Not that I wanted the bad guys to win, but it really pissed me off that he couldn't get that shot off while she was trying to stop him. They could have at least wrote it so he didn't still have control of the gun for so long. It should have been easy for a marksman like him to make that shot quick, it wasn't even that far. Dude was adjusting the scope like he was firing from two miles away. In real life that *beep* would have been detonated.
shareIt didn't appear to be that far away, but I think it was supposed to be. At one point he said that he would be out of sniper range, so further than usual.
Anyway, this is just another flaw in this hideous mess :D
calucey I am more upset at the way Emil Balan, the main bad guy played by Roger Rees, was killed off. He hired the hitman and look at what the hitman did to him at the key moment in the movie? I still don't even know what Nash, played by Pierce Brosnan, said to him before he killed him. I thought it was an anti-climactic way the main bad guy was killed off. Not great writing for this movie but still entertaining enough for me to give it a 6.
shareThe hitman (Pierce) made a new deal, by negotiating half the money his other client stood to gain from Wall Street following the Times Square terrorist attack. As soon as that happened, Pierce was no longer working for the angry scientist, but for himself and other client. The scientist was also a liability to his identity and such. It actually made more sense for Pierce to kill the scientist than to keep him alive.
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When logic and science aren't on your side, you always lose.
Check it again. The Doctor did not hire the hitman the other guy did. The hitman never liked the Doctor, he thought his greed motive was just too "crude", so he killed him.
Actually the only reason he did kill him was so he would not interfere with the climax fight scene. I don't know why they just did not let him leave after meeting up with Nash. I don't think the professional would have wanted him to tag along anyway.
Yes the movie would have been a better ending if he got the shot off, proving she was right to all those stupid *beep* British morons doubting her AND her own superiors. It's a poor screenplay.
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