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I am confused by the layout

posted 12 years ago by Planet-38
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The flats are across the hall from each other. I am trying to wrap my head around a layout that would allow a sniper on one side of the building to be able to shoot into the windows of flats that are across the hall from each other.

I even drew out several layouts - its like one of those brain teasers - but unless they are in some kind of mobius strip, how can it be possible?

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[–] tristanp25 12 years ago

Good question. I was asking myself the same thing after watching the film. However, the film does hint that more sniper traps could be set up after one guy is shot dead near the elevator by one. I'm sure there were traps set up close by (the tenant's windows) and ready to shoot upon sensing motion. It was obviously well planned by someone with obvious experience with firearms and such.

[–] Planet-38 12 years ago

Good point! I forgot about the possibility of more (and motion sensing) traps.

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[–] blaggins 12 years ago

Erm... Unless I'm missing something, all their apartments were on the same side? The side the sniper was on (hence them trying to go down the back, where the sniper couldn't see).

I can't recall if there were doors on the other side of the corridor or not, but if so I guess those apartments were empty.

[–] dist_roy 12 years ago

Yeap, they are all on one side. If Planet-38 would have been paying any sort of attention and actually watched the movie, this thread wouldn't have been written...

[–] chrcoluk 11 years ago

of course the big question is why not escape the other side of the building, and especially whilst distracting him on the first side, I liked the early part of the movie a lot but the sniper part of the story had plotholes.

[–] darthjaye 11 years ago

Biggest plot holes were:
A) He was somehow able to target any window within a second of someone opening it but apparently didn't have a thermal scope.
B) Although from several outside shots we are shown that the building (from the scope shot we see through and knowing the detail he is getting in that shot in turn tells us that is where he is) is at the most the same height, he seems to be able to target something on the same even level as the top of the other would be. Also when he was watching he was setup at the level of the apartments not the building top itself.
C) He owns the only 7.62 sniper rifle in history with a impossibly short silencer or suppressor that doesn't blow out after a few rounds and completely quiets the round so that no one can hear it coming.

[–] chris-rogers2 9 years ago

It was a 5.56mm Ruger Mini-14 actually. He only fired anbout 30 rounds

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[–] raf-33 11 years ago

of course the big question is why not escape the other side of the building

Try watching a film before you ask big wrong questions. They do try, they make a rope out of firehose.

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[–] marlarkey 9 years ago

There are a lot of tower blocks in London with flats on only one side of the access corridor.... however most of these are apartments on two levels... the corridors are on every other level and the upper floor of the apartment spans the entire width of the building.

Not saying that was the case in this building (as there was no sign of an upper floor in the apartments).

There are also some blocks where the apartments alternate - and the corridor is one side of the building on one level and the other side of the building on another level... there are multiple lift shafts with lifts calling at every other floor.

[–] hovaoc149 11 years ago

the flats were never across the hall from each other. if you look at the corridor you can clearly see there are no unit doors on one side.
the 2 people were killed from the other side because there were motion sensor traps in the elevator and presumably the roof access door (although this was never shoen)

[–] marlarkey 9 years ago

Lots of tower blocks in London with access corridors on only one side like this.