A few stupid holes (not plot holes)

It makes sense that the Jared Leto character is going to be able to investigate and find out who installed the panic room, and hook up with Forrest Whitaker. I can understand that. That's fine.

But does it make sense that someone who is the grandson of a very wealthy old dude, someone with that background, is going to be able to find a stone-cold killer like the Dwight Yoakum character?

"Directory assistance. What city please?"

"Yes, I'm looking for some muscle on a safe heist, someone who's not afraid to get tough and maybe even kill someone. Brooklyn is good, but Bronx is preferable."

"Just one moment please. Here's the number you requested."

According to Jared Leto, Raoul is just supposed to be "a bus driver from Flatbush." Where does he get a gun from? Where does he get a silencer from? Where does he get the ability to put a bullet in Jared's head at 10 feet? Again, a bus driver, there's a pretty good chance that's a city job. Someone like Raoul, never been in trouble with the law? I don't think so.


The second stupid hole is roughly the same. How is the Jared Leto character going to get money for the bearer bonds? Where do you go to do that? Is there some sort of bond redemption facility you go to that just brings out a truck with $22 million in 100 dollar bills, neatly stacked on pallets? How does that work? And even if the Jared Leto chracter knows, how would the Forrest Whitaker character know?


Next, it's one thing to install a safe room. So, Forrest knows all about the phone lines, the steel and concrete, that there are video monitors and VCRs, and that there's no way in. He knows all this. Again, that's fine; he should know all that. He even knows that there's a safe in the safe room. Cool.

But how does he know how to crack a safe? Yeah, I get it, you drill it open somehow. But how? Is there an online course? Some pamphlet that shows you how? Is it advertised right next to the X-ray specs in comic books? Where does he get that cool microscope thingy that he puts in the hole he drills to see the cylinders? How does he even know where to drill that hole? The guy would have to be an expert safecracker to know all that - with a criminal record to match. Not someone you'd have working at a security firm.






I want the doctor to take your picture so I can look at you from inside as well.