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Hillary Duff just straight up murdered the villian...


That's horrible. I could understand the nanites accidentally falling into the guy's mouth or something, but she might as well put a .44 Magnum into the poor saps mouth and pull'd the trigger.

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Isn't that messed up that we're the only ones who care that she totally killed that guy?

I know it's a kid's movie, but her character should have been completely traumatized for killing a guy, even if he was evil.

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There were a lot of things in this movie that seemed very *off* for a kids movie. That scene was one where my friends and I all made the universal sound of disbelief. It's kind of a "Hwah?!" noise.

The bisarre relationship between the main character and his adult female CIA handler also comes to mind. That locker room scene?!?

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I'd been thinking "if this were a Bond movie instead of a kid's flick, the bad guy would get one of those ice cubes in his mouth and be eaten from the inside" then just a few seconds later it actually happened.

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I thought the locker room scene was rather funny........

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He did try to kill her after all. I'm not saying that what she did was justified, just understandable.

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But did she have to do it in such a gruesome way?! The man was eaten alive!!

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AH HELLO...
that guy was a bad guy.. he helped the CIA agents....
plus hilary duff is just acting... but the actual girl is NATALIE CONNERS...
Dummies.. and also.. she is just a charactor from SCREENPLAY...
:P

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eh i wouldnt really call anything hilary duff does as "acting". its more like she vomits all over what was already a waste of a film reel.

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someone had to do it right?? ... and since the bad guy was harassing her father all the time I think no one would be better than her to teach him a lesson. U jus can leave everythin to Cody Banks.... Hilary also have some importance you know..

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She might not have known what the ice thingy would actually do to him. Although I found it a bit gruesome.

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When that section of the film came on and I watched her cross the platform and just SHOVE that cube into his mouth I just thought "WAY TO GO NATALIE!" I thought it was HILARIOUS. And I thought it was nice to have the female lead "ice" (Pardon the pun) the villian instead of the hero or male lead doing it. Natalie wasn't the typical damsel in distress. Yeah, Cody needed to save her a few times but she was still strong and fought back.

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that still scares me.

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I just can't believe that he swallowed it. Did you see the size of it? I can't swallow an ice cube half that size without keeping it in my mouth for a bit, lol.

When I first saw it, I was thinking "hey, she killed him. That's not how it's supposed to be. Heroes never kill the villains..."
I guess it's just a 'stuck between a rock and a hard place' type of situation. What else could they have done to get rid of that guy?

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This was written as a teenage fantasy, and I think they did it wonderfully. Yes, teenagers do fantasize about extremes, especially if for a good cause. This guy kidnapped her. This guy attempted to hill her, exactly the same way she killed him. She even appeared traumatized as she realized he was actually going to die. The scene was to show she was equal on some regards to Cody, and was 'trouble' as Franswa had told him.

Great teenage fantasy, positive message! Save the world!

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Did you guys see the look on her face when she did it? It was pure evil, that girl wa messed up. She was all gleeful!

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That's exactly what ruined that part in the movie. She should've had FURIOUS look on her face instead of an all-gleeful face. That would've made more sense.

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I know, I was just watching it with my girlfriend one night cus it was on TV and I thought WTF, and then we just got silent for a moment and I was like, "...did Hilary Duff just kill a guy?"

Don't mess with that bitch, she is hard core.

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haha she shoulda been the agent. Tough, hard bitch. Lol, go girl.

Death: "There is no Justice. Only me."

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