The Firm book vs the movie, especially the end...

*SPOILERS BELOW*



And no, this isn't just a douchey "hey look at me I read a book and it's better than the movie etc" thread.

Ok, so I just finished reading the Firm for the first time about a week ago and thought it was fantastic. I don't read very much, but I'd say it's one of the top 2 books I've ever read. So I figured the next logical step was to watch the movie. It was pretty good, but the end is COMPLETELY different than the book.

*Spoilers*...for those that need a refresher, in the book after Mitch is wise to everything, he hits the road. He gets the FBI to bust his brother out of jail over a prison wall, and he eventually meets up with him and Tammy in Panama City. They elude police throughout the south (while both the FBI and the mafia are hot on his trail at the same time) and eventually escape when Abanks comes by boat and takes them from a pier out of country. Mitch, Abby, and Ray end up living their life in obscurity on the islands.

In the movie, however, it's not nearly as intense. For starters, Ray doesn't go out over the prison wall..some papers are signed and he just walks out the front door. As for the climax, there is no massive manhunt. Instead, he sees that the firm is overbilling clients. So he has the fricking balls to confront the Moroltos and tell them that that's the big secret he knows. So the mob is just like "oh ok, whatevs". So he now is off the hook from the mob, the FBI has paid him almost a million bucks, and he quits the firm and goes back north. In the book it would be UNHEARD of to quit knowing what he knew. In the end, they just leave Memphis and go home.

What are yalls thoughts?