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Love it except this makes no sense...


The plane that breaches the airspace is obviously a military plane. It's mere presence would warrant an instant military intervention.

Instead they saddle up next to it in jets and tell it to turn around. Really? They get shot at and one pilot dies instantly.

I feel like they insulted our intelligence with that scene.

Also, the response at the white house is strange. People going into lockdown but also secret service going on the roof to shoot at a plane (they get killed instantly).

Also during lockdown, front gate wide open so staff can run out. Wouldn't a lockdown mean you don't open the front gate?

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I love the film too but my main gripe is Banning telling Kang that the kid Connor has escaped. Surely it would be tactically better to have the bad guys waste time, energy and lives looking for the kid.

Also, why would Kang lead everyone to believe that the president is dead? With no bargaining chip the 7th Fleet will just resume their defence of South Korea. Maybe he didn’t care because his real goal was to detonate cerberus 🤔

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