Picking Nits
The family walking in on the bath; the not-dead-yet villain; torturing instead of killing; Murtaugh's fading gunshot wound; the unheard helicopter; the Phoenix program in Riggs's file
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- A family coming into their dad's bath will never stop being weird.
- The 80s trope of the villain thought dead who gets up to be shot is flagged.
- Why torture instead of killing them immediately? Just move the shipment day and murder Riggs and Murtaugh.
- Murtaugh's desert gunshot wound comes and goes, like other 80s flesh wounds; a point-blank shot from Mr. Joshua would be felt for 36 hours.
- Murtaugh turning his front yard into a UFC event is noted again.
- Nobody hears the helicopter coming to Hunsaker's house though it is 15 feet away.
- Murtaugh reading Riggs's Phoenix program assassinations in his file is implausible for a classified CIA program; movies never get files right.