MovieChat Forums > Quick Change (1990) Discussion > plot hole

plot hole

posted 11 years ago by dpharrington
13 replies | jump to latest

The robbery and expected hostage situation are great comedy. Now, many things can go wrong when one man attempts a bank robbery. None of them does, but that's to be expected in a comedy of this sort.

The getaway includes some great gags.

But there's really nothing to hold the two parts together logically. The perpetrators are unidentified and unidentifiable, they live in New York, and none has a criminal record involving robbery.

Surely anyone clever enough to plan this caper must realize that the hours immediately following it are the absolute worst time to try to leave the city. But it doesn't occur to the planner that the gang has no reason to try.

They could have easily held on to their apartment(s), gone about their business, and left in a few weeks, after the heat had died down. But then, of course, no movie.

I'm curious how the French original handled this.

[–] Nathan_Arizona 11 years ago

Yeah, I was thinking, "use your car and drive to some other city, say...Cleveland and fly out from there."

"It doesn't DO anything; that's the beauty of it!"

[–] 11 years ago

[deleted]

[–] MaxOcean4 11 years ago

There was no TSA back then. It was 1989. And hardly any pat downs. Airport security wasn't as stringent as it is today in the post-9/11 world.

And even if they left right away, NYC is a huge metropolis, people come and go all the time. JFK airport is one of the busiest airports in the world. Three people flying off wouldn't look suspicious.

Of course the robbers had planned to get away before the police stormed the bank.

[–] Elephantlips 11 years ago

That's your plot hole?

There are literally dozens of them in this $h!tshow of a movie.

[–] torontodog 10 years ago

No way. I'd be getting out of town too. Plan A was to go to Fiji before the police ever even went in the bank. That was not bad. But when they missed that flight, and the cops were on to the plan, they should have driven to Canada or Mexico and flew away from there.

[–] LeeVing88 10 years ago

Maybe it's a bad plan, but it's not a plot hole. I'm not sure anyone on imdb knows what a plot hole is. 

[–] 06986 10 years ago

Murray sort of gave the detective a hint who he was/he was the one who robbed the bank at the end when he made up that name that had "chip" in it where the detective figured it out as the plane was taking off. This would have been a huge mistake because all the detective had to do was find out where the plane was landing and notify the authorities that Murray was the suspect in a federal crime, he would have been detained and searched when he landed no matter where it was.

Agree with the OP, they should have just laid low/acted normal and hid the money until the heat died down and then left. I am sure they pre planned for the police to be a little hot on their trail but they really had no clue's who they were or where they lived, trying to get out of the city that very night actually increased the possibility of getting caught.

[–] Can_a_bitch_get_a_donut 9 years ago

Came here to say this. I'm not sure what's so hard to understand about the term, but every movie has a thread pointing out a so-called "plot hole," and the complaint is usually that the characters simply made a choice the OP would not have.

That's not even a "goof," much less a "plot hole."

\o/ STEVE HOLT!

[–] [deleted] 6 years ago

"Maybe it's a bad plan, but it's not a plot hole. I'm not sure anyone on imdb knows what a plot hole is. "

Yes it is , Its the first true plot hole ive seen in a thread titled plot hole.
They had no reason to leave, beyond wanting a sandy beach and cocktails

[–] PaladinNJ (21766) 4 years ago

You're right it's not a plot hole. A lot of real life crimes have been thwarted by dumb moves on the criminals part just like this.

[–] Doc80 9 years ago

The original plan involved them to be out of the bank and still calling the police as if they were still in the bank. If they had gotten to the airport as they originally planned they would have been on the plan before they came in the bank.

[–] DodoPatak (127) 4 years ago

About calling the police from the outside, wouldn't they have a caller ID?

[–] thedearnoman 9 years ago

Go *beep* a french whore & have herpes. *beep* french propaganda. French version sucks. Not many people watched that. By the way, Quick Change is an original American take from an American novel.