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Very good

posted 3 years ago by Aries (775)
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This movie was pretty entertaining and downright hilarious at times, like LOL funny. The cast, acting, character development, emotional depth (without getting too thick) and action scenes were all well done. Mads M was awesome as always.

But I think the twist towards the end was unnecessary and made the whole plot ridiculous, as well as take away the impact of his wife's death. The could've omitted it out altogether and the rest of the movie would've been much better for it.

It also pushed the 'suspension of disbelief' trope to the max, with they way they had all those really loud gunfights in civilian areas and not have any eye witnesses reporting them to the police. Also, how do they all get away scot-free at the end and celebrate Christmas like a normal family after butchering a whole bunch of people, esp. with cops and ambulances arriving? Claiming self defense would've been hard to sell, esp. if the cops found out the paper trail & computers tracking the movements of all the other gang members Mads M had shot & killed previously.

[–] cyguration (3891) 3 years ago

Claiming self defense would've been hard to sell, esp. if the cops found out the paper trail & computers tracking the movements of all the other gang members Mads M had shot & killed previously.

Well they had information on the gang, but no actual evidence they killed anyone. Also they could easily delete any incriminating info before forensic investigators step in.

Also, self-defense would absolutely work since the gang was on his property with guns, and various people who lived there were injured.

[–] Aries (775) 3 years ago

They had the files showing the first guy whom Mads kills (the brother of the main baddie) as a 95%+ face match, plus his text messages, address etc. Then they also had the surveillance footage of the 4 guys in the club who get shot & killed, their text messages. Not to mention the guys who get killed outside the fat guy's house when Mads & co go there to get his hardware. All that would be too much of a co-incidence for the cops to just waive away. You also need to remember that the Statistics guy actually went and presented the exact same case to the cops before as well. How could they not put 2 and 2 together?

Even if they didn't have those things stored in the computer, any decent forensic team could easily see that Mads & co were tracking the moves of all the guys who've been killed (more than a dozen, in 4 separate incidents) by running surveillance on them, recording their text messages, getting their background info into a database and clearly had the gang's info & pics neatly assembled on that display board in the barn. That establishes premeditation and the bullets from Mads' rifle would also match the ones from the previous executions.

Self defense would only fly if the final shootout was the first and only time the two parties engaged in skirmish. They never showed Mads' team hiding the bodies from any of the previous 3 times, so no way the cops wouldn't know about those murders.

These are, of course, just plot holes and they didn't bother me as much as the unnecessary twist with the Arab guy did.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

You make one big assumption and that is that the police and prosecutors would have given a shit about who killed a bunch of lowlife thugs. Sometimes the police don't really try to solve a crime when they know that it saved them some work down the road.

[–] Aries (775) 3 years ago

LOL, you're saying the cops would ignore 10+ people who got murdered in cold blood just because they were in a gang? Those guys were slaughtered with machine guns in civilian areas in separate incidents. No way would they ignore it and let the baddies take out each other in this day and age.

[–] [deleted] 3 years ago

Go look at the number of unsolved murders in a place like Compton, they have a low rate because the cops don't give a shit.