The Ending (spoilers)
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bodegg — 18 years ago(June 07, 2007 01:04 PM)
Wasn't really that difficult though was it? He could have mirrored Carter's walk along the beach as he was on the clifftop. Carter had no reason to believe he was going to be topped there and then, although he would have realised he would be next. The assassin is a professional. He stalks his prey (train carriage at the start?)and travels light. As Carter had done a lot of physical exertion he would be slower than the killer making it easier to set up a shot. Carter was strolling along, laughing, totally distracted and then stood still while he thought about throwing the gun ito the sea. Bags of time. Don't forget the whole assassination thing was devised for the film, it's not in the book!
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adam-thirnis — 18 years ago(July 21, 2007 07:20 AM)
The assassin being in the train at the start was just a case of using the same actor IMO. Hodges says in the commentary that the assassin was already following him but I think he's being disingenuous if he's claiming this was intentional. There is nothing in the film to suggest he was following Carter - he was just background. The film is low budget and they were just saving money by making use of the same actor - they also used the same land rover for the police at the end that the villains were driving earlier in the film.
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enochsneed — 17 years ago(August 25, 2008 01:11 AM)
This makes sense. It's Kinnear who calls 'J' after setting up Carter's meeting with Eric Paice. I've always assumed 'J' was a local (i.e. North-East) hitman. However, he does say he already knows Carter by sight, and we don't know where he lives. We will just have to accept he is hired to kill Carter and succeeds very efficiently.
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MaximusXXX — 19 years ago(December 22, 2006 10:12 AM)
I was very happy, I love films that end with the main characters death, murder, suicide, natural death etc. I loved it, I didn't expect it to happen since most films are predictable in the way they end, but this was special.
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phyrkrakr — 18 years ago(February 17, 2008 09:02 PM)
The director, in the commentary, says that the very first shot of the movie is foreshadowing Carter's death. "He's up in the window, like he's already in heaven, and then we see the curtains draw across Carter." I'm paraphrasing, but that's the gist of it.
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g-of-warks2-1 — 14 years ago(November 25, 2011 09:04 AM)
A violent, nasty end for a violent nasty man. Entirely appropriate. Okay he was right to knock off Eric (he had murdered his brother) and Peter the Dutchman (self defence). I thought that he was out of order for murdering Albert and Mararet though. They had been forced into becoming unwilling accomplices by people just as bad as him. As for him getting all upset about Dorothy appearing in that porn film (which was bad, seeing as she was probably underage) I think that smacks of hypocrisy. The organization that he worked for was obviously involved in vice and he did not seem to object to that film when he first put it on. It was only when he realized that Dorothy appeared in it. Presumeably it is okay in his book for other peoples' daughters and nieces to appear in illegal porn films, but not his own.
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Coldheart2236 — 14 years ago(January 21, 2012 06:16 PM)
When I
first
saw the movie, I was quite young (I would say 8 or 9), and I did not expect the ending. This was due in no small part to the fact that I was simply young and did not understand the plot's nuances as I do now. However, watching it years later - with hindsight as well as maturity - I would say that Carter's death is inevitable. Then again, hindsight is 20/20, as they say.
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Woodyanders — 3 years ago(March 07, 2023 01:16 AM)
Loved the uncompromisingly downbeat bummer ending. Carter gets his revenge only for it to cost him his life. What goes around comes around.
You've seen Guy Standeven in something because the man was in everything.