28 Major plot holes - please add others
I know that there are already several threads here mentioning plot holes but there are, amazingly, people who still seem to think this is a good film and people complaining about said plot holes are missing the point.
It's true that there is many a good film with one or two holes in the plot, sometimes even gaping ones. But they always allow for the suspension of disbelief.
This turkey has the plot holes coming so thick and fast that even if you continually adjust your disbelief level you just cannot see the film making the slightest sense.
Here is a composite list of all the plot holes I noticed and a few that others have spotted. Please add any more that you know of.
1) Get husband onto roof of building
2) Push him off without anyone seeing
3) Know in advance exactly where the body will be taken
4) Risk involving the morgue director in the plan
5) Know which flight the coffin will travel on
6) Ensure marshal gets assigned to that flight
7) Ensure girlfriend gets assigned to that flight
8) Get explosives into a coffin for which you don't know the combination
9) Rely on a woman and child getting on board without anyone noticing the child.
10) Rely on the child not speaking to anyone, not making any noise, not asking for anything.
11) Rely on their being empty seats on the packed inaugural flight of a new aircraft type
12) Rely on the mother taking the child to lie on those seats
13) Rely on no one seeing the child's removal
14) Rely on no one noticing a man putting his hand into a sleeping woman's trousers
15) Rely on mother going ballistic rather than just calmly talking to people and making requests
16) Somehow manage to get the computerised check-in systems to 'forget' the girl
17) Rely on the mother not requesting the airport authorities check the inevitable CCTV footage
18) Rely on the corrupt stewardess being the one assigned to search the section with the kidnapped child
19) Rely on the captain/airline contacting the morgue (to ask what?) rather than the hospital or police and thus get the fake information
20) Rely on no one, immediately on hearing of the child's death, asking why her coffin is not on board
21) Rely on the mother escaping and opening a coffin that she believes is sealed when there are dozens upon dozens of other luggage containers in the hold
22) Rely on the authorities agreeing to the ransom without talking to the so-called terrorist
23) Rely on them actually transferring the money - how would an alleged terrorist have known if it had been transfered
24) Finding a way to get the money when the authorities knew exactly where it was
25) Rely on the exploding child leaving no trace with an amount of explosive so small it didn't even hurt two people who were no more than ten metres away when it went off. That would not happen.
26) Expect someone with no explosives training to know that the explosives present were of such low power that they would be safe no more than 10 metres away
27) Have corrupt stewerdess remain on plane (necessary to distract Kylie so that the marshal could free and arm himself). How would that have been explained later? Why would she even have remained?
Plus:
Kyle was a propulsion engineer. You know, those big things with the spinny insides that hang down from the wings on pylons. There is no way that would have given here any detailed knowledge of the aircraft internal layout, electrical systems or avionics.