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If you ever put your gun down in a standoff...

posted 12 years ago by lreed7950
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...make sure you don't get too far away.

Its's ridiculous that members of his old unit would be so proficient with firearms (far too much so for any police officer. No one short of a navy SEAL would use tactics like this enough to warrant or maintain such a level of skill...and they wouldn't wear suits, saunter around in large posse-style groups, or coincidentally happen to look like average, mid-50s, pear-shaped, NYC police officers), preposterous that six of them would decide to take down the largest criminal stronghold in the city on a whim, and just plain silly that they'd put their guns on the ground when asked and simply let Statham, who they know to be faster and better than all of them, casually walk back over to where his gun is sitting at waist height. Apparently, "firearm awareness" was a common problem in that old unit, Statham's equal-but-opposite former partner (who suddenly pops up in the last third of the movie) goes down for the same reason. I know, "it's a movie", but this was too over the top.

[–] doctawho5 12 years ago

Actually many police officers are very proficient with firearms. In big cities like NY they even have these things called SWAT teams. Police officers, in some cases, are also able to put in as much trigger time as some Army officers.

They were able to walk into the casino and take it down on a whim because they had probably done and been trained to do similar raids before. Also, keep in mind that most gangsters are not exactly a well oiled military machine and unlike police and army, they are not trained to act as a unit.

They wore suits because they were detectives not uniformed officers. Being a detective does not mean that you slack off in your training.

The setting down the gun thing was stupid.

[–] lreed7950 12 years ago

Unless you're trolling, vehemently defending the realism of any scene in any film with even a vague tonal similarity to this one = major facepalm. If you're under the age of 12, have a mental handicap, believe professional wrestling is real, etc. - sorry. Otherwise, take your right hand...press it firmly against your face...and think about what you've done.

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[–] targa9 12 years ago

So the whole jumping on the train through the top and out the top and back on the platform again while single-handedly taking out 6 armed Russian gangsters didn't faze you, but well-armed, experienced, corrupt, body-armored, former special unit task force cops breaking into a place to steal enough money for their retirement...THAT was too unrealistic for you?

It's a movie.