There were moments of such astonishing STUPIDITY that I kept wondering whether anyone involved in making this thing had any brains at all. Were they just not paying attention? For example, didn't anyone, at any point, say, "Hey! Why do we have sounds of roaring, crashing ocean surf while we're showing these little waves lapping at the shore?" HOW COULD ANYONE FAIL TO NOTICE THAT?
And what kind of a gun is this professional hitman using that, when he shoots a guy in the face at close range, leaves said guy with a smattering of scratches?
Those are just two of many painfully glaring errors that I noticed when I saw this movie. There were many more, but I don't remember them all. It's been years, and believe me, I have not and will not EVER waste any of my precious time watching this garbage again.
But I do remember the very worst: First, I'll give them credit for portraying, accurately, that nearly all cars at that time were black. (Remember that Ford reportedly said, "They can get whatever color they want as long as it's black"?) So what do these bank robbers, who have law enforcement wanting to arrest them and the mob wanting to kill them, do? They . . . PAINT. THEIR. CAR. BROWN. Brilliant! BRILLIANT! Too bad they couldn't get some neon signs, maybe a loud speaker to announce themselves, a marching band to lead them into town--I mean, why not? They've already made it so that anyone, seeing their car anywhere, will see them coming and immediately know who they are.
Again: How can it be that no one (Producer? Director? Actor? Lackey who brought them coffee?), at any point, said, "Waaaaaiiit a minute here . . . This doesn't make sense"? Sheer stupidity? Stars/bigwigs who were too arrogant to listen? I don't know--but I do know this movie was full of crap like that, and it made it impossible for me to stay "in" the movie while watching it. I don't care how nice it looked, blah blah blah--to me, a great movie is one that keeps me so engrossed that I forget where I am. And this movie was the absolute opposite of that because I was constantly being distracted by such sloppy and--if I haven't already worn this word out--STUPID errors.
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Silver_Toxin
18 years ago
["And what kind of a gun is this professional hitman using that, when he shoots a guy in the face at close range, leaves said guy with a smattering of scratches?"]
You half-wit. He shot the vase in front of Law.
The only "errors" seem to be your glaring inability to understand what the rest of us easily understood.
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Andrew-1592
15 years ago
Was it not a lamp? either way the injuries were caused by the glass, not the bullet. The guy must have been paying too much attention to looking for holes in the plot/production to actually watch the movie, follow the story or appreciate any of the excellent qualities; the acting of the Newman, Hanks, Law and even Craig, the direction, the music and mainly the cinematography.
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