Il Duce

You just don't understand the symbology of the scene.

Well Connor, Murphy, and Rocco weren't marksmen to begin with, and Il Duce was in prison for the past 25-30 years, so he was a bit rusty. Furthermore, it's difficult enough to shoot with one hand and hit a stationary target at the distance they were from each other, let alone hit a moving target or try to hit a target while moving. Add the fact that being shot at would most likely affect your aim, and this scene doesn't seem as far-fetched. To be fair, Il Duce did hit all three of them, and Connor hit Il Duce in the arm.

In a typical firefight in real combat, hundreds, sometimes even thousands of rounds are fired before even one bullet hits anyone. I remember reading a statistic about WWII firefights, where more than 1,000 rounds would be fired for every soldier struck or killed by a bullet. Because in a firefight, mainly what guns are for is to suppress the enemy, to keep his head down while you have others maneuver into position to either corner them or kill them.

But in this case, Il Duce was said to have ambushed them. Well, if he had, he pulled it off badly. Because in ambushes, the ambusher generally has the initiative and the clearest line of sight to the targets and chances are he's going to kill more than one on the outset, before the others react and run for cover. Maybe he didn't really intend on killing them? Maybe he was sizing them up? Or, maybe, in sizing them up, he was looking to see if these guys have what it takes to be angels of vengeance?

Lol, to below.

I always read it as more of a divine intervention kind of thing. The three do get hit, as does Il Duce, but the only one to get hit and maimed is Rocco.




"Well, Freud was right"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3VlMWTJ9GY