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I wanted to like this movie, but it just pissed me off.

posted 10 years ago by Portlis
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We'll start with the obvious: Cindy was ****ing stupid. There are already other threads out there on this very topic so I won't dwell on it. But when everyone in the world is trying to murder you, you don't leave safe places to go run out on to the streets again. I forgave her for the first one, but by the 3rd or 4th time she did it I was just hoping she'd actually get offed.

But more than Cindy being stupid, the entire situation surrounding the arrest and conviction of Robert Hansen was mind bogglingly frustrating. So let me get this straight - you KNOW who the killer is, you have not just a witness but someone who was actually kidnapped and raped and can easily identify this person, and you don't just arrest him? Wtf? It'll go to trial, she'll testify, the jury will convict, and that's the end of the story. What am I missing here?

For the first time ever in a Nic Cage movie, HE was not the most frustrating aspect of it.

[–] jviala 10 years ago

Well, Cindy's testimony really could only convict him of kidnapping and rape, and while those are serious crimes, could potentially only put him away for a few years, and then he'd be out again. And that's assuming a jury believed Cindy, an addicted stripper/prostitute over a church-going well liked small business owner, a seemingly upstanding citizen.

That problem was connecting Hansen to the murders of the other girls. They had to find a link between him and them. They needed the gun that killed them, some token of the girls found in his possession, or some other evidence that the girls were at his home.

In that respect, when they did find the guns, I thought it a bit unrealistic that they didn't think it was enough because the lawyer could argue someone else shot the guns. Yeah, who? And then why hide them in Hansen's house? Really, some random serial killer is going to break into his house to hide the guns? Finding the guns, combined with Cindy's testimony of what he did to her (even with the potential credibility issue), should have been enough evidence. Of course, we've seen juries refuse to convict other killers in the face of seemingly overwhelming evidence because they just didn't want to believe he/she did it.