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10 things I learned from this movie


1. If you are a super spy, you can lie unconscious face down in the ocean for days and not drown.
2. If you are a super spy, your wet suit acts like a bull-proof vest to stop bullets
3. If Marines are chasing you thru an embassy with sutomatic weapons, throw your ginnin a trash can, you don't want to be charged with possession
4. If you're chasing a suspect thru the embassy and come upon a busted lock on a door that is the only exit from the top floor, don't be overly suspicious
5. If its freezing cold out and you knocked out two cops, take off your coat while you run away so you can die of hypothermia
6. If you're a super spy who just got beat up by another, your only option is to commit suicide by jumping out the window in broad daylight - it's a very covert thing to do.
7. Old, dilapidated mini-cooper's tires never blow out going down a flight of stairs of driven by super spies
8. Super spies can magically make the car alarms of a dozen cars go off simultaneously - and remotely
9. Super spies can fall six stories using a fat person as a landing pad, get up, dust off and walk away.
10. Super spies can locate a random person with no access to CIA technology, even when they're renting scooters in Sri Lanka

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11. Super-spies make really good hairdressers.


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11. Your Mom calls you in the middle of an operation to tell you about squirrels being in the attic again.

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Women on the run need to change their appearance, men not so much

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11. Expensive highly-trained black ops government assassins attack high priority targets by crashing through picture windows via rappelling gear in broad daylight with fully automatic assault weapons whilst spraying bullets wildly and ineffectively in every which direction completely missing the target with an entire magazine after which they engage in lengthy but ultimately futile martial arts combat melees and then upon being defeated fling themselves out the nearest window, instead of simply ringing the bell posing as a next-door neighbor or building inspector and quietly taking care of things with a noise-suppressed handgun.

...Seriously, these modern spy novelists need to re-watch "Day Of The Jackal (1973)," now there's an assassin for you. Granted, dude ultimately failed at his mission due to counter-intelligence, but he killed several collateral targets without so much as a single peep, perfectly silently and with zero blood or bodily fluids. It was one of the most interesting things about that film. You can't beat it for realism. A real professional assassin isn't going to make a lot of noise or a huge mess.

"No no no- don't tug on that... you never know what it might be attached to."

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