Interesting film with a terrible plot (Spoilers)

I thought the book was much better and compared to most Hollywood cop movies the plot was pretty intelligent. Of course it's very dated now with the digital video stuff but at the time it came out most people were not aware of all the trickery.

One thing that seemed dumb to me watching it years ago was how they went to all the trouble of editing out the ghost when they could have just copied footage of the empty room and looped it. They also could have left the clock untouched and pasted it over the footage. Nobody would know the footage had been altered. That would seem like the most logical and efficient way to doctor the disk.

All movies have stupid plot points, because like real life people make mistakes, lie, exaggerate, omit, distort, assume, misperceive, etc. For ex: they assume it was an Asian murderer, because she had Asian semen & pubic hair on her, but that doesn't follow. Maybe she had sex with Eddie earlier or somebody wants to make it look that way. (Also, that kind of contradicts the ending, when we learn she had sex with an American, but maybe he used a condom.) Even with DNA testing, people can be framed or convicted on circumstantial evidence - being in the wrong place at the wrong time (like your girlfriend's ex-lover kills her after you have sex). The idea of deducing the truth sounds good on paper, but reality isn't as simple or black-and-white as a Sherlock Holmes story, IMHO. It's messy and gray.

I think the ending is intentionally cynical and ambiguous. You have two compromised protagonist trying to get at the truth but face adversity from organized crime and Political corruption. They were both on suspension at the end which would of probably would of led to charges being filed against them for not staying in line.

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