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Begging For Some Sense Of Urgency At The End


Here's the situation: you have roughly 10 minutes to find gold that you don't know the location of at gun point before a bomb goes off killing your girlfriend and baby. So you argue a bit with the bad guy and take a stroll to the stables (I'll be generous and assume you needed time to think of a plan) Roughly 2-3 minutes later (or what ever it was) you manage to temporarily stun the bad guy, conscientiously step on his glasses (good move), yet not take the gun..hmmm.
Then instead of running back to the Van (which should have taken half the time it took to walk away from it) you wait, on a horse, in a stable for the guy with the gun to pass so you can burst out dramatically, end up even farther from the van on a renegade horse, crack a joke while riding said horse (because the circumstances are just hilarious), run through a crowd, and attract security (because clearly you have that kind of time). Then somehow you make it back to the van with roughly 2 minutes to spare (give or take) so you've effectively wasted five minutes. Then, of course, you move the baby away from the van first(good move) but apparently the baby being alive isn't good enough so you have to make sure he's warm, take off your jacket and console him but what's another 10 seconds when you're girlfriends about to get blown to kingdom come, right? Then you go back for her, outsmart a seat belt (I'll admit that scene was relatively logical so I won't complain). Then you manage to hot wire the van of an evil technological genius (you'd think he'd make it a little harder to jack his van) and drive it away but obviously just getting to an open space in the middle of the racetrack doesn't suffice your heroic desires. Instead of hightailing it the instant the van was clear of people you wait until literally the last possible moment and run the van through a perfectly good JumboTron (are you gonna pay for that?). On top of that, for a bomb that was meant to kill thousands of people the explosion was rather pathetic but that's a minor offense compared to everything else. And, how can I forget, the killer does his best Michael Myers impersonation and *poof* he's right behind you!!
Gotta love those logical sequences of events...NO
Any sense of urgency in this entire scene was microscopic if not nonexistent
and I honestly liked the movie until this FAIL of an ending but, hey, maybe I focus too much on the details...

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yep, pretty spot on.
if the timer and walk to the stables were longer the horse ride would have made some sense.

...and how come a bomb made by a genius had no motion sensor?

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