Judy and Wes
How did it take so long for any other cops to arrive at her house?
shareThat was where it totally lost me. She calls for "all police" to converge on her house, where a mass murderer is, then she has time to get to the house, fight and lose to the killer, then the son gets out of the shower, gets dressed, has time for his hair to dry, then multiple moments where we get the fake out "is the killer behind this door?" music, sets the table, eventually gets confronted by the killer, fights him, loses and dies.
And after all this, not only are the cops not there, but there aren't even sirens to be heard.
There's suspension of disbelief and then there is just nonsensical movie making.
Felt the same at the end, where Sidney and Gale took forever to walk through maybe two rooms to get to where Ritchie and Sam were having their long climactic battle. In that case, you could argue that maybe their battle with what's her name was simultaneous to that, but the film did nothing to establish that.
I think we're supposed to assume those two scenes were concurrent. Better explains Amber's "one last scare" moment I think. But yeah it could've been better established. I guess they probably felt editing to show that would've involved switching back and forth and might've broken momentum.
shareI don't think there was that much momentum to be lost.
But either way, that's filmmaking. It's a director's job to make the audience understand something, not just assume something that you've done zero to establish.
Amber's "last scare" was also truly stupid. Shot multiple times and burned alive, but gets back up to attack again. But this is the same 110 pound teenaged girl who completely overpowered a rugged former Sheriff, so maybe we're supposed to believe she was superhuman to some extent.
Yea some of the scenes were way too ridiculous, although it was a decent enough thriller over all.
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