Picking Nits
The takeover plan, surprise-party cover, one-woman entertainment plan, haircuts, accents, cake logic, pills, injury continuity, ovens, and payment were all questioned.
In the discussion (12)
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- The ease with which armed terrorists boarded a nuclear battleship was the central nit.
- A surprise party was judged too flimsy a cover for activity on a nuclear battleship.
- Flying in only one entertainer for the party seemed implausible.
- Several sailors lacked expected military haircuts.
- Colm Meaney’s American accent disappears in later scenes.
- Jordan apparently slept inside the cake without hearing the gunfire.
- It was unclear whether Busey drugged Jordan or she simply took too many seasickness pills.
- Ryback’s water injury disappears in the next scene.
- The galley uses a gas-style oven even though the Navy reportedly uses electric appliances around shipboard weapons.
- Jordan’s exact job in the attack plan remained unclear.
- The amount Jordan was promised for the cake appearance was debated.
- Whether Jordan was ever paid remained unanswered.