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Why the hell just not release the Video-proof of Defense Minister capturing the russian President

posted 5 years ago by Mikester (121)
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They have footage of russian defense minister doing a coup on the president.
At minute 44.
-> They have video-footage of the russian president being held back by armed men, while his bodybuards are shot by the defense minister.
Easy - just release the footage and the defense minister's plan is destroyed and it will go to civil war in russia or something instead of attacking US!?

All the generals will know of the coupe, Problem solved!

Much later part of the movie:
Final 'they have locked on and we cannot move' - just phone them and put the president on - ok, they do that, later
The captain just tells them to hold fire, because 'hey, you guys know me', well.. how about he tells them their president is on board!?

*Now* they want get an audio of the president and send it to the russian generals?! How about the fuckin video file of the defense minister taking the president hostage like pretty much at the beginning of the whole movie!?

[–] thingmakersback (1184) 4 years ago

I know... I just watched it. When the dockside killings happened and the SEALs got excellent footage with sound of the event, I said, "OK, so order the SEALs out... Withdraw the submarine... Release the footage. Story becomes all politics...
But, no. The plan is to send four unprepared, guys into a huge facility full of alerted military to extract a guy who could be ANYWHERE. This "plan" relies on the Russians having terrible security (They noticed the SEAL transmission and just sent some guys to casually look around and randomly shoot up some dockside crane) with nobody actually watching the docks. The only way it worked was finding a not-yet-dead Russian security guy who spoke English and, somehow, knew just where the President was at that time. Now, that was some great planning. The escape required the Russians to be incompetent again - Nobody on the dock side of the building.
I'll just ignore the silly underwater adventures that seem about as realistic as Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.