Does anyone agree that these are the movie's two biggest flaws?
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RobofNJ — 3 years ago(March 31, 2023 11:04 PM)
But mistakes in courtrooms happen in the time, I don't believe that was unrealistic. Plus remember Nino had money to buy off judges. And it's not like the judge didn't punish him. It's just that certain technicality, as is made clear, let Nino off more easily than it should have.
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Panthro44 — 11 years ago(July 27, 2014 07:58 PM)
The biggest flaw and most unrealistic part about the movie is how the CMB took over The Carter. lol
Yep. That was a gaping hole of a flaw right there. If he really did do that, that operation wouldn't last a week. For starters, it's wide open and stationary. The openness would've been a huge downfall. Any cop could've posed as a staggering junkie. Hell, a dozen could've done it, at once. An Army sniper takes out the lookouts on the roof.
First, they could have a couple cops play junkie and case the building. Locate and block off any escape routes (I didn't see any helicopter pads on the roof, so the ground was the only probable way out). Or they could use those same blueprints Nino used to start the whole thing.
Tenants not even going to work. That's red flags to businesses around town. Plus, how were they paying for their hit? And they were allowed to go to work, why wouldn't someone rat to a boss to get a S.W.A.T. team down there?
Of course, we're using 2000's thinking for a 1986 movie, so, in fairness, we should be thinking in an 80's mindset. Still, there were S.W.A.T. in the 80's, plus people had to go to work, or if they didn't, it wouldn't look right.
But yeah. The whole thing would've last a couple weeks at the most. A month is pushing it. Maybe for police districts to plan an attack. -
RobofNJ — 3 years ago(March 31, 2023 11:06 PM)
This isn't the South Bronx, or Canarsie or Cypress Hills or Levittown. This is Harlem, where judges let off criminals like Nino on a regular basis. The police are even accused of not doing enough by an old war vet in the beginning. It's the complacency of the police themselves.
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