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Good Movie but plot full of holes

posted 14 years ago by blameline
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I enjoyed this movie; it's very watchable and entertaining, but walking away from it, I realized that there are more holes than a colander in this film:

1) Why did Wulfgar go to New York, and how did Hartman know he would go to New York
2) DaSilva and Fox are cooincidentally working together as partners and qualified to be on the ATAC squad. The rest of the squad is all of about 10 people out of the whole NYPD.
3) DaSilva is going to sketch the portrait of Wulfgar so he can adjust how a plastic surgeon may have changed his appearance, and cooincidentally, his final sketch looks just like Rutger Hauer
4) Wulfgar goes back to the same disco where he first met Pam
5) DaSilva is able to finger Wulfgar based on his pencil sketch and in a crowded disco
6) My Favorite: "Get me a tape recording of Hartman's lecture on Shakka, a small tape player, about three feet of wire, and a small activator button." I kind of expected to hear, "Oh, I've got that right here!"

But-aside from the criticism, it's still a good movie.

Next thing they'll be breeding us like cattle. You've gotta tell them. SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!

[–] TrumpIsAHump 12 years ago

Jiminy Christmas, I wish people would learn the definition of the term "plot hole" before infecting the boards on here with their drivel. Small mistakes and what you may think are questionable choices by writers and directors are hardly plot holes.

[–] frankzappayay 10 years ago

7) Where did he get the blonde wig while rushing to save his girl at the end.

I thought it was an ok film.

[–] movies789 9 years ago

I would add the museum scene, where the cops paint a scene of tranquil security by trading radio updates about each diplomat's step-by-step movements, DaSilva gushes a man-crush Chinese dinner invitation to Hartman, and Hartman lightheartedly inquires by radio as to who will pay the check as he ascends the escalator toward a waiting Shaka; the scene screams "hey - all hell's about to break loose!"

Not to mention the tram scene, where all the occupants had magically been researched by Wulfgar (how? in a city completely foreign to him?) and were conveniently gathered together in one odd assembly-point (the Roosevelt Island tram, of all places?) And since Wulfgar was clearly never a suicidal brand of terrorist, why would he pick a stopped tram hanging over the East River, where even he allows to Shaka that they probably won't be surviving? Very improbable for a survivor like Wulfgar.

[–] PhineasAppleby 9 years ago

Wulfgar looking like Rutger Hauer isn't a plot hole. You can't make a movie without the characters looking like the actors in real life.

[–] legnadibrom (5697) 4 years ago

that Chinese food line is straight out of a buddy-cop flick, it's hilarious... totally incongruent to the rest of the picture

[–] sage2112 7 years ago

"Plot holes" are like opinions. Please keep them to yourself.