One plot point that I don't get is, why does the whole SWAT team come storming in at the end?
The best I can figure is that when the two cops came to the door earlier, Jodie Foster tried to talk them down, but they had a hunch.
But come on ... you don't call out the swat team for a hunch. I imagine most police would walk away after a 60-second "everything's OK" speech.
When someone calls 9-11, a record of the call is logged. My guess is that the cop who came to the door checked the log and then realized something was going on at the house.
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This is exactly what I was thinking. It's absolutely ridiculous that anyone could use the defence of 'we don't know how the cops would have reacted if they'd known the truth', when the main cop made it very clear that if she needed to say something but couldn't that he would understand, if she gave him some kind of signal. Why would he say something like that and then as soon as she gives him this subtle signal, go 'OMG SOMETHING'S HAPPENING IN THERE, LET'S GO IN PARTNER', and start shooting up the place? It just doesn't make sense. They would have done what they were trained to do, as Meg so unjustly mocked them for. There was no hint, no shove of the hair, no blood on her hands, no blinking. She gave them nothing. There was no real reason for them to come back, especially with a whole team of back up.
People coming with this 'maybe the neighbours heard this' or 'maybe someone saw the body from the street and called the cops back' is not acceptable, you can't just make guess work for the movie to make sense. If none of this is shown to you why would you just assume it happened? And I don't mean in the sense of 'well you don't see people go to the toilet or shower so obviously they don't do that either', I just mean things that actually make the plot more understandable/moves it forward.
The movie really had me invested up until this point, the last 20 minutes completely lost it for me. From the cops being sent away to her attempting to set up this elaborate unnecessary plan to the whole using a sledgehammer instead of a gun to the cops busting in at the end anyway .. Horrible way to end a movie.
They made Forrest's character this ideas man with drills and propane and phone lines and all sorts, but when it comes to them actually leaving the house when they've got what they came for, he gets to a few locked doors and thinks 'Oh i better go the way the woman who's been out here smashing cameras wants me to go instead of attempting to open any of these doors and run right out the door. That'll end well.' Good Lord.