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So many things wrong with is film but I could accept it if it was funny,


Buts its not its truly one of the dumbest films I have ever witnessed.
Why would a flight from London to Malayasia have to stop in Lithuania because of a Volcano in Iceland for starters

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I agree, this is a truly flawed film. We could probably turn this thread into 50 plot failures.
2/ If European flights are suddenly cancelled due to a volcanic ash cloud, how does Vinnie and his gang get to Lithuania so fast?
3/ At the original poker table heist, why expose their collaborator, the only person who could identify them to Vinnie?
4/ Why on earth would they go to the painstaking effort of butchering a pig on the pretense of making a delivery to the club door? Just delivering an empty box would have served the same purpose!
5/ Is it likely that a large group of attractive hen party girls would choose to limit their socialising in a packed nightclub to just two guys , an overweight guy and a scrawny guy? Really?
6/ Do flight attendants and airport security always allow blood stained unconscious/unresponsive people onto planes?
7/ All of our protagonists are exceptionally unlucky to be robbed or rendered unconscious or both on their first night in Lithuania in three different scenarios. I also lost count of the number of times a character lost consciousness as a plot device.
8/ In the shootout at the end, a few flimsy tables are enough to prevent hundreds of pistol and shotgun rounds from causing anyone any serious harm. OK, apart from one flesh wound.
9/ Not really a plot failure, but why was there a guy wearing a wet-suit and fins with the people trafficking van?
10/ The chances of the very same priest being present at two such distant locations at the middle and end of the film is desperately far-fetched.
11/ How on earth Vinnie's henchman recognises the Guardsman on the CCTV footage is ridiculous. Oh, the palace guardsman just happens to be in a picture on their wall calendar and the henchman has an uncanny photographic memory.

Have fun listing some more, goodness knows it's the only fun you'll get out of this film.

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"9/ Not really a plot failure, but why was there a guy wearing a wet-suit and fins with the people trafficking van? "

Thats'a a lot stereotypes (and sad reality), maybe too much for one movie. Seconds before that guy was visible pile of boxes with cigarettes - actually that's a reality, some smugglers here actually uses fins to transport this type of "goods" (state border line goes along river). They even are called "Ichtyander's" by another movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055844/). On the other hand human trafficking in that place is almost nonsense, stereotype of greedy smugglers, using one van for everything.

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