Play Dirty Has A Much, Much Darker Ending Than Most Shane Black Movies, And The Director Explains Why It Was Totally Necessary

SPOILER WARNING: The following article contains spoilers for Play Dirty . If you have not yet seen the film, proceed at your own risk!

If you’re a Shane Black fan, you know that the guy really loves his characters and, by extension, doesn’t like killing them off. From Samuel L. Jackson ’s Mitch Henessey in the eternally underrated The Long Kiss Goodnight to Val Kilmer’s Gay Perry in the exceptional Kiss Kiss Bang Bang , he has an established history of saving his heroes at the last minute from what seems like certain death. That being said, it’s because of that history that the dark twist at the end of his new movie Play Dirty hits especially hard.

In the third act of the crime film (now available to all with an Amazon Prime subscription ), our protagonists, led by M