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The only thing that really bothered me about this movie


Is that they never said what Napoleon Wilson's crimes were, and why he was being sent to death row. Or maybe they did and I missed it, but I was hoping for them to discuss it at the end just before the big propane tank shootout scene.

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Murder.

Stalker - "Why did you kill those men? I mean, you're not a psychopath..."

Wilson - "But I am an a§§hole. Can't take everything away from me."

Why he comitted that crime is another matter though. To be told only at the moment of dying. The idea or which was lifted from Once Upon A Time In The West.



@Twitzkrieg - Glasgow's FOREMOST authority

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He seemed like a man who wouldn't kill someone that didn't have it coming.

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Its called a McGuffin........ like the briefcase in Pulp fiction. It drives the plot along without being necessary to full explain.

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What I need to know is how he ended up with that name!

We've met before, haven't we?

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