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Poorly Written Scenes Had Amateur Feel

posted 11 years ago by pinkled5
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The whole movie had poorly written scenes that smacked of unreality. People just don't talk that way or do those things. Examples:

1) Conversation between Amber and Kevin about the goat-tee on the dead guy. That crossed the line into silliness.
2) Getting out and punching a guy in your trunk with people everywhere around our car.
3) Blowing up the entire top floor of a hotel. How did they smuggle in that many explosives and place them without being detected?
4) Buying a bike for your high school aged daughter and insisting they ride it.
5) Shooting the bouncer outside of the most popular club without any consequences.
6) ViVi is doing like 60 MPH down a busy city street and looking at Ethan the entire time.

I only watched it half-way through before shutting it off, so there were probably a lot more.

[–] Judimex 11 years ago

I thought the same thing about this movie. It felt like I was watching a light comedy with a bunch of killings as a filler.
Way too many plot holes.
It was a complete waste of time and talent.
I expected much more from Costner.

If it harms none, do what thou wilt.

[–] jcrew617 11 years ago

Taken was so much better done. 3 Days just had awful editing for a supposed action movie. The first action scene in the hotel was fine, but then the movie slowed way down and was not edgy at all. I expected much better from Luc Besson - who is amazing. McG just sucked it up BIG TIME.

Maybe McG is just more of a "Family Pop Filmmaker" instead of a slick-action filmmaker.

I wanted to see another Taken - but got a watered-down Charlies Angel.

[–] Attila_Krieger 11 years ago

Well you just stated what i was thinking, so yep, awfully written.

And the punchlines....ouch so bad.

It felt that the guy who wrote it, was 13 years old, or less.

Some things might work on paper, but not in a movie though, and the guy who wrote it probably didn't knew that.

[–] taxvictim 11 years ago

And it was 30 minutes too long. This may have been more watchable if the editing had been a lot tighter.

And what's up with Vivi? In her introductory scene she looks like a dowdy analyst. They never explained why she made such a bizarre change.

[–] scoup 11 years ago

It was like watching an immature teenage girl trying to act like an adult woman and failing miserably.

The cocky attitudes were overplayed. The strip club was cliched. The family relationships were hollow.

[–] seans_life 11 years ago

It was like watching an immature teenage girl trying to act like an adult woman and failing miserably.

The cocky attitudes were overplayed. The strip club was cliched. The family relationships were hollow.

The cocky attitudes were fine. Cocky is cocky. There are people like this in the real world.

In regards to the strip club it was shocking but it was meant to be shocking. I think the point of that character, Vivi Delay, being so different and luring was that it was to make us think about whether or not Costner's character, Ethan Renner, could resist the excitement of the job he had for years and a woman like this vs settling down and spending time with his family. It is about choosing the job or your family and people battle with this to this day to this very minute that I am typing this.

In regards to the family relationships they were not hollow. They felt real enough for a movie like this and there were moments where I had my heart strings pulled.

This may not be a great film but to me it set out to do what it did and did it fine. Not a great movie but 7/10 for me.