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I liked this movie BUT


1. The gunfight in the bank was horrible. Didn't the bank robbers have machine guns.
2. The tossing of the drink bit. It was badly written and executed. I doubt a bank employee is going to throw her drink.
2. The bank robbers were English. Do all villains in movies have to be English.
3. The English lady who drove the van should get an Oscar for either worst supportng actress or worst haircut.
4. They can only go back in time 10 minutes. Couldn't you just go back 10 minutes 10 times so you go back 100 minutes.
6. When I first watched this movie on pay TV I thought it was a television show. I liked it. As a movie it could have been better.

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1. They had worse aim than A-Team bad guys.
2. Yeah, this was horribly written. Couldn't they have least put her in a low cut top if he is going to talk about her always wearing one, or in anyway create a scene that justifies her actions.
3. Not only is it not the practice of English bank robbers to go on busman's holidays to rob American banks, why did nobody even mention it. FBI bigwig asks female agent who they were, and she tells him they were wearing masks. Hey, how about mentioning the cockney accents, think that might be a clue?
4. I love the way she and the male FBI guy die, and we the audience are supposed to care about the fact their lovers have lost them, but there is zero effort to create any kind of history/backstory or emotional attachment.
5. Don't even start on the 10 minute thing, we could be here all night.
6. I saw it on DVD rather than TV, and from the comments here it is a much better experience. But yes, there was an interesting idea here, but it needed a much tighter script, hell I would have let the time-travel flaws go if they had just been able to write the FBI/Robbers and nerd in love parts right.

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1. It seemed like they were trying to make the bank robbery artsy. Just terrible.
2. I liked the frozen-in-air drink shot.
2b. I think this was filmed in Australia. Even the FBI leader had an australian accent.
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4. The device couldn't jump within a jump. Why is that so difficult for people to accept?





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