It's a very nice attempt. But the plot holes just annoy.

Great points!

Yea point number one blew it for me. That cop was an asshole and there was no reason for him to have done that.

On #1, they explain that at the clothing store. They knew Merriman and company wouldn’t kill him when they had so much heat on them.

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To add some more.

1. How did they even know about Merriman? They showed no history that would explain why he was even on their radar.

2. Why didn’t they arrest Merriman once they got an informant? He clearly gave them a tonne of information to work with. And there is no way they would have let them actually get inside that bank that allowed them to escape. They would have more than enough to stop them and arrest them before they entered the bank.

3. Hell they push how they will kill them anyway. So why were they even pretending to actually care about catching them. Not just cornering them and killing them.

4. Why on earth did Merriman corner the cop in the house. Just to get his number? Completely pointless scene. Made no sense and just means you’ve outed yourself completely to the cop.

5. A guy comes to you with a bank plan, he gets revealed as knowing the cop you know is major crimes, and you just what.... keep him around? Nothing screams set up to you. They have already killed cops.

6. The first scene makes no sense. It’s an empty armoured car. Why on earth would any of the security guys try and stop or do anything. We are led to believe is was a mistake but even the guy in the car wouldn’t get out. Like it’s fucking empty there is no money who gives a shit.

7. All this for $30million? Split many ways it doesn’t seem worth the risk and how hard it would be to pull off. Makes more sense to just keep hitting low profile targets and build up the money from there.

8. Why weren’t the cops working with literally anyone else. I get we are meant to think there cowboys but holy shit they aren’t. They are just horrible at their job.

9. Not a plot hole. But what the fuck was the point with all the bullshit drama that happened with the cops wife. Literally cut that out and save 20 minutes of movie time.

"8. The Federal Reserve job...So many technical details would have to have been gleaned. Right down to the fact that there was a vent in the room for him to hide. Listening to people talk in a bar....No inside help. The enormity and scale of such a job and they just go along with it."

The "inside help" was one of the two black women who kept ordering asian delivery from inside the Fed. We see her give O'Shea a knowing wink after refusing to tip him because it took "too damn long" on the final order. That was when he delivered the old food in the bag he'd hidden in the restroom ceiling.

The other black woman wasn't in on it and ran to complain by calling the front desk to call him back in. But we see the woman that winked at him along with the Hawaiian phone guy Merrimen burned drinking at the Irish pub O'Shea was bartending in at the end of the movie.

What I thought was sort of lame is if the Hawaiian guy was in on the double cross with O'Shea, why did he act all pissed and cuss to himself when Merrimen left him high and dry? It's like that was a deliberately contrived scene to mislead the audience.

"3. The whole 50 cent daughter dating scene.... Yeah it was cute, but why?"

Cheap attempt to humanize one of the robbers. They did the same with Gerald Butler's character getting all emotional about losing his daughter in the divorce; to try and make a lawless, douchebag cop seem more likeable and human instead of the thug that he was.

""5. Plot twist realization scene....Usual Suspects anyone? I'm surprised we didn't have the Kobayashi voice over.""

good one. yeah it's a sad wannabe knockoff of heat.


another gripe i have is, the genius kid was just not plausible at all. came off like pure SJW casting to me.