Guy should have tanked the match

In his own words: "I may have unwittingly entered into an agreement to commit murder, but I would NEVER stoop to deliberately losing a tennis match."

"Worthington, we're being attacked by giant bats!"

Before the match, when talking to Anne (I think), they discuss whether he should just forfeit the match, but conclude that the watching detectives would then know something was up. So he has to go ahead with the match and, what's more, make it seem authentic. Initially the match seems to be going easy, and, of course, Guy ultimately wins the match. So perhaps he felt the quickest way to end the match was to win. If you're 2 sets to love up, is it not easier to close out the last set than to let your opponent win 3 sets? I can't remember the exact score in the game, but I'm pretty sure Guy eventually wins by more than one set - if the match was level and evenly balanced, then throwing the game might make sense. But the fact that he's well on top, and then falters as nerves get to him - it makes sense to me that the easiest thing would be to try to win out, as the quickest way to finish the match.

It did require a rather large suspension of disbelief, especially with the rapid back and forth of Bruno fishing around for the lighter and the same time Guy struggling to finish out a match that he could have ended at any time by simply faking an injury or saying he had a bad stomach ache and couldn't play on. Of course in real life you'd have to be as nutty as Bruno to let a sense of honor potentially foil your only chance of clearing yourself of a murder rap. And it's not like he was playing at Wimbledon...heck, it wasn't even a professional tournament! lol

Still, most movies have scenes or situations that you just have to play along with. But for me the carousel scene was especially jarring and not so easy to go along with. For it's not like Guy was waving a gun around and thus seen as an immediate threat to both the police and the public. There you could more easily swallow a cop losing his cool and shooting into a crowd. Here, though, so what if he started running? Just run after him.

I understand why it was included in the film (to get the carousel careening out of control), but it ended up distracting me from the scene and even soured me to it somewhat.

I really didn't think i could come up with a good signature, but happily i thought of this one.

I always wondered about throwing the match 3 sets to love. But then Edam cheese without the holes just ain't edam cheese. Most of Hitch's films can be taken apart, but they're great and this was one of the best.