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Possably the silliest and worst written film of recent times ...

posted 10 years ago by rjfme-604-482794
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Generally speaking even very poor plot lines don't bang you on the side of the head with stupid, within the 1st 10 minutes of the film. This one didn't let up with it's absurdities from the first few minutes in until the last dying gasp.

The pointless argument at dinner (establishing motive? who knows?).

A police raid that could never have happened.

Some weird recipe of idiotic police work getting the wife framed.

The autistic child was a nice touch, though.

The same police who managed to botch the wife's conviction managed to solve complex detection problems in mere minutes, tied two completely unrelated crimes together in seconds, solved problems in minutes that would have taken weeks or even months, found people with no connection to either crime ... and generally did a year's or more police work in a day.

I don't remember one scene in the entire film that was believable or even remotely credible or based on real observations of people, police work or criminal behavior ... absolutely nothing. There was so much suspension of disbelief employed I was beginning to think the film was a parody of bad film student work.

It's like the writer and director started the project by asking: "How can we make a movie by pulling absolutely every detail out of our asses?"

I just wonder how a top actor like Russel Crow would get involved in such a ludicrous project. Surely he read the script before he signed on, one would think.

How do you like eating crow, Warmists?

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[–] Junkinmytrunk 9 years ago

My wife and I were just watching this.. and the scene where he is following the ambulance when they transport her back to the hospital.
Russell Crowe passes a police escorted ambulance on a double yellow and is looking at them as he's passing. Now I had to REALLY suspend belief, that these cops just didn't care that this was happening in front of them.

I don't know, this made me more angry than any other poor police work or inaccuracies in the film..

[–] pikalive 9 years ago

Russell Crowe passes a police escorted ambulance on a double yellow and is looking at them as he's passing. Now I had to REALLY suspend belief, that these cops just didn't care that this was happening in front of them.

the police couldn't have done anything about it; they were escorting an ambulance with a prisoner in it. Did you expect them to leave the ambulance and pull him over for a traffic violation?

[–] cineastral 9 years ago

Paul Haggis won Academy Awards and wrote scripts for movies such as Million Dollar Baby, Casino Royale, Flags of Our Fathers. I imagine a lot of actors want to work with him.

[–] CromeRose 8 years ago

I suppose there would be some thread that the cops would pick up on due to the fact that the owner of the car was a convicted murderer doing life. However, yes, I agree that finding part of a busted tail-light lens in that area, picking it up and making some connection is too far fetched to believe. In reality, the cop would just kick it aside and move on. But the biggest stretch for me was when they walk into the house and find the remnants of Brennan's plans stuck on the wall. No one, not even a super-cop like Jackie Chan, would make anything more of that than someone had some posters on the wall or something. People have stuff on the walls of their houses all the time. Oscar-winning writer or not, this was an example of the writer ignoring the story rule that even though we, the audience, know that Brennan had his escape plans all over the wall, the cop characters did not and would never make the connection so fast, if at all. It was writer convenience to progress the story the way Haggis wanted it to go. Having said that, I still suspended my disbelief and thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

[–] matthall619 8 years ago

Yeah I just don't get people like the OP who feel the need to nitpick every little detail to death then trash the film because they found some incosistencies. Its so counter-intuitive to actually enjoying a piece of entertainment.

[–] Underdog_73 (770) 7 years ago

Some inconsistencies? Some inconsistencies are fine. Hell, most people have learned to live with many inconsistencies in movies. But what the OP said was the entire movie was crap, from the first second, to the last. And the OP was completely right. This movie never let up with the idiocy and overly far fetched garbage

There's more to complain about here, than enjoy. If you feel differently, then you're lucky you don't feel as if your time and money were wasted. But your argument can be ineffectively replied to any opinion and serves no purpose.

The oddest thing to me is what stands out most in my memory. With all the cringey junk in the movie, I just keep thinking about the insignificant line he said to gun store guy. "Show me where the bullets go". Seriously??? Has a dumber line ever been written? There's not a human alive, with a brain, from the age of 4 and up, who doesn't know how to load a hand gun, whether it be a semi automatic or a revolver. That was a failed and cheap way to try and show he wasn't prone to violence. It failed, and was just one of many straws that flattened the camel. If they wanted to show he wasn't familiar with guns, they could have had him ask how it works once it's loaded. Even that's a stretch, but I can accept some people don't know how to pull a slide back or turn off a safety.

See, I've even given evidence to prove my first point, of being open to accepting inconsistencies, nonsense, etc, in a movie. Just not the entire movie. Maybe the original French version was better. I'll have to watch it someday.

And don't even get me started on the ridiculous premise that a city would be shut down due to a prisoner escape. That's a level of ridiculous I didn't know existed. Oh, and the idiotic scene with the woman trying to keep from a moving car because she may have to wait a little longer to see the kid she hasn't seen in 3 years. . There's just too much to cover. Especially the way the cops caught wind of everything and pieced it together in seconds.....just utter drivel.

[–] nicomeertens 8 years ago

You probably don't watch a lot of movies.

[–] Underdog_73 (770) 7 years ago

I probably watch more movies than most, and the OP hit the nail on the head. This one was too ridiculous. And I watch and enjoy, all the old cliffhanger serials, so that should prove my ability to suspend disbelief.

[–] filmtenk (765) 7 years ago

But that Liam Neeson scene though. Almost worth the price of admission alone.

[–] bek (759) 6 years ago

I loved this movie. Sorry you didn't like it.

[–] ATG6 (3000) 6 years ago

it was pretty believable when the wife didn't want to try to escape. and she wasn't framed, they had a ton of evidence on her -- an easy conviction. blood on her coat, eyewitness saw her fleeing, earlier argument with the victim, prints on the murder weapon.

[–] Diddy1111 (407) 4 years ago

This movie was awesome. By 2020 standards it would win awards.

[–] Kowalski (76828) 4 years ago

IT WAS FUN...I ENJOYED IT.

[–] chilone (18043) 4 years ago

Ditto.