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The animated conversation at the prison...

posted 16 years ago by ShootHimKurt
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...when the baddie says something to the effect of "I've got about ten years to plan my revenge on you".

Ten years???!!! Yeah *right*!!!

Murder, multiple attempted murder, reckless endangerment on a quite preposterous scale, armed robbery, kidnap, mutilation, GBH, ABH, assault, theft, TWOCing, misappropriation of municipal property... A streetcar (a STREETCAR) full of citizens was rendered uncontrollable and careered, for a very long time, up and down the crowded hills of a major city injuring people and writing off vehicles left right and centre...

Ten years???!!! He'd get ten years just for all the wing mirrors.

What a pile of tired old s hit this film was. Why didn't I just go to bed?

(And don't even get me started on the lip-reading mcguffin.)

[–] Moss-37 16 years ago

10 years!! He didn't even hang around for 10 days before he escaped.....After having his fun fair ride on the coat hanger conveyor belt,what then...how did he actually get out of the building...and then! without help of his stupid cousin and seems to be a loner...how did he exactly reek his revenge for the cop(murphy)without help....silly story!

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[–] jav4927 12 years ago

You should see the legal system in the UK. He'd probably have been sent to prison for about 10 months for all those crimes here.

[–] SeasonalAffective 12 years ago

The lip-reading wasn't a McGuffin. At the end of the film, when Eddie Murphy is in the warehouse and the car is barreling toward him, he looks behind him, at Michael Rapaport, who is watching him through his sniper rifle, and warns him to shoot the car, which Rapaport understands by reading his lips.