What’s Aged the Worst?
The ending
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- The alien plot (what the Omega wants, how alien blood works) doesn't matter; the romantic subplot and the unoriginal mimics are also listed, and the score is called blah.
- Liman loves techno, as in Go and the song that drops at the end of Bourne, a remnant of rising in the late '90s.
- The Louvre section doesn't work because it is dark and confusing, unlike the daylight trailer-park car-stealing scene, a favorite, where you see the whole chessboard.
- At the Louvre the internal logic unravels: characters fall 50 feet onto a car and keep running, while earlier a car hit would kill Cage.
- Going into a huge action movie without the final 30 pages makes the ending feel like a different movie; it was probably shot at night because night CGI is cheaper.
- The ending in general is named what has aged worst and the movie's key flaw.