At the opening, instead of the sun coming up to show it’s a new day? How about a hundred ninjas attacking a guy? One of them tries to slice him down the middle and for a second you think he missed him, then … bagel dude.
The story of the film may have been based on a novel, but there’s no need to kill my happy-spank right in the credits by talking about a book.
Continuity error: when they had sex, her top’s on. Come on, nobody caught that?
Millions of dollars and the best name the writers can think of for the wife’s divorce lawyer is Ricky? How about Fucked-Up Scumbo?
His backstory is shown by the scenes in the small town with the super-strict school, but I don’t feel we understand the importance of his childhood from this. Could one of the teachers be Geddy Lee? Geddy could say wise transformative things that stay in the hero’s head for life, but in a high-pitched rockin’ wail, with a janitor on guitar.
With movie food, just serve it, I don’t want to watch old women baking.
When his wife drives across the bridge, the whole bridge could have fallen into the river, taking down hundreds of screaming cars, aaaaaaaaaghh! And here’s the topper thing: you never explain it. (Also, things they blew up by accident while setting the charges would look good in the Making Of.)
In the “Third Act”: no way can’t you run faster than that with ten Allah guys shooting at you. And he’s supposedly an expert?
When he’s saying goodbye to his mom on the runway, what would really motivate him for the last half is if she could have got sucked into the jet engine and come out the other side like a kind of mom-spray.
I appreciate the director’s attempt to humanize the Amish man with his sad family story, but a quicker way would have been to give him a Knicks cap. And maybe a pennant on his donkey.
I know that following the storyline literally meant some things did happen in the 1950s, but they could have shown them just as well by flashing back to a time with better music.
For crucial character empathy, explain better what the main guy’s tie was to the dying old woman. He kissed her on the forehead in the old folk’s home but we don’t get any sense that she was going to leave him anything valuable, like her Ghillie suit.
Then like a ten minute funeral. Okay, sadness, next.
L.A. doesn’t have a subway, duh.
What? Really?
They could have put Jennifer Lawrence in somewhere if they tried. Like, a wacky neighbor in pajama bottoms and a half-open man’s shirt who wants to borrow butter. And to make it more of a “date movie,” she could have opened a Cosmo and read sex tips out loud while he’s all comically what-are-you-doing-here?
And maybe earlier he spilled mustard on the zipper of his pants and she notices?
When he sits on the dock at sunset with his brother and they talk about their lonely childhood – snore. There’s nothing in this part that couldn’t be accomplished by catching a huge fish and cutting it open and finding… their father’s finger!
Who goes to a library? Where even is one?
In the end he picks what’s-her-name over her hot crazy sister? I know she’s fifteen but they could have said she’s mentally older. Like by having her hold a math book.
To be in a movie, a chase has to be believable. This can be done by having it go through a market with a lot of screaming chickens and also knocking down one leg of a guy’s tent so it just collapses.
Distracting plot hole: there’s a cat in his apartment, but then he goes on a road trip! Who feeds the cat? Suggestion: Jennifer Lawrence. Not expecting him to be there, she wouldn’t need to get all dressed-up. And, to add physical comedy, the cat could be finicky so she must lie on the floor and smear cat food on parts of herself while meowing.
I like good scene-pacing in a movie as much as the next person, but even if they’re in mourning and hurrying to meet someone who has a clue about the killer, nobody turns down a blow job from a toothless woman in an alley. (Maybe this was shot and edited out?)
Ford didn’t make a GT in 2003. I almost walked out right there.
For me, the “last reel” was flat. But how about this? The cop at the end is a surprise alien! The whole movie was a trick to get tasty humans into a big toaster oven, which it’s revealed is what the police station really is. Then the music at the end could be all dum-dum-dum!
Nobody cares who did the makeup.
