I enjoyed this movie in the theater, and I just recently watched it again on television. I enjoyed it both times, but the second time around several plot holes were evident, most of which took place in the last 20 minutes.
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The problems start at the airport where it appears that Susan is going to double cross Joe by putting a gun in his baggage and giving him a ticket to Venezuela. Before going into the airport Susan insists that he get a clover for St. Patrick's Day from a guy at the entrance, and this turns out to be a recording device that is later used to entrap Susan and Julian. Why did Susan insist that Joe get a recording device to entrap her later?
Joe narrowly escapes being caught with the gun and ticket, but does not realize it and heads out to find Susan. She is talking the the fake FBI lady, verifying that she is a bad guy. Joe does not see this, but it is obvious that they expected him to get arrested in the airport or else she would not be in a compromising position. Later, on the ferry, it is made to look as though it was planned that he would end up on the ferry the whole time so that Julian could kill him, but that does not make any sense in light of the fact that they already planned to get him arrested at the airport.
It also seems odd that it seemed planed by the US Marshals that he would get on the bus with the Japanese tourists that were all carrying the tubes, one of which would later turn out to be holding a rifle. So did the Marshals plan for Joe to run out of the airport at the last minute, just barely evading police? It seems as though they would have had to plan for him to get out of line at the last minute.
These things at the end give the whole movie a very contrived feeling. The rest of the movie seemed plausible, and it was good until the end, but the ending was a real bummer.
*****Spoilers***** *****Spoilers*****
The problems start at the airport where it appears that Susan is going to double cross Joe by putting a gun in his baggage and giving him a ticket to Venezuela. Before going into the airport Susan insists that he get a clover for St. Patrick's Day from a guy at the entrance, and this turns out to be a recording device that is later used to entrap Susan and Julian. Why did Susan insist that Joe get a recording device to entrap her later?
Joe narrowly escapes being caught with the gun and ticket, but does not realize it and heads out to find Susan. She is talking the the fake FBI lady, verifying that she is a bad guy. Joe does not see this, but it is obvious that they expected him to get arrested in the airport or else she would not be in a compromising position. Later, on the ferry, it is made to look as though it was planned that he would end up on the ferry the whole time so that Julian could kill him, but that does not make any sense in light of the fact that they already planned to get him arrested at the airport.
It also seems odd that it seemed planed by the US Marshals that he would get on the bus with the Japanese tourists that were all carrying the tubes, one of which would later turn out to be holding a rifle. So did the Marshals plan for Joe to run out of the airport at the last minute, just barely evading police? It seems as though they would have had to plan for him to get out of line at the last minute.
These things at the end give the whole movie a very contrived feeling. The rest of the movie seemed plausible, and it was good until the end, but the ending was a real bummer.