Wonderful production with one major problem with the ending.

II have been watching TV series for some months now, and Mr. Sunshine is one of the best. Great acting, cinematography, and a compelling story. I just have one thing about the ending I don't understand.

I admit that I am partial to happy endings, but realize the value of the sad ones. A bit of overkill - practically every major character is killed ( Think Hamlet). Perhaps this was done to emphasize the terrible cost of war. But it does leave some viewers depressed. This, however, is not my complaint.

In the final scene, Eugene forces the Japanese soldiers into the last car of the train along with the hostage he keeps in front of him. Then he steps into to last car, fires his last bullet to unlink the last car from the train, dooming himelf. Why did he not do the same thing by forcing the soldiers and the hostage into the car and then unlink the car while still remaining on the next-to-last car so he could get back inside the train before the soldiers could get around the hostage to shoot him? He has always been so resourceful, and this final act does not ring true.

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