I agree and like your ending better.

I thought that the problem was that The Stath's forté is beating the hell out of people, but the 3 "baddies" left weren't worthy opponents, so the mercenary leader had to be introduced as a final boss. After that, it was just mop up and a rather unconvincing jump through the window.

I didn't mind the rest of the end as it left things open to go in different directions. If it had flopped, Clay could have died or gone on to something like you suggest, or the Prez/Westwyld could be determined to hunt him down... or maybe (with Agent Parker?) help him "tend to the hive".

@Strawberry Shortcake said:

I was disappointed. I thought there would be a short epilogue, a couple of minutes to tie the loose ends. Something like: the president reveals the scheme in public, promises that the culprits will receive heavy punishments and their victims will be fully compensated, and finally states her resignation on the ground that she was elected at the expense of innocent people and that she feels responsible, even though she was unaware. And, for good measure, Adam would be seen tending to bees in some small village with nice neighbors. How about that?

That would have been nice.

I really hated the daughter FBI agent. This guy who isn't even related to her mother does more to bring down the people that made her kill herself than her own daughter, who was an FBI agent. She was kind of an asshole throughout the movie. No wonder she didn't have a husband.

@cswood said:

@Strawberry Shortcake said:

I was disappointed. I thought there would be a short epilogue, a couple of minutes to tie the loose ends. Something like: the president reveals the scheme in public, promises that the culprits will receive heavy punishments and their victims will be fully compensated, and finally states her resignation on the ground that she was elected at the expense of innocent people and that she feels responsible, even though she was unaware. And, for good measure, Adam would be seen tending to bees in some small village with nice neighbors. How about that?

That would have been nice.

I really hated the daughter FBI agent. This guy who isn't even related to her mother does more to bring down the people that made her kill herself than her own daughter, who was an FBI agent. She was kind of an asshole throughout the movie. No wonder she didn't have a husband.

She was a pointless character that seemed to be there just to fill certain "obligations" in movies these days. Not exactly a credible portrayal of an FBI agent and I believe FBI agents actually have fitness tests they have to pass and let's just say that she isn't passing any of them unless they have a new plus size women's category.

The movie itself is a decent enough "Statham movie", which basically means he walks around looking grumpy and punching people in the face for about 90 minutes or so. Thing is he already has several movies where he pretty much plays the same character like "the mechanic" or "Transporter" and why not just make a sequel to them? Or maybe it is financially more lucrative for a film studio to bet on a new IP and hope for a jackpot. Anyways the movie often seems like a comedy what with the constant talk about bees and bee trivia and the occasional bee puns, but it's all delivered in such a serious dead pan manner with plenty of gratuitous violence. To be honest maybe it was even slightly worse than his usual movies because watching Statham walk around punching people in the face for 90 minutes with no real resistance or opposition starts to look bland sooner or later and you kind of just want the movie to end after the first 60 minutes because you've basically already seen everything.

@aholejones said:

She was a pointless character that seemed to be there just to fill certain "obligations" in movies these days. Not exactly a credible portrayal of an FBI agent and I believe FBI agents actually have fitness tests they have to pass and let's just say that she isn't passing any of them unless they have a new plus size women's category.

I didn't realize it, but I've actually seen her play almost the exact same character in a Liam Neeson movie called Blacklight. She just plays "sassy black woman" stereotype. I'm black and I despise those roles.

@aholejones said:

The movie itself is a decent enough "Statham movie", which basically means he walks around looking grumpy and punching people in the face for about 90 minutes or so.

But at least that part of the movie I enjoyed. I don't watch Statham movies for the acting or plot, I watch them to see him kick ass, and at least his fight scenes were pretty entertaining. But my god, the awful FBI daughter and the weak beta "dude bro" bad guys who are clearly Wolf of Wall Street knockoffs were pretty annoying. Josh Hutcherson plays one of the most annoying villains I've seen in a movie, and Statham doesn't get to beat the shit out of him.