1. A special ops military shooter asked to set up an assassination, not smelling a conspiracy after all those years he's served...Immediately I saw the first scene they ask him to plan the assassination I knew he was about to be set up..
2. In the military court room they allow him uncuffed with the rifle and bullet present right in front of him and allow him to threaten a governmental official, it's just ridiculous..
2. In the military court room they allow him uncuffed with the rifle and bullet present right in front of him and allow him to threaten a governmental official, it's just ridiculous..
Yes, the bullet was deftly slipped into his hand by the FBI guy onside.
Still a little surprised no one else had a gun within reach, but feasible I suppose, imo.
One of my fav MW movies.
What you are describing is part of that long, never ending, no right answer, debate = Is the movie as good as the book?
In a book, you are alone reading the story and any kind of scenario is presented to you and you read through it to the end (hopefully) to see how it plays out. Without over analyzing it. These things don't always translate well into visual re-enactment.
Also a lot of these questions aren't asked because we don't usually read a book more than once and then discuss it with others.
Any story, book or movie, could be nit picked apart. especially when viewed more than once, Sometimes you should just enjoy it.
I love this web site, but jeez we pick these things apart. I couldn't even enjoy the new Jason Bourne movie because I knew what folks would be writing here! Well, that and about a hundred other reasons!
Ephemeron.
Book v Movie debate aside... I read Point of Impact twice... and the plot holds up as the author weaves a Full back story to explain why they didn't ping Bob Lee's 'spidey sense'
to have adapted that back story would have added over half an hour to the run time, and messed up the Pacing...
- That is the major advantage of reading a Book alone, versus watching a Movie en masse, You can read the book at your leisure, and process, "When will the shoe drop, what are they really planning... or if you saw the film first, you know what's coming, but you're wondering when the book catches up, and or what else was adapted out... but you can stop at each chapter and digest it... You can't Pause a Theatrical showing.
1. You know because that was in the description of the movie.
2. How you could think that as a military courtroom is beyond comprehension. It was a meeting requested by the FBI with the attorney general.
I really liked this film but at the end, when Bob Lee Swagger explains that he couldn't have shot the Bishop because his guns have the wrong firing pins the guy chairing the meeting says 'you're free to go'
However during the course of the film Swagger killed all 24 soldiers (at the ranch) plus the four guards (CIA or FBI?) three CIA ops at the boat house, three FBI snipers on the mountain and assaualted two Police officers who were trying to arrest him.. He just gets off scot free for those, then?
Yeah you have to suspend disbelief. All of those he killed were working for the "bad guys". But did they all know it? Can he claim self defense? Quite a stretch!
I would say my memory is not what it used to be. But I don't remember what my memory used to be.
All of those agents were part of a covert operation that "didn't happen". Hard to prosecute someone for something like that.
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