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beep that didn't make sense to me

posted 8 years ago by tuix00
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- How could such an aircraft breach that specific airspace?
- How bad of a response time do the protection units have in case of a white house attack?
- How bad is the defense of the white house in general?
- How stupid can the air force be?
- How stupid the villain must be? There should be food stored for months inside that bunker. Maybe years. Why the hell did he leave?
- How stupid is the house speaker as acting president and the joints chiefs can be? If the president is taken hostage within such a big event, the proiority is the safety of your government, your missiles, your army, and the general stability of the god damn world. Not the president or his god damn kid. They have no importance in such a situation and are expendable.
- How stupid of an idea is cerberus? Didn't the inventors of this system imagine such a terror attack can take place? Is it that smart to keep such power limited to only 3 people?
- How on earth did the villain know about the cerberus anyway?
- How can an ex secret service guy open all safes in the white house with random codes he knows from before 18 months ago? Don't they update that *beep* regularly?
- How stupid can the "smart and well trained commandos" be?
- Traitor in secret service. Really?
- Last but not least, how the *beep* can the intelligence agencies overlook any kind of clue that would lead to this attack? They have eyes and ears and solid intel about the other end of the world. But they can't protect themselves from such a terrorist attack?

There could be more inconsistencies or just stuff that didn't make sense in general. But these are the ones I could recall right now.

I am not usually a hard critic of patriotic Hollywood movies, but this one actually did suck. Why was this movie shot anyway? What is the message, the purpose? The sole reason seems to be mindless action with a terrorist plot that doesn't make sense to be taking place. I rarely give 4 points to a movie. I might have even given too much.

Thoughts?

Here is a potato for the long post ♥

[–] ATurtle05-1 8 years ago

Why the *beep* does the Secret Service Director not follow standard radio security rules in, after Banning has identified himself with a code number and identifier, screaming his name. In a situation like that normal procedure would be to assume that all communications have been breached and not use names. This is why all Secret Service "protectees" have code names - "Eagle" for the President, "Sparkplug" for Connor etc.

[–] jwolf-313-851162 8 years ago

You guys shouldn't take this movie serious