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Chris' escape and Hannah is to blame for everything!

posted 4 years ago by bpj (2)
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Vincent Hannah literally is responsible for multiple deaths, chaos and disaster because of his approach to this investigation. When the crew leave their botched vault robbery he says 'they will walk away and you will let them!' Siply because it's not a big enough arrest. Well if they had beenarrested the crew would've been broken up, all put under probation supervisin and added understanding of their addresses activities etc, it would've stopped the bank robbery and all those deaths involved in it. Not to mention that if it weren't for Waingro the bank robbery would've gone down perfectly anyway. Hannah is 100% to blame for how disastrous events unfolded, and without Waingro he basically just let a bunch of robbers go loose to get awaywith a massive bank robbery. NOTHING he did in the film actually contributed to the catching of the crew it just fed his insane ego about catching Mccauely himself.

Secondly what the fuck was the deal with Chris driving away? You're telling me the most wanted fugitive in America doesn't have a mugshot they can verify him from? Why would they need Charlene and Charlene alone to identify him? Just arrest him and check him out, check his image against his mugshot? That part of the film is brilliant but so outrageously unrealistic it's absurd. There must have been dozens of criminals low level thugs, cops, etc who could all positively identify him. The idea that only his wife could tell if it was him is ridiculous.

[–] daveyh (641) a year ago

with the first point, I think it was to show how disciplined and calculated both men were. Just as McCauley was willing to walk away from a takedown when they'd almost completed the job and when he'd spent who knows how much money for the intel on the place, plus the man hours planning and preparing for the job, so Hannah was also willing to walk away from a guaranteed bust because it wasn't the offence they were hoping for.
The only problem was that, the way it happened, it showed that McCauley knew that they were on to him and would therefore change up. He's clever enough to do everything else that Hannah's observed and even admired at times, it stood to reason that they'd also be devious enough to be able to ditch the surveillance when the time came.
Had the crew been walking away from the job for any other reason (such as the vault being empty or not being able to break through or finding out there was another, unexpected alarm or whatever), fair enough, let them walk and wait for their next job. But the way it happened, Hannah really should have taken into account the fact that he'd tipped his hand and that Neil now knew that he was onto him.

enough's been said about the 2nd point already and I've nothing good to add.