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I hate parents like this.


I can never quite understand how parents with the personality of Shawn think its everyone else's fault for their child's actions. I mean Shawn clearly knew his son was a POS why blame his friend and his son, it's not like he didn't know what went down? If my child misbehaves its on them. I cannot for the life of me comprehend why some parents defend their bad children sometimes it's not the parents fault you just have a bad egg.

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Well, Sean was a gangster and killer. It doesn't matter if it was his sons fault, it doesn't matter that Michael did nothing wrong but be at the wrong place at the wrong time. His son was killed so he had to go after the ones he felt were responsible. There's no logic involved, just killers killing each other for little to no reason.

I no longer know who I am and I feel like the ghost of a total stranger

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Shawn was a bad egg but Danny was trying to prove himself to his father to much and it never being good enough in the criminal enterprise. After he died Shawn realised his short comings and became a case of revenge for Shawn to make himself feel better

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It was a little contrived story, because it was clear that the son reacted very aggressive to this drug deal; and he knew his dad would never accept it. So why doing it? It makes only sense if the son is somehow in debt with this schmucks.

Shawn should have understand that his son probably has a drug addiction (because he supposedly saw it with many of his friends?) - but he didn't.

For the sake of the story I would have believed that he is simply a nasty crook used to power, and by that "law", he has to avenge his son. But this is just a writing trick to make the reasoning more believable, and give Ed something to work with.

But in the end, he didn't reacted sane. By including dead cops and a city wide manhunt, he forced anybody in the game to choose a side; more even his whole enterprise is at stake - not to forget the numerous stormtroopers he is wasting on this.

Its an old school movie with many plausible and well shot action scenes, but the story falls flat at too many places to really reach the upper class. Maybe this is just the type of movies that sell.





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doom2256 do you have kids? I do and I would die for them. I would seek out revenge on anyone that brought harm to them. If you do not have kids then you can't understand this.

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What if your kid was raping and killing innocent people? Would you defend your child then?

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as I understand Shawn was no better at that age. it is not like he had an innocent past. So seeing his son remind him of his past mistakes.

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There's a huge difference though between an innocent child getting killed and someone who essentially deserved it, and then you seek revenge anyway. You can love your child but still see that what they did was wrong. Making other innocent people pay because of your child's actions makes you no better than him.

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His son would most likely have been a lot different if he hadn't raised him in the enviroment that he did.
I disagree that the father didn't have any blame.

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Right? If you MUST kill someone, then kill the person who you KNOW did it, who is sat right across from you when you tell him you're gonna kill his son (who you know had NOTHING to do with it) The Ed Harris character did not convince me, at all. Revenge is one thing, but not when it has no logic to it.






"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"

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the point is even in real life people do things that do not make sense to most ED Harries character was a psychopath.
you must have met people that did something that did not make sense.

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Of course in real life I've known people to do things that don't make sense... but in fiction, we tend to have a demand that important things are explained well enough, otherwise it's just called 'lazy writing'...

Otherwise, James Bond could spend half of a movie with a teacosy on his head apropos of nothing, and that would be okay because people do weird things, sometimes... In stories, you need a plausible reason, and I didn't find this to be convincing.








"Your mother puts license plates in your underwear? How do you sit?!"

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I understand you view of thinking however I like that characters are not as predictable and I must have watched to many 80's movies cause I didn't take notice of it during the movie.

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