1/27/2024 0 Comments Beholder 2 best endingThen again, no one should have to work that hard at watching a movie. Like I said, watch closely and you may get something out of it. Some parts of it are just plain bad (like every one of k.d. It also seems self-important-as if they don't want the audience to understand. Too often, though, it seems like it's trying too hard to be interesting, doing so at the expense of storytelling. But will he finally do his job and turn her in or will he become her next victim? Before I start sounding too much like the back of a video box, let me just say that there is a lot here for those willing to pay close attention to it. This time he has the nerve to actually talk to her. He saves her, only to lose her, then finds her again. Eye also tries to protect her victims from her, but usually fails-until she becomes a victim herself at the hands of the scary, creepy Jason Priestley (yes, THAT Jason Priestley). She targets well-to-do men, feeds off of them for a while, then kills them. He's supposed to be getting her arrested but, as he keeps following her, becoming more and more obsessed, he starts protecting her. Having paid close attention to the film (the interesting direction and photography held my attention), however, I have been able to surmise the following: a spy code-named ∞ye,' (the miscast Ewan MacGregor) who's afraid of his own shadow, not to mention losing his mind since his wife left him (this same subject was covered in the far superior Zero Effect), falls in love with a beautiful killer (Ashley Judd). "But we have to put SOMETHING out there for god's sake! It's got two big stars in it!" My question is, did their tinkering make the film more or less confusing? We may never know. I mean, was it good at some point until some outside force-a producer or a test audience, for instance-started messing with it? The plot is incomprehensible, something producers in screening rooms tend to not like. Funny thing is, I think there might be a good movie in here somewhere. This thing must have looked good on paper-the only reason I can think of that Ewan MacGregor and Ashley Judd would associate themselves with it. It is worth your time to rent the DVD and see this alternate ending. I can not imagine why they left out this long segment that does not so much result in an alternate ending per se, but rather fills in a lot of the holes that I had in my head. It wrapped up everything for me and made the whole thing crystal clear and satisfying. Sometimes alternate endings do not really change much but this was the most dramatically different alternate ending I have ever seen. I then watched the one deleted scene and the alternate ending and it changed my whole perspective. They did do their usual fine job of acting but I must admit that the plot was convoluted and illogical and the first time through watching it normally, I was disappointed in the lingering confusion. I did however recently pick up the DVD in the $5.99 rack at Target mainly because I really like Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd. I had not seen this movie when originally released because of bad reviews.
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