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The bomb plot...

posted 10 years ago by steve_n88
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I just watched Brick Mansions which, in my opinion, isn't nearly as good as the original, but it got me wondering, what was the point of the bomb counting down if nothing was going to happen when the timer ended? Other than to create suspense for the movie... Why have the "fail safe" at all if it doesn't do anything? It would've made more sense to set the timer after they left the bomb there or have the bomb go off whenever someone tampered with it right? But than I guess that would make for a terrible movie :/

[–] frankduxvandamme 9 years ago

Yeah, i couldn't figure out the purpose of having a countdown for entering the launch code, especially when at the end of the movie he starts entering in a new launch code in the president's (or whoever that was) office without there being a timer. In most movies the timer starts either after the bomb has been planted or after the launch coordinates have been set.

[–] FourthYear 9 years ago

This sounds like trolling since it's quite obvious, but if it's not:

The bomb had a timer so that the good guy had to go in and "deactivate" it in a set period of time. He didn't know that if he entered the deactivcation code, it would have exploded and killed everyone. It was a trick, by the Police Bad Guys, to get him to do what they wanted to do, which was to set off the bomb.

By not entering the trigger code, it didn't blow, hence why at the end, he used it to expose their plan of mass destruction.