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Why did they just keep sending two cops?

posted 18 years ago by petekrug17
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OK, let's see here: We have this guy who's going to alternate universes and killing different versions of himself. He's killed 123 versions of himself, and becoming more powerful every time. He has one more version of himself to kill before he becomes all-powerful. So...the police are still sending only two guys after him?! The same two who failed to save any of the other 122 (not conting the first one, who was killed in self-defense,) from being murdered? When neither of the two cops have any special super-human powers? And they believe that if and when he kills all his other selves, the multiverse could be destroyed? So...why just keep sending those two cops?! They should be sending the whole force after him!

[–] huzdaman 18 years ago

It's part of movie-making rules. It's like why do bad guys always capture the good guy, tell him everything about the diabolical plan, and then leave them to 'die' in an easily escapable contraption? Just pull a gun and BANG, you're done.

[–] deianj2001 18 years ago

dude you are right, but the movie would be pointless if there would me an army out for Ulaw

[–] funnymonkey_ha 18 years ago

thats very true...i never rele understood why they do that in movies either. the way i figuerd, if they did send out a whole army, the movie would prolly end within 30 mins if that. so i guess its to keep the movie rolling...i duno, im just saying wat i thnk

[–] GabeShadow 17 years ago

Sending an army after Yulaw only to get pwned would have been ten times more entertaining.

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[–] charleswright805 16 years ago

Sending an army after Yulaw would have attracted too much attention. Two guys are much more likely to get close enough to apprehend him.

[–] Neoblackdragon 16 years ago

But with the fate of the multiverse at stake, does it really matter?

[–] deadbluesky 13 years ago

Well, there's a 2 ways to look at that.

1) It's very dangerous if more universes learn about the multiverse because then other people will try to do what Yulaw did.

2) An army brings attention to itself so that Yulaw would always know where they are and he could always run / hide while trying to kill Gabe. That's why just a few agents is better since they can get the jump on Yulaw.

Now the problem is that they DID get the jump on Yulaw a few times in the movie but they always tried to arrest him instead of kill him. With so much at stake they should have just put a bullet in him the few times they caught him...

AT LEAST shoot him in the legs a few times!!!

[–] PixieDragon 10 years ago

They were deliberately avoiding killing him unless they had no other choice, because they were trying to avoid the different possibilities of what happens when all but one are killed. One of which was the total destruction of the multiverse itself.

Schemers try to control their little worlds.

[–] Herreken 11 years ago

Or they could've used some kind of tranquilizer weapon.

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[–] king_of_bob 11 years ago

Because the whole point of the movie was for it to end with two superpowered Jet Lis fighting. Couldn't have that if they just captured the bad guy.

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[–] king_of_bob 10 years ago

I don't think he was capable of that until towards the end. When him and Gabe were the only ones left. Like we see him doing as the movie ends on the prison colony. I feel like you don't really get much of a sense of his "power" with the gunplay.

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[–] MadRotaryOne_DDCgod 10 years ago

first of all, all movies have the "mook chivalry" trope, like they would stop now?
second, they could send 12 guys to a universe that doesn't even know about time travel
yet, of parallel universes, it can mess up the timeline.