This has some good moments, but falls apart badly in the closing third.
The ending sequence is particularly implausible. Firstly his wife seems ready to take him back, despite the way he has treated her. The worst is yet to come however: Vietnamese? gangsters track him down (how?) and shoot him in the street (why would they believe him to be the real Sebastian?). Then incredibly the suitcase he just happens to be carrying at that exact moment falls open on the ground. Yet more incredible is that diamonds tumble out of the suitcase. How did the protagonist miss the apparently unhidden diamonds? Wasn't he searching through the suitcase for clues? Why would Sebastian (when in Hanoi) believe that death was his only option if still had a bunch of diamonds up his sleeve? This is by far the worst chunk of narrative in the film. However I felt that the final third was very weak. There was a lot that could have been explored that was not. Good ideas went to waste. For example - what of the child that was conceived in the hospital? Why did the passion that apparently consumed the protagonist dissipate so suddenly?
The ending sequence is particularly implausible. Firstly his wife seems ready to take him back, despite the way he has treated her. The worst is yet to come however: Vietnamese? gangsters track him down (how?) and shoot him in the street (why would they believe him to be the real Sebastian?). Then incredibly the suitcase he just happens to be carrying at that exact moment falls open on the ground. Yet more incredible is that diamonds tumble out of the suitcase. How did the protagonist miss the apparently unhidden diamonds? Wasn't he searching through the suitcase for clues? Why would Sebastian (when in Hanoi) believe that death was his only option if still had a bunch of diamonds up his sleeve? This is by far the worst chunk of narrative in the film. However I felt that the final third was very weak. There was a lot that could have been explored that was not. Good ideas went to waste. For example - what of the child that was conceived in the hospital? Why did the passion that apparently consumed the protagonist dissipate so suddenly?