These assassins were dumb as *beep*. Understandable in the case of the young one, but nobody lives that long working for the mob while being so *beep* careless.
The problem is that their actions are poorly motivated.
Why does he kill the chick in the shower? Because she saw his face? What nonsense. If the government gets to her, they're going to ask about her relationship to the new boss, not some lowly, dumbass assassin. Hell, they wanted Armand/"Blackbird" so they could use him to take down the new boss.
Now this is so supposed to establish (set up) his anxiety towards people seeing his face, which is suppose to then motivate murdering Diane Lane and her husband. Again, the solution there is worse than the problem. Moreover, she identified him to the police, who have a record of him (they had the black and white photo of Rourke). It's not like he's some super-secret hitman.
Midway through Rourke fakes his own death in order to "buy" some time. So what does that mean exactly? Dental records take a couple of weeks to come back? How does he know what his time horizon is? If the FBI is reasonably confident they can go back to their lives, then doesn't that suggest they're satisfied with the investigation into his death? That means Rourke ought to have left the estranged couple alone and high-tailed it. Who cares if she can identify him if he's a ghost.
We're supposed to see Rourke's character is not a total monster, as evidenced by the fact he allows her to go upstairs unattended. Why? She grabbed a frickin' shotty. Did they not search the rooms thoroughly enough before hand? Yeah, who on earth checks under the bed?
The movie had decent enough setups and payoffs, I suppose, (the bullet in the gun, the deer hunting stuff) but to what end? Everybody came off as unbelievably stupid.
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