Villain played by.... Rube Goldberg?

SPOILERS reveal the mastermind behind the whole plot


I actually enjoyed this movie (rated it a six, it was above average, but certainly not great).

In any event, I really found the step-dad's actions to be either A) so ingenious I couldn't possibly apprehend their brilliance, or B) unbelievably complicated and something that could only have been thought up by Rube Goldberg http://www.anl.gov/Careers/Education/rube/rubenapkin.html


I mean, this step-dad must have had unbelievable foresight, as this, I can only assume, was his planning process:
A) Buy life insurance on your two step-children (so far, so good)
B) Buy a house in the path of a potential hurricane (getting complex, still feasible)
C) Begin spending money on animals to make sure that a subsequent purchase of a tiger will not look at all suspicious (although, why one would have a safari park with a free-roaming human-killing tiger running loose that could also eat all of the other animals is a mystery to me).
D) Hope to find someone in the US (very difficult, as tigers are not native to the US, I woulda looked for a Puma personally) willing to sell a tiger, who has also been starving the tiger for two weeks (the general premise was that the tiger, having been starved, would be in the mood to hunt down the two step-kids and eat them)
E) Hope that your step-children happen to swing by RIGHT AFTER you bought your starving tiger AND RIGHT BEFORE the hurricane strikes
F) Hope your step-children are such heavy sleepers that they won't wake up as you noisily board them in the house, with the tiger, while screwing in the boards with an electric screwdriver
G) Hope that the tiger actually manages to kill the step-kids and not maul you yourself as you open the door. Also, hope the tiger won't be scared *beep* about being in a totally new environment while a hurricane rages outside.
H) Hope that tiger attack is covered by the life insurance policy.


What a maniacal genius, or something.