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The phone booth shooters (possible plot hole)

posted 17 years ago by tdot3000
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When Marisa and Leo were at the computer and they had the i.d. of the the people who had shot up the phone booth from the squad car, how did the shooters get identified?

[–] krdement 16 years ago

I thought the same thing while watching this film tonight for the first time in many years. This is possibly the most glaring glitch. Another glitch is that Bryan Brown and his assistant elude two or three police cars in the afternoon, and then Brown is able to drive his huge, easily identifiable van to the mob mansion that night, without the cops being able to find and follow him. One more: when Dennehy left the police station, after being suspended, how did he know where to find Bryan Brown? This is still an extremely entertaining film, and both Brown and Dennehy are very compelling.

John 3:16

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[–] PopperTheKungFu-Dragon 10 years ago

One more: when Dennehy left the police station, after being suspended, how did he know where to find Bryan Brown?

Actually, that isn't a plot hole. I don't think he left the station with the intention of finding Rollie. He just went over to Mason's address and then found the two dead or unconscious?? guys there.

[–] moviechatterer (13834) 18 days ago

how did Rollie know where the mansion was?

[–] tt69 16 years ago

Fingerprints.

[–] Huckleberry99 16 years ago

Watching it again, still love it, but I thought the same (OP) thing. And prints came to mind as well.

But wouldn't experienced contract killers/cops know better than to taint a scene with prints?!

OT(And yes that damn Grahme girl was awful)

[–] jenniferles1000 15 years ago

i also thought this so i rewinded the scene and the female cop says they were identified by fingerprints at the scene of the crime probably when they were checking the body and finding out it wasnt Bryan Brown.

[–] PopperTheKungFu-Dragon 10 years ago

I thought the same thing when I watched that scene, but I guess as some other posters say, I guess they could have been identified by their fingerprints.

There are one or two minor flaws like this, but overall I think this movie is great fun.

[–] mcfly-31 9 years ago

Not to mention if two guys -- not just dressed as cops but in an NYPD squad car -- opened fire on a phone booth, that there wouldn't be witnesses. Even in the rain, everybody sees something in New York.

"Jesus, does anyone?"