace agreements between Northern Ireland's long-warring Protestant vs. Catholic factions. Why the Russians will even bothered to obtain the case is still beyond me, but I recalled in the audio commentary of Ronin that John Frankenheimer describes the briefcase as being a Maguffin (sp?), an Alfred Hitchcock concept where the audience is being distracted by a central object or even person, all the while not keeping track of the real story. In Ronin's case, it's DeNiro still active in the intelligence service (in the climatic skating rink part, telling Natasha Mchelhone that he never left his government agent job), doing what appears to be deep cover work to infiltrate Jonathan Pryce's, rogue IRA operative. That's my theory in a nutshell. Besides, I don't think there ever was anything important inside the case: it's just a piece of bait to lure Pryce out of hiding.
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