This article is part of IGN’s Fantastic Fest coverage and contains detailed spoilers for its opening night film, Never Let Go, starring Halle Berry and directed by Alexandre Aja. Are you wondering if Never Let Go has a post-credits scene? We’ll tell you right here: It doesn’t have a mid- or post-credits scene of any kind. Again, spoilers follow from here.
.. A common misconception over ending explained.
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.. — that term was never meant to be pluralized — is that they are definitive when, really, it’s just another critic offering you another opinion in a format that doesn’t happen to be a review.
I say that because many films do not have a clear cut-and-dried ending that means the same thing to everyone who watches it. Alexandre Aja’s latest, Never Let Go, falls so much into that camp that Halle Berry (the film’s star) introduced it at Fantastic Fest with the note “decide what it means for yourself.” And, anecdotally speaking, everyone I spoke to after the screening had a completely different take so far as what the film’s ending actually means.
With that tremendous grain of salt in mind, let’s dig in! A decent hunk of what makes Never Let Go successful is that you believe Mama (Berry) is completely off her rocker right up until you realize she isn’t. Except she is. Or maybe not? Let me explain.
Mama lives alone in a cabin in the middle of nowhere with her two sons Samuel (Anthony B. Jenkins) and Nolan (Percy Daggs IV). The family must stay in their.