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Why didn't Alonzo protect himself better?


He knew the Russians had a hit squad out to get him, yet after Jake took his money, he just drove to the airport unaccompanied. Why didn't he call up Paul and the gang or some of his other corrupt friends to come pick him up from the hood and escort him to LAX or wherever.

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Always wondered why too, probably because of his EGO

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Yup they could have sabed him. Also he should have gone back in his apartment and gotten his pillowcase till of guns

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The men that worked under him were not his friends, and the pillowcase of guns were not going to help him either.
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Besides, a guy who has a freaking shotgun hanging off the bottom of his girlfriend's bed is certainly going to have a trunk and car full of guns.

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No one was going to help him. He was a marked man and on his own.
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Yea i dont think Dr Dre and them boys wanted that problem of having Russians after them, plus just my own observation but i dont think they were that close to Alonzo anyway to risk almost certain death to help him

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I was surprised that Alonzo didn't have anyone with him after he left that neighborhood. Who knows, who probably would've survived had he had Dre & his crew with him.

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I know. If he wanted to get to the airport to escape, you would think he could have gotten someone to drive him there while he hid in the trunk.


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Because he simply couldn't protect himself better, no matter what. I mean c'mon, he was essentially alone, abandoned by all, againts russian mobsters armed with machine guns. He didn't stand a chance. It was money or escape. Nothing else.

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Still, he could have at least taken the freeway to LAX rather than drive on some empty street at night. At least all the roads leading up to the airport are busy regardless of the time of day and so a little bit safer.

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The russians were most certainly always watching him, at least since the showdown between him and Hoyt. You cannot escape a well organized organization like the russian mob. It's virtually impossible.

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They weren't really his friends or his goon squad. They had an understanding but probably not enough loyalty to get themselves into trouble with the Russians.

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I honestly don't believe it mattered. The Russians probably had someone watching Alonzo and his house. They probably knew is every move in case he would flee.

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The movie portrayed the Russians as this really bad-azz group that could dismantle anyone. So it’s implied that nobody was going to save Alonzo, and nobody could. The Russians would’ve wasted his boys if Alonzo had went to them

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