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Why not find a way to remove the bomb?


I don't know if i missed something, but as far as I know, the bomb was not medically inserted into the woman. Why did they have to try and cut her in half with a pocket knife blade?

She hit the floor more then once in the movie, it's not a sensitive bomb. I would have tried to find a away to remove the bomb, before I attempted to cut her in half and break her spine.

I still enjoyed the movie. I just thought it was kinda odd.

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it was secured with a bike lock, remember?

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Couldn't they have pulled it down her waist and thrown it through the hole, instead of trying to push the button with the cane? 5/10

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@ Riotboy, that's EXACTLY what I was thinking. Just pull the damn bomb off her body and throw it!

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No, she was too fat.




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Was she still too fat after they completely tore her apart?

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Nope but I think there was still spine left. And he had no way of getting the bomb out after everyone was rescued.





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Cut off a few flaps of skin and suddenly she's thinner, bomb slides right now and off her at her feet. Tossed down the elevator shaft, problem solved.

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How would he toss it down the elevator shaft?After they were rescued he couldn't open the doors again.





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He means before they were rescued. So yeah they could have taken the bomb off and gotten rid of it.

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Yeah but it would be easier to sort of filet her, cut the parts of her flesh and fat as they are pulling the bomb off her body rather then to cut her in half and go through the bone.

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They should have shoved the kid through the small hole to push the button. Oh wait, if they had done than then his arm wouldn't have gotten ripped off.

When everyone was out, why did the SWAT team lower the evelator to the basement to get the last bloke out? Why not lower it just one floor? Oh wait, then he couldn't have been a hero and gotten blown up.

Why didn't they use the corpse to hold the doors open?

More importantly, what happened to the handbag of pee?

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"They should have shoved the kid through the small hole to push the button."

That's what I was thinking.

I mean, if the guy succeeds in pushing the button he has zero certainty of how fast the elevator might move, so getting his arm cut off would appear to be an obvious consideration. Not to mention, shoving the kid through the opening would also save the kids life by getting her off the elevator. Double bonus.

But that was just one of the more obvious absurdities of the film.

As for the pee-bag . . . the guy left in the elevator received a golden shower. Question answered.

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This is just a thought and I'm probably wrong, but aren't bombs meant to be quite delicate? Maybe they thought that moving the bomb might set it off?

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