Plot hole

and that's not even as absurd as the fact that he can't catch up to him!

There were a lot of weird moments like this that made me scratch my head.

Why did Brody keep bringing the sister along?
Why is nobody speaking Italian in Italy?
Why didn't the girls just unlock the backdoors in the taxi by pulling on the split?
Why was the killer so easy to find?
Why were the makeup effects so bad?
Why did the police officer not arrest him, when he murdered that guy as a kid?
Why did he help him get away?
Why did the officer seem to "understand" what Brody was feeling?
Why did the cops hire him later in life?
Didn't the psychological profile show that something was wrong with Brody?
Why did he confess the murder to the sister?
Did he honestly think that she would keep tight about the information?
What was all that stuff about fire and "blue flame" when the girl was in the trunk of a car?
And why was Brody playing both Enzo and Giallo?!

And that's just off the top of my head. I didn't care for the movie much...

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19. How could the detective not see that it was a taxi that followed him?
20. Why did they wrap up the victim in plastic without checking if she was still alive? (= normal police loose the job!)
21. How could the victim knock out a guy with a lamp like that?
22. Why did she kick him in the butt when he was on the ground? Why not in the head or where it counts?
23. Why does the killer laugh like a silly pirate, ahr-ahr-arh, when he catches the girl outside?
24. How could nobody see her when she climbed?
25. How could the killer be there before her?
26. If the professional policeman called her door locks "good" how did the killer enter so easily?
27. Why did the police shout get down to a armed killer whit a hostage instead of shooting direct?
28, Why did the police not use his last bullet instead of wrestling whit the killer?
29. Why did the police wrestle whit the killer over the shotgun when the two barrels already had been fired?


Argent has always portrayed women like victims, slaughtered, murdered ect. This however is like anti-feminism: the sister in the cellar is shouting bad words all the time, just annoying. She has like no personality. The other sister is just weeping and wining. The idea of strong female characters is not in this movie.

30. From mr Londonx54: The female kidnap-victim makes no attempt to escape from her loosely tied bindings. She lies on the floor of a locked room with her feet and hands tied. In front of her we see a table of torture devices including surgical knives. Why didn't she just stand up, hop over to the table and cut through her ropes?

31. One more from mr Londonx54:
Is this seriously how the director thinks that murder investigations are conducted in 2009? Please note the great scene where they are sitting in a car chatting whilst she, a member of the public, flicks through the detective's case files checking out photos of victims. Is this considered good police procedure in film world?