**** SPOILERS ****
- throw it all away in the last five minutes for the sake of a cheap fling at fashionable cynicism.
In a nutshell: the bad guy gets away with it. And we never find out what happened to Amy, who started the whole thing rolling. (Did I miss that somewhere along the way? I assume she's dead, but she gets lost in the shuffle.) I loved seeing all the scenes in and around Dublin, and I felt like things were drawing toward a satisfying conclusion; and then, once again, literally in the last five minutes, the rug was yanked out from under me, because God knows we can't have an ending where the people involved pay a terrible price, but some measure of justice, you know, manages to win in the end. Cheap shoddy conclusion that throws everything that came before it in the trash: deus ex machina in reverse.