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Major Plothole (Spoiler!)

posted 16 years ago by Ramuna
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Actually this movie is ok to me, I just don't get why Danny should go through all troubles while in the end still he executed the two dirty cop by himself, it's true if you guys would say he went through the FBI to expose that two cop, but there's always chance of failure and still when you decide to shoot dead two cops whether they're dirty or not...be ready to face execution yourself, there's no way Danny could get away from it since Bubba the FBI guy already notice him and the motive. But if he by any chance decide to execute the both without anyone knowing anything, that way he might has his chance to get away with. I think it's better after all those troubles, he might just as well let FBI(or should it be Internal Affair) do the job.

Anyway, assuming your wife's killer by just a single piece of 'red' hair is totally ridiculous. Let's just say that he is right eventually, but it makes him looks like Sherlock who were made just to fit in the plot.

So guys, are we on the same boat or you guys do have defense about those?

[–] Killer_7_ 16 years ago

I think shooting the cops over a single red hair would be ridiculous....but not so much him pursuing them over it.

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[–] sonoftony-148-699736 8 years ago

But....he was absolutely correct.

[–] theBattleHills 16 years ago

I don't think its that far fetched that he got them from one red hair, though the seeing the guy and noticing his ring part is. He used the FBI to get the money for the big score and then left them out so he could kill the two men. How he got out of the hospital at the end and wasn't then sent to jail is another story though.

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[–] Ramuna 16 years ago

Much of the screen trigger-itchy protagonist is jail-proof I guess. You have just reminded me of similar case that Travis didn't get slammed in after the massacre he did to the pimp & co in 'Taxi Driver'....

[–] diesockmonkey 14 years ago

I think he had doubts as to how it was all going to pan out. Especially after the one fed called him a worthless rat and stuck up for the two cops. He didn't care about himself at that point so was willing to risk it all to make sure the cops died. He was also strung out on drugs, so the planning might not have been the best at that point.

As far as him not going to jail, why would they risk trying him infront of a jury? He was a guy who went under cover to avenge his wife's death by bringing down a major meth ring. I doubt they'd want to risk him being painted as a hero. Its also unlikely that they would want to bring publicity to the fact that the two cops were dirty. That would cause many legal problems and potentially free all of the criminals the cops put away. More likely they'd just brush as much of it under the rug as possible and chalk it up to yet another drug deal gone bad and use it for further fuel for the war on drugs.

[–] grillmasterj 14 years ago

That's actually a fairly good explanation.

Anyhow, like an earlier poster said about sausages, if you're going to watch a movie, there has to be a certain suspension of disbelief.

[–] Caidrac 15 years ago

"Anyway, assuming your wife's killer by just a single piece of 'red' hair is totally ridiculous. Let's just say that he is right eventually, but it makes him looks like Sherlock who were made just to fit in the plot."

Remember, one of the FBI agents said the same thing, then they went on to explain that Tom/Danny looked into the ring which lead him to find that Morgan was a narcotics agent, and the FBI tapped the cops' phones. He used the FBI to verify his own suspicions. He wasn't 100% certain when he became their rat...

[–] pathalogik81 15 years ago

He had two identities, and I'm not sure if the FBI would want to press charges after the massacre they had on their hands. Or if they even knew who he was when he went to the hospital to get treated no? It's not like they just posted up there waiting for him, they probably thought he was gone, and the massive drug ring/corrupt cops/solving of his wife's murder/he was acting is self defense may have been the reasons they swept it under the rug.

[–] crawen77 15 years ago

I don't think that qualifies as a plothole at all. He wants revenge over the bastards who killed his wife, it seems to me he doesn't care much what happens next,as he has already put his life on the line several times already he could just as well have been shot. Payback is the key word here, and seeing the IA or the feds haul them away would ruin his chance of getting it

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Anyway,somehow it all seems preferable to having your package shred to bits by a rabid starved badger in a cage. Hihihi

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[–] crawen77 15 years ago

I took the liberty to assume that,as it looked so enthusiastic.
He's probably just hungry. lol

And i do agree that it doesn't really look like a badger, but in the movie D'Onofrio says something like:
".....and that doesn't make for a happy badger." if I remember correctly.
But i think his name was Captain Stubins lol

I don't do drugs anymore... than say, the average touring funk band. -Bill Hicks

[–] Rat_Fink 15 years ago

I love this film, but I have to agree. The back story to lead him to the killers of his wife is very shaky. As is the end where he gets away scott free. That being said, movies, like sausages should not be too closely inspected.

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[–] thesignal 15 years ago

Don't be so stupid. It was some bed & breakfast out in the boonies, they were on their way home from a day at the Salton Sea and he pulled over there to have a piss. That is probably the only plot hole, I mean if you needed to schit - fair enough, but to pull over to some creepy lodge in the middle of the nite just so you can have a slash seems a bit strange.

Up until that point he was your standard all-American guy, not involved in drugs or drug culture. If he was, he may have been more thrown by the hundreds of bottles of cough tablets scattered around everywhere and would have grabbed his woman and got the hell outta there!

Coke heads? Pfft. Cocaine has nothing to do with the meth culture this film is based on, they were speeding off their tits - not on coke dumb ass.

[–] marchingman 15 years ago

Also, don't forget that he didn't just stop in there to take a piss. That was sort of a "while I'm here" thing.

If you paid attention, you remember after his wife asked him to stay at the sea he says something along the lines of "I got us lost." When we first see them in the meth lab, they are getting directions from the guy of how to get out of there.

So him "stopping in a random meth lab" wasn't to take a piss, it was for directions.

[–] rhyannon33 15 years ago

I really don't find the whole idea all that far fetched. Everything is tied together. The cops say they found a read hair on his wifes body. This flashes him back to the gas station where he saw the guy with red hair.. which reminds him of the ring. The ring was familiar to him because his dad had one just like it. If you saw something like that every day for your whole life you would take notice of it if you saw it on another person. He then uses the FBI to confirm his suspicions. I don't think he was arrested because he was able to take down the entire organization.. and on top of that he acted in self defense. Keep in mind that the guy comes up behind him with a gun with the intent to shoot him in the back of the head.

[–] agonotheta 15 years ago

They probably didn't know it was a meth lab, it was just some house.

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