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The crane scene made no sense.

posted 5 years ago by [deleted]
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I used to think this was somehow badass when I was a kid, but upon re-watching it, I see how dumb it is.

E. Johnson allows the crane to pick up her car, they get lifted in the air where a dozen men are shooting rockets at them, they all miss. Our 2 protagonists emerge from the car with their own rocket launcher and a single sub-machine gun and manage to kill nearly all the bad guys and the crane operator who dies lowering them exactly where E. Johnson wanted: A big pipe filled with water. Then they abandon the precious car which is still attached to the crane.

And this was supposed to be her plan.

[–] Rascar-Capac (45) 4 years ago

Absolutely nonensical. And it gets even more insane, when you watch it repeatedly and think about it. The "plan" not only required to kill the crane operator in betweeen, while they were hanging at the crane and at the same time being attacked by forces from below. They even managed to not kill the man immediately, but to wound him somehow, in a way that in the exact right moments he would perform two more commands in his driver’s cabin before dying and thus allow them to reach their destination.
In Germany the film was shown in the notorious TV show "SchleFaZ" (Abbreviation for "The worst Movies of all Time") and the hosts commented with pleasure how nonsensical the whole scene was.