Picking Nits
Body carried out unnoticed; implausible murder and disposal; bad police work; wiping off prints; the elevator carry
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- A mother's biggest nitpick after about 330 viewings: nobody notices Gere carrying a body in a rug out of a New York apartment, and a passerby even offers help.
- Everything about the murder is dumb: why, how, and the disposal; Martinez is guessed at 6-2 and Gere 5-9, and a dead body would not fold into a rug that way.
- Dumping the body at a landfill instead of burying it reflects the entitlement of well-off suburbanites.
- The police were bad: DNA, a cleaned-up pool of blood, the wife's fingerprints, her phone number, and parking tickets out front; her parking-ticket lie is called decent.
- Wiping one glass with his hand is a movie cliche; a real killer would need a montage of wiping everything.
- Pushing a 200-pound body up when the elevator breaks down would be an Olympic event, beyond even LeBron James.
- Earlier flag: Connie giving Paul her husband's gift is implausible because it is directly traceable to her.
- Earlier flag: Edward cleans the apartment of blood and DNA for 19 hours but leaves the detective photos in his jacket.