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Is the mother supposed to be a sociopath too?


I don't understand why uber rich millionaire (billionaire?) sociopaths are dumb enough to go out committing their own crimes. I understand the son is crazy and likes it, but was the mother a psycho too? She could pay some gang banger a couple grand to off the PI and the lawyer but instead she goes out in broad daylight with a gun she's probably never used and starts shooting people? Why even get her hands dirty?

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Yes, mom is psycho too.

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You're right, but often times there's an impulse to do it yourself to keep other people from being able to implicate you -- how two people can keep a secret, only if one of them is dead.

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How did she even knowe the PI figured out her son was guilty of the other murder? And then before he could even finish calling McConaughey, conveniently speaking in riddles, she guns him down.

McConaughey believes Louis murdered Frank by beating the tracker. So where is Louis headed? To McConaughey's house, presumably to threaten or murder his family. How does McConaughey know where he's going? The tracker.

The whole plot is beyond stupid. The rich kid hires a lawyer that worked a similar case, one where is INNOCENT client went to prison for life. THAT'S the guy you hire? The one person who can make a connection between the similar cases, but it's supposed to be "clever" because of attorney-client privilege. In reality, it's dog dumb.

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