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Couldn't he have just paid a few staff 30 million for the month?


Where was the salary cap? I always find it weird that he pays them a small amount in terms of the 30 million he needs to blow.

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They told him he needed to get value for his money, so I don't suppose he could just pay one member of staff £10 million an hour.

This rule does only seem to apply when it's convenient to the plot though.

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Yeah, but where's the cap, what DICTATES how much he can and can't pay? Shouldn't there always be some team of 'checkers' with him that tell him 'no, you can't do that' or 'the cap for this is 4700 dollars', or something?

It makes no sense to give him strict rules, but then LET HIM DECIDE the amounts throughout this whole thing..

Let me ask you this - who decided how much 'security service' is worth in value? Where does he get these numbers he so spontaniously spews out amidst excitement? Why can he pay the hotel 2 million, but not 3? not 4? not 5? Who decides and why? Why would he EVER pay a low amount, if he can pay a high amount?

So some kind of CAP explanation would definitely have benefited - but not saved - this movie.

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That was kind of my point.

They told him that he needed to get value for money, but there didn't seem to be any policing of this. Buying a valuable stamp, and then posting it isn't getting value for money either.

It's just a movie, meant as a bit of fun. Best gloss over things like this.

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