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Not a bad movie, but too contrived at times

posted 2 years ago by TylerAArse (2652)
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Lots of corny crap just sorta randomly happens so she can do her dirt.

The main thing I wasn't buying was that she went to this detective's house to kill him. She knew where he lived? How the hell did she get there? How did she get in, cause I seriously doubt he left the front door unlocked at night. And I didn't know she had been trained as a Ninja.

Actually even worse is how she got from the Institute in Estonia to Russia. There's a dozen gaps there. Surely the institute reported her missing and the deaths on the way out. And it baffles me how the Russians didn't seem to be too concerned about the kidnapping of this kid, even if she didn't reveal it to them. They just kinda glossed over it so the movie could get her to America.

Twist you usually don't see until the end of movies. I liked that this was halfway through and that you get to see the consequences of all the drama associated with it, even thought it was far-fetched at times.

Still it was a pretty decent movie.

[–] PepperoniToni (7) 2 years ago

I agree with what you're saying. Another problem I had with this was, if the mother knew the orphan wasn't hers because she had killed her daughter, why didn't she just say "no, that's not my girl" and walk away? Nobody would have questioned it. I'd have gone to Russia (because one has to play along and pretend that you're hoping it's your child), said that's not my kid, but let's get a DNA check just to be sure. I suppose her motivation must have been to make the husband happy.

[–] TylerAArse (2652) 2 years ago

Another good point. I think I recall some very weak reasoning about her doing this for her husband. The table scene at dinner was very funny/strange. There's 3 people full of tension, aware of all the dirt. Daddy is sitting there happy and absolutely oblivious to anything. His happiness is what she ultimately wanted. Still, I thought it was a weak motive to go to such extremes to do it.