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Good movie let down by unbelievable character behaviour **SPOILERS**


1 - the cop shoots his partner by mistake...and instead of riding the BS that will inevitably come tries to cover it up...ok thats kind of believable but more on this later

2 - the girl who just accepted the drive in the car with the cop

3 - when suffering from sleep deprivation the cop never seeks advice or even asked to get switched to another hotel room or even take sleeping tablets

4 - the killer somehow thinks he can blackmail a cop....yeah right

5 - the cop actually siding with the killer and rather than nailing the sob and denying what the killer would say that he killed his partner, which would essentially be the killers word against the cops, he decides to frame a kid instead

6 - the female cop does nothing at the end when she has found the bullet case at the scene of the cops death

the more you think about this film the worse it becomes...nr 4 is the key to the whole movie and its appallingly bad

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2) She had a crush on him.
3) You make a good point about sleeping pills, but how would advice or another hotel room help him?
4) Why not?
5) His co-workers were already suspicious about him. He couldn't risk having the killer say that.

Also, every bad decision he makes is part of the character study.

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