That was perhaps the intention of the film. Special pleading so you would not class her as a serial killer but there is
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Eightythreeyearoldguy — 14 years ago(August 24, 2011 09:13 AM)
"how come the cop didnt suspect her after she showed up to the scene of the crime and was constantly fishing around for clues about who the cops suspect?"
Did you forget that she's a reporter?
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patrick-310 — 18 years ago(October 31, 2007 02:35 AM)
Peruse the following definitions. Technically she is a murderer, premeditated at that
Vigilante:
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=88299&dict=CALD
Serial Killer:
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TheBeardedWonder — 15 years ago(July 26, 2010 10:54 AM)
^^^^ Please think before posting. If someone gets shot, even a bad guy, they still send cops out to take evidence, talk to people, try to figure out what happened, etc
So technically, she probably cost the city more money dur.
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bajama — 18 years ago(January 17, 2008 02:09 AM)
I agree. And It was way beneath Ms. Foster And I would have thought that she wouldn't play a nutcase with a gun, after the Hinckley-Shoots-Reagan-For-Jodie experience.
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Ken1260 — 18 years ago(February 06, 2008 06:48 AM)
The biggest problem I had with this movie was that she knew nothing about guns and then all of a sudden she was a such a great shot and never missed. She should give up her radio show and teach Movie bad guys on how to shoot since they always miss.
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pking-2 — 17 years ago(July 02, 2008 08:43 AM)
Other psycho killers tend to think their victims absolutely deserve it too. So, finding someone deserving in your own mind before bumping them off doesn't make you sane and safe.
IOW, if a psycho killer only murders other murderers, well, he/she is still a psycho.
She's not ed gein, exactly. But she's out there. The whole point is that vigilantism, though attractive when you feel rage, is a step over to the dark side.
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capechick2730 — 17 years ago(July 12, 2008 09:03 PM)
Anybody remember the Subway Vigilante Bernie Goetz from the late 70's, early 80's in NYC? Crime went way down for awhile after that incident. When the criminals think you are easy prey they have a tendency to go after you. However if they think you might be armed, I bet they think twice about it.
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bjossa10 — 18 years ago(February 19, 2008 11:57 PM)
Maybe the movie was over the top, but anger is a part of grief, and a murder is a horrible tragedy, and let's not forget she was victimized also. I think she wasn't afraid to walk ahead of the pimp because she was armed, and did put a gun to his head previous. Maybe the incident at the grocery store was just a starting point to the story they were tryint to film, so that it somehow expressed that once you kill the first person, then killing others was less scary because she had a first victim. Okay, I didn't really make sense, but I just meant that maybe it was a point to understand how she does go off her rocker.
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JAML — 18 years ago(March 01, 2008 09:34 AM)
yes.not loopholes, but plot holes
drive a truck through is such a cliche
suspension of disbelief is the correct phrase
over and over and over and.over again, people write into IMDB to complain about some little nitpicking thing that they see as a goof in a movie. it is not even about suspension of disbelief, it is about telling a story
luke skywalker just HAPPENS to buy the same droid that his father Darth Vader built?
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MinistersCat — 18 years ago(March 12, 2008 10:29 PM)
I'm about 1/4 through the movie, and came here to look something up. I wasn't concerned with any supposed mismatch of characters (some click, some don't, that's Hollywood), but I was thrown off that they would have "Erica", who could barely leave her apartment building, follow the man she doesn't know into an odd alley, regardless of how badly she wanted the gun.
Furthermore, he tells her the gun is hers if she pays him $1,000 right away. What victim of a recent crime would be carrying that much CASH on them? Even if you think for a moment that she was going in to buy a gun in the first place, she would still be more likely to have a credit card, than carry that much cash. If I understood correctly, the gun shop was a sudden decision after waiting in the police station (isn't she wearing the same outfit?), so she didn't preplan by having that much cash on her. It's too odd.