The first one that comes to mind is the prison visit scene where the two creeps are discussing their "ring" being discovered. You're telling me the detectives are trying to track down a massive child abduction ring and they didn't bother checking out who was visiting one of their prime suspects in prison?
I thought the exact same thing,
The police where really useless, they where too busy thinking it was the father
I don't think detectives working on these kinda of cases would be that stupid, the writers made them that way. even the scene where Mika turns the camera back on i'm sure their tech knowledge wouldn't be that bad
sharetrue. plus, it isn't that easy to just remotely turn the cam on. even harder when it's a mac.
shareDidn't Cassandras abducter just turn off their cam?
Meaning the detectives camera werent really turned off
no. the detectives can showed "no activity" (led switched off) and then the abducter remotely turnd it on, which was made clear by the green activity led in the laptop switching on out of a sudden.
shareThe problem with the latter (the silent one-end remote viewing) is that it requires some serious hacking, an injection of a trojan for instance. It is not as simple as just pressing a couple of keys. The best spyware can even do it without the LED being turnt on.
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Yeah, that got to me. The camera going on. Even I would be suspicious in a station involving people who thrive off the Internet. I'd make sure there was no way for someone to record ME through the computer. I'm not a police officer or a detective, but even I know it can be done.
I still don't understand Cass and the repeating of the trick/gimmick thing.
And I didn't like the move :) The back and forth was aggravating, and didn't seem to serve much of a purpose except to confuse the viewer.
And a very tidy ending. And very sloppy work from the abductors, having an open meeting in a diner.
lol yea I agree... another thing that was ridiculous was the lady at the benefit event (wearing the black wig) pouring the powder "roofie" substance into the cop lady's glass of water in front of what looked like 300 people lol. Most of them looked like they were focused on whoever was speaking at the time, but still.... looked way too blatant
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no problem here. she pours the roofie into another glass before going to the table, then switches glasses there by pretending to take the wrong seat.
shareI agree with both criticisms:
-The unobserved prison visit scene
-the lady at the benefit event (wearing the black wig) pouring the powder "roofie" substance into the cop lady's glass of water in front of what looked like 300 people lol. Most of them looked like they were focused on whoever was speaking at the time, but still.... looked way too blatant
This was SO ridiculous...
The most ridiculous thing by far was the 'car chase' where this stupid woman
could easily shoot Reynolds, but instead always shoots at the lights or engine...It doesn't make any sense.
The one that screamed at me, when the dad comes back out the pie shop. Why wouldn't he check footprints in the snow?
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How about leaving the laptop open with the camera and mic on? No one thought to double check to make sure their convo wasn't being recorded?
shareOr when the father stays overnight in the motel with the trailer load of trees-- the next morning he comes out of the room and sees the trees removed and dumped out along the road at periodic intervals. Instead of regathering them back into the trailer ($100 per tree?), he somehow deduces that this is a puzzle-- a trail to follow to find..........! {no spoilers here}.
When he comes back and does not find his dawter,I looked for footprints on the snow but found none. That's where I knew this movie is going to be stupid. There's no way there could be no footprints on the snow if she had been abducted or she leaving the car. GRRRRR. Dayum.
sharelol. true. or at one point at least check the surveillance material from said prison visitation room. hmm, or check the visitors list. don't you have to show legit ID when visiting prisoners?
shareYeah - there were a few holes, but, as entertainment, it's pretty good anyway. From watching ID channel, we have learned that the Police frequently suspect next-of-kin instead of thinking outside the box, in real life, resulting in time wasted.
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The film made me sooooo *beep* pissed. Not because of the whole child obduction thingy (sure it did ) but because everyone was ''acting'' sooooo *beep* stupid.
Daughter has full blown stockholm syndrom and the police woman didn't notice she get drugged?
Showed herself in the chat and leave the windows open so the other end could see and hear everything.
Car chase, christmas tree ''puzzle'' and on and on.
Acting was solid tho except the older daughter. I remember now she played the girl in Jack Reacher that got one Punch Killed. Was solid in that movie but really bad in this one.
Jesus *beep* christ.
So true. Am so mad at myself for wasting time watching it. The timeline of events just went any which way and I had to figure out who did what at what time. So annoying. Even the car chase he could have simply slowed to a stop in front of the cop car about to whiz by in the opposite direction. Instead look at what he did?! Stockholm syndrome of the captive tick, Christmas tree puzzle tick etc. Even strange he never once thought the captive would have men guarding her, I mean its not like he thought his daughter lifted all those trees and did all that and went to stand at an isolated spot. Jeezuz! And the so sloooow pace of the movie in general. Aaaarrrhh! Waste of my effing time!
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