contrived plot hurts the movie overall
this movie was well written and very well directed but they wrote the plot in a contrived way to achieve their plot points instead of writing it cleverly. when they were running from the gang, they had 2 chances to get vehicles to escape. then once gyllenhaal gets shot, pena sits there screaming so the gangsters can find them? this makes absolutely no sense. why is he screaming for help in gang territory? he literally said they're everywhere a second ago. there are tons of ways to make them lose. they could've gotten in a car and another car hits them head on down the alley.
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