Picking Nits
Healed shoulder wound; Jenny's schooling; uncomfortable father-daughter scenes; unfazed car crash; convenient seaplane pilot; flight attendant flying a seaplane; barefoot hike
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- Arnold is shot in the shoulder, offers to fight one-armed, and two minutes later uses both arms as if the wound healed.
- The wound was needed to make the Bennett fight plausible at all, like the end of Gladiator, where Commodus (Joaquin Phoenix) will not fight Russell Crowe's character unless he is wounded.
- It is unclear whether Jenny goes to school or whether they are in hiding while still getting ice cream; the house was easy for the killers to find.
- The father-daughter opening is uncomfortable, shot like a harlequin romance with kisses on the lips and an 'I love you' sign; he carries her like a small child at the end.
- Rae Dawn Chong's character is not upset enough when her British sports car is wrecked, and nobody is hurt in the crash.
- They conveniently find a seaplane she can fly, and she seemingly naps through the shootout.
- The seaplane base guarded by Uzi fire is in L.A., and a flight attendant trained only on a Cessna flying a seaplane is doubted.
- Why the villains did not kill the daughter once Arnold escaped is raised, then withdrawn after it is explained that they learn of the escape late; the host likens missing it to Tom Brady missing a read.
- In the opening, Arnold carries his barefoot daughter across rocks on a hike.