Picking Nits
Abandoned mission; unexplained cooperation; trunk supplies; lone investigator; teacher disguise; stairwell dog; undisguised Eagles gear; late pointing; license plate photo; repeated boasts
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- A nit is raised early: a conspiracy-minded recluse agrees at once when an unnamed agency asks him to plan a presidential assassination.
- Aborting the opening mission and leaving the two men behind strains faith in the military.
- The film never explains why conspiracy-minded Swagger helps the government, or why he never realizes he is being framed.
- It is doubtful every FBI car trunk holds blood-clotting supplies; the river escape is also listed.
- Kate Mara's character having no boyfriend for three years in rural Kentucky is not believable.
- Memphis is the only one investigating, despite spotting that CNN had pre-cut footage within 12 minutes.
- A rural third-grade teacher suddenly plays bait in a blonde wig like a movie star, or Holly Hunter in The Firm.
- Swagger foils several cops and a German shepherd, twice pulling the fake-surrender gun grab while the dog falls over the stairwell.
- The most wanted man returns to Philadelphia without a disguise, wearing shiny Eagles gear.
- Online discussion says a straight-on head shot would have been gruesome, explaining why the archbishop's shooting is barely shown.
- Glover starts pointing constantly about 35 minutes from the end.
- Glover photographs the car to capture a license plate he could have memorized.
- Glover repeatedly telling people he always wins wears thin.