Are you dumb?

The whole point was to get Johnny to admit or remember he was Johnny and thus lucifer could collect his soul.

So from the time the bomb hit North Africa, Johnny had amnesia, face damaged, then Ethan and Margaret release him from the hospital, take him to Time's Square, then he's turned loose. So he's unresponsive and still bandaged up when they release him, then he just gets on his own with no one helping him or someone had mercy on him and took him in. This is where it's muddled.

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Btw, thanks for the great explanation, it really cleared up every point.
But as great as this movie is acted, shot, and written, it just fails overall for me, it's like a "whodunnit" the whole 2hrs is spent following/asking one question, then we get our answer, do we really want to watch it again? (or at least within that year)
Similar to The Machinist or other whodunnit's. Birdy was much different it offered relative drama throughout I could come back to.
But AH just seemed a bit silly as a story, especially the demon baby at the end,
I think the final explanation really gets muddled from all the clues being so spaced out, we as viewers are not sure what to pay attention to and what to disregard.

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If the devil knew it was Johnny the whole time as the facially reconstructed Angel, why did he lead him around on that goose chase, and how did he zone out when he killed?
You mean the devils hands were tied to collect Johnny to hell, because in Angels body the devil doesn't have the right to take him to hell until he sins/murders?
I thought the soul of Johnny in the new body would be enough to take?

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