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Most unrealistic part of the film...

posted 10 years ago by Demarates
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Not the shootouts, car crashes or explosions (which the lead all magically surivives), not the continuous errors in geography nor the fact that everyone spoke French in a Flemish-speaking part of Belgium.

Nope, it was the concept of Moroccan immigrants helping out whitey instead of leaving them robbed and beaten. Visit a Brussels suburb such as Schaerbeek for yourself, wave 2.000 € around and find out.

Good call having 18-yr old Nabil drive around in a flashy merc, though...

When I'm gone I would like something to be named after me. A psychiatric disorder, for example.

[–] momanari 10 years ago

Wave 2 euros about? Whatever.

[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

Ha-ha!

[–] spookyrat1 10 years ago

For me it was the car crash and it's immediate aftermath that caused me to say, "Here we go".

They've crashed a car with multiple rolls, stagger out there's another fight. Still no one appears curious about the crashed car.

Then the cops arrive and the two of them, knocked around as they are, escape 2 fit young cops on foot, staggering up a freeway embankment and then suddenly finding themselves amidst suburbia and freedom. All this despite the protesting daughter who wanted (quite sensibly I thought)to go back and get help from the cops.

[–] or_bill68 10 years ago

Some countries use a period to seperate the digits, while the some use a comma. He wrote 2.000, which is the same as 2,000, meaning two thousand.

[–] bloopville 9 years ago

Most unrealistic moment for me was that a black ops killers was also a trained chemist/physicist/engineer who would not investigate the company he was working for and act like a general noob civilian until he is in danger and then he becomes a perfect, infallible killing machine who can maneuver anybody to do exactly what he wants them to do while still making it to the airport in time to go home with his daughter, and there will be no consequences for his actions.

[–] debrecenisrac38 9 years ago

Outside of Brussels, Antwerpen and Leuwen are pretty mixed linguistically, not to mention, many jobs require tweetalig/bilingue applicants.

What bugged me was the plot point with immigrants. Illegal immigration is one thing, but in my sense the screenwriter wasn't informed on settlement by legal measures, especially considering non-Schengen citizens. Companies switching offices or places of business is nothing new, I see that quite frequently. It bugs me however, that after arrival even legal immigrants have to cooperate with local authorities, including the police, who checks the validity of the address given as place of stay. Even if it's possible to empty out a bank account, removing tax paid toward healthcare and pension are not, so the protagonist living here can't be removed without a trace, and the same goes for all of his colleagues. In other words, they are not the type of immigrants with who such a plan could work, not to mention, that third country nationals not having paperwork after a time, and also not leaving the country would light up like a Christmas tree.