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Picking Nits

Kidnapping plan; wounded survival; investigation shortcuts; journalist involvement; mother’s trips

In the discussion (10)
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  • The staged kidnapping is rejected as an absurd risk to one’s child, especially with armed Creasy guarding her.
  • Leaving Creasy alive in hospital is questioned.
  • The lawyer’s 25 percent fee is questioned.
  • Creasy surviving four shots and continually bleeding during recovery seems implausible to the hosts.
  • Torture victims retaining enough blood after severed fingers or a shot-off hand seems implausible to the hosts.
  • The investigation’s steps are hard to follow even on repeated viewings.
  • A deleted scene reportedly shows Samuel beheading the lawyer.
  • Creasy locating a secret network so soon after intensive care seems too easy.
  • The journalist's wholehearted support for a vigilante operation without editorial challenge is questioned; her imagined immediate murder is speculation, not a stated film event.
  • Why does Lisa accompany business trips during the kidnapping crisis instead of staying with Pita? — Craig Horlbeck