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A fair number of silly blunders


I am on record for having enjoyed the film (most of all Gina May), but there were actually a fair number of silly blunders.

1) The old human shield trick. Dolph is holding a bad guy in front of him as a shield. The latter is being struck by numerous high power rounds from assault guns at very close range, yet none fly through the body and deliver lethal wounds to Dolph, as they certainly would have in real life.

2) Hummers in full military trim, which are absolute slugs in terms of road performance, have no trouble at all keeping up with motorcycles and high power road cars, accelerating and cornering like supercars.

3) Repeated lengthy burst of automatic fire from assault guns without reloading, ignoring the reality that an AK-47 will empty a banana magazine in from 1 to 4 seconds depending on capacity.

4) Suppressive fire from a handgun used completely inappropriately. Various characters empty handgun magazines wildly in seconds when they should be trying to make aimed rounds count. For anyone experienced, suppressive fire, basically unaimed, is reserved for key points where someone wants to provide cover to someone else or himself when shifting position, not in an exchange where both sides are firing from cover.

5) Someone steps completely out from cover to fire at close range, and is strangely immune to being hit the moment he steps out.

6) The old "gigantic yellow fireballs" from grenades, but no apparent fragmentation effect.

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