Picking Nits
Easy hospital escape; Rita's simulator offer; the daily re-explanation; how Rita knew she lost the power; the mimics' blood-loss plan; repeat farmhouse trips; fleeing with the transponder; Rita's executions
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- After being locked up near the end, they break out of the hospital suspiciously easily.
- The scene where Rita offers to train Cage in the simulator, though she has been training him all along, feels left over from another script, maybe footage for the techno song, or meant to show accumulated experience.
- How many hours of every day go to explaining the situation to Rita before training can start?
- Rita could not know she had lost her reset power unless she died and the day did not reset; who explained that possibility to her is confusing.
- The mimics bleeding Cage at a dam makes no sense, since blood-loss death is like any other death; they would need to give him a transfusion.
- If they had been to the farmhouse many times, they could have found gas elsewhere and had no reason to return; the counterpoint is that the area may have no gas.
- After stealing the transponder from the General in London, they could have used it in his office and killed Cage rather than fleeing, or asked him to call off the guards.
- Rita's body count: she shoots Cage every time he is injured in training, so what happens when there is a dead major in her gym? A court-martial, with a Daniel Kaffee joke.
- The lesson is don't write your movie while shooting it, at least not one about time travel and alien robots.