Picking Nits
Crew photograph; witness security; calm baby; sailors and Mounties; Capone’s impunity; Ness’s moral shift; falling effects
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- The artificial-looking fatal fall is blamed partly on period effects, with Die Hard and The Departed comparisons.
- Allowing a crew photograph conflicts with distrust of everyone; the promise not to publish it does not eliminate the risk of Capone obtaining it.
- Celebrating and smoking during the witness transfer neglects an obvious security priority.
- A baby should be crying while bouncing down stairs in an old carriage.
- Sailors repeatedly entering lethal gunfire to save the carriage seem implausibly self-sacrificing.
- Mounties advancing slowly with revolvers against automatic weapons should suffer casualties; their unscathed crossing is implausible.
- Capone’s prolonged immunity prompts frustration, countered by public demand for alcohol and bribery.
- Ness moves too quickly from a law-abiding family man to casual lethal violence after his family is threatened.