Hours later, Victor dies in his sleep; his spirit asks Charlie to deliver a gift and final message to his daughter, Gabi.

He consoles her before they part ways, only to cross paths again in the city when Charlie is traveling by taxi and sees her in her parked car, distressed.

Gabi then accompanies her father's corpse in a different ambulance, leaving her car with Charlie, who finds a revolver in her purse with an inscription from "Nigel".

He drives to the Romanian Athenaeum where Gabi performs as a cellist, and she calls him with instructions to deliver her instrument to the conductor, Bela.

After arriving at a hostel, Charlie parties with his British roommates Karl and Luc at night after they dose him with ecstasy, and is unexpectedly menaced by Nigel in the bathroom.

They receive a bill for 9,900 Romanian leu ($2379.81) and are threatened by the manager, Darko, who catches Charlie eyeing photos of Gabi and Nigel on his wall.

Waking up alone, Charlie finds a tape in Victor's VHS collection labeled "Cubs Win World Series - 1995”, revealed to be security footage of Nigel and Darko murdering a group of people.

Review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reports a 27% approval rating, based on 66 reviews with an average rating of 3.93/10; the site's consensus reads: "Shia LaBeouf clearly relishes his role in Charlie Countryman, but his efforts can't salvage the movie's shallow script and overstuffed direction.

[18] Justin Lowe of The Hollywood Reporter describe it as "an atmospheric feature that sets out to tackle big questions of love and destiny.

"[19] Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote, "this catastrophe of a movie zigzags drunkenly between action-adventure and surreal comedy with some magical realism slopped over it like ketchup.

"[20] Robert Abele of the Los Angeles Times wrote, "Pulpy dross of surpassing dumbness, Charlie Countryman takes the blender approach to mixing dark adventure, doofus comedy and pie-eyed romance, but forgets to put the lid on when pulsed.

"[21] Damon Wise of Empire gave a positive review, stating "Bond's use of music is excellent and his vision of eastern Europe both hellish and magical.