He only kills about 3 people in this movie, when he should have killed about 15, but one of them is the co-pilot of the chartered flight for the bad guy. Why kill him? I only watched this thing becuase Statham is cool....but I was sorely tempted after that stupid-as-all-hell part where he flips the car and the crane knocks the bomb off...jeeesus!
but he SHOULDN'T have killed Gianni; remember Gianni injected all of the antidote of the virus in his body? without Gianni alive, there would be no cure.
The co-pilot might have shouted out a warning to the others on board. Better safe than sorry. Besides, he didn't kill "the others" because it would have interfered with the plot. Kind of like Star Trek. If a guy from "security with a red shirt" beams down to a planet's surface, you just know he going to get killed.
Collateral is my favourite movie and through a small coincidence, Statham was in it as the 'Airport Man'. It's a coincidence because I generally follow Vincent's (played by Tom Cruise) irony, like how he says,'No, I shot him. Bullets and the fall, killed him,' and I am going to apply it to a post here.
Max: Crushed to death Frank put Max's head through a window; the crush killed him.
Dimitri: Stabbed in the neck with a gun barrel Martin stabbed him; the gun barrel, wound and blood loss killed him, followed by the impact of falling over.
Lola: Impaled on spikes Frank kicked her. Blood loss and body damage killed her.
Co-Pilot: Neck broken He broke his neck. Lack of air to the brain killed him.
Just felt like presenting it, you know.
'Perhaps here, things will be different' -Niko Bellic
What about towards the end, after he puts 4 people in the container he impales someone with the pole? And I don't remember the Max - crushed one, when does this happen?
I don't know the names of the lesser characters, but I'm thinking that was the dreadlocked dude whose face was shoved through the boat window while the boat toppled over in the warehouse.
Obviously the co-pilot was more than just a pilot, why would you send just some innocent random guy to check out a possible intruder? He was a henchman, and btw he does impale someone with a pole
Because by that point he was pissed off... He had been beaten up, shot at and had just had to blow up a fairly nice lambourghini... he was craving a cigarette and you can't smoke on airplanes now you know... so he had to take out his frustration somehow...
"The co-pilot wasnt sent to look for an intruder he was sent to raise the landing gear manually"
Do you think this is what he would have thought when he saw Martin hiding there? "Hey, This is none of my business. I was sent to raise the landing gear. Intruders are not my job."
Anyway, didn't you guys ever see "Clerks"? It's just like those independent contractors working on the second Death Star when it got blown up; if you're a pilot flying a high-level crook to Colombia on a private jet, you should kind of expect stuff to happen.
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