Picking Nits
The bank calls, Mexico trip, cab escape, apartment gunfire, roof jump, publishing-executive timeline, and company stakes are questioned.
In the discussion (11)
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- The panel doubts that a multimillionaire’s accounts could be drained so easily and suggests CRS merely redirected his calls.
- Nicholas reading account numbers aloud in front of Deborah Kara Unger’s character is treated as implausible banking behavior.
- His psychological-test answers seem insufficient for reliably guessing every password.
- The movie skips how a penniless and disheveled Nicholas travels back from Mexico.
- The panel asks how Nicholas was brought into Mexico and how he could stay roofied for a four-to-six-hour drive.
- Divers are assumed to be waiting if Douglas drowns in the cab.
- The apartment gunfire is explained as blanks plus effects in the walls, but the scale of the staging remains doubtful.
- Nicholas could easily jump a few feet away from the roof target and die, making the planned fall the central liability problem.
- Attempted suicide or fake murder would radically change the party, and recovering emotionally in ten minutes is judged implausible.
- The timeline for the publishing executive learning about the game and accepting Nicholas’s firing is unclear.
- Nicholas’s intense concern over a children’s publisher missing projections by two cents seems disproportionate to his wealth.