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Perfect Example (SPOILERS)


This is a perfect example of how descriptions of movies ruin all the plot twists. The description on directv tells right off they both have the other's identity, so there is no suspense or wondering if Cage's character will wake up from the coma. Movie after movie ruins plot twists in descriptions and/or trailers.

Also, I usually mock people who go on highly rated movies' boards and say how bad they are, but I absolutely must LAUGH at anyone who gives this a 7 or above. It's VERY rare that I notice plot holes, bad logic, and bad acting. I have a VERY low bar for being satisfied with acting and logic. But this movie takes the cake.

I could literally find something that defies logic or is a plot hole in almost every 5 minute section of the entire movie. I mean COUNTLESS flaws. And every actor was bad except the daughter. So basically a 17 yo showed up Travolta and Cage and everyone else. The little boy character who is in the last part of the movie.... that was even the worst acting of all and creepy. Maybe the casting people were crazy?

Just to show how accepting I am of movies, even after ALL of this, I still gave it a 6.

edit: Oh and check this out. According to directv, apparently this ahs a 91% on rotten tomatoes? Are you kidding me? That just proves how people will rate things with horrible flaws as good movies so when they rate a great movie poorly you can't blame it on the production, acting, logic, etc.... when this proves they'll rate movies with tons of flaws still as good. I know I am wording this weirdly, but I am in a hurry.

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I'm going to go on a limb and suggest you are under the age of 25 and don't remember the 90's well?

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Well before I saw it back in 1997 all of the summaries I read stated that it was about an FBI agent who takes on the identity of a terrorist to infiltrate his world and discover his secrets, despite that plot point being pretty much over 50 minutes into the film. Nowhere was it mentioned that the terrorist would take on the identity of the FBI agent.

And yes I fully realize there are countless plot holes like how it's impossible to graft someone else's face onto your own, both men would have died very shortly after the procedure, or how Archer still talks in Troy's voice despite the microchip coming loose, or how the stuntmen are totally obvious or how in Erewhon prison the Geneva convention is void, the inmates are allowed a trial yet it's apparently illegal to torture someone (I'm referring to Pollux) to find out the location of a bomb with a blast radius of over a mile. Despite that it's still at least a fun movie to watch and Travolta and Cage are phenomenal.

"I really wish Gia and Claire had became Tanner" - Honeybeefine

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