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Two Heavy Machine Guns And Only One Died


Seems to me they could have arranged something more credible but then these are the movies where one "pineapple" aka hand grenade blows up a city block and the six shot revolver fires up to ten times without reloading. But TWO heavy machine guns, on tripods, manned by two men, pointing at the doorway of the intended victims from across the street in a window? They could have splattered Tom and Matt all over the wall but they wait until both are nearly around the corner. Why, they even verbally acknowledged Tom and Matt's exit from their apartment building doorway and watched them as they descended the steps to the sidewalk below.

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Because then the credits would have rolled across the screen...LOL

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It was TWO hand grenades and they blew out the storefront, not the entire block.

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The director sure screwed up that scene....

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