I always expect a big conspiracy

Juston 2022-04-20 09:01:28

Generally speaking, the performance of this movie is flat. It is a typical American movie that saves the public at the critical moment when the unwilling little characters are a bit dazzling. Besides the editing is a bit dazzling, the plot is old-fashioned, wastes a lot of foreshadowing, and there are many places that make people angry.
For example, the stupid police don't use helicopters to send money, but spend a lot of time fighting the traffic in New York. During the period, they lost a number of vehicles and personnel. The key is a needless waste of time. During this period, I thought that the police were colluding with the robbers, deliberately creating the illusion of traffic chaos on the way, so that the huge sum of money could be taken away and turned into a robbery.
Another example is the stupid mayor who can't make any decisions. I really don't know how he became mayor. He is really interested in "hidden rules" with his high-ranking female officials. guy.
Another example is the stupid negotiator who repeatedly made mistakes in judgment, first suspecting Gabo, and then finally judging that the criminal had jumped out of the car and ran away, and was denied by everyone. It was really depressing.
Another example is the young robber in blue clothes, who was fierce on the subway. After getting the money, he was surrounded by the police on the street. He couldn’t take it out for a long time, and he was beaten to death without any resistance. The contrast is too great, is it "beneficial"?
Let’s take another example of the most stupid video man and woman. The woman is an idiot and a brainless woman. She has already seen her boyfriend being kidnapped by gangsters on the subway, and her life is hanging by a thread. Entangled in "Love me or not", the man is also an idiot. When he contacted him again, he quickly confessed to the computer in the first sentence. Such an idiot and resentment of women are really cheap and right.
Fortunately, the performance of the two protagonists is still very good, especially the robber, very eye-catching, completely controlling the overall situation, Denzel Washington is really like an honest man who has a wife and children to support, and also buys a gallon of milk to go home. Traffic dispatcher. But I still didn't make it clear, did he take bribes in the end, did he make it up to stop the gangsters, or did he actually receive money, but after recommending Japanese cars, he thought it was not a bribe?
After watching the video, what I want to ask most is what happened after that? I always look forward to a big conspiracy, what about $300 million? How to solve Gabo's bribery? (I'm still looking forward to Gabo colluding with the robbers, making money and leaving) I'm also looking forward to a serial plan, many problems haven't been solved yet, how come it's over?
As it turns out, the screenwriter is a pure and good guy, and I'm delusional and a conspiracy theorist!

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  • Walter Garber: What's her name?

    Ryder: Lavitca, she was Lithuanian... she was an ASS-model.

    Walter Garber: She asked you what?

    Ryder: You heard of hand-models, right? Advertisements?

    Walter Garber: Right.

    Ryder: She was an ass-model... she did jeans and uh you know, magazines and shit. Anyway, it was fashion week in New York and uh... I took her to Iceland.

    Walter Garber: Lavitca, Lithuanian, Ass model, Iceland, you took her to the ice...

    Ryder: So, for five-hundred bucks they'll take you on a dog-sled ride on a glacier.

    Walter Garber: Dog-sled?

    Ryder: Yeah... and you know that whole saying that if you're not the lead dog, the view never changes?

    Walter Garber: Right, otherwise you're always looking at the asshole of the dog in front of you.

    Ryder: That'll be funny in a minute when I get to that part.

    Walter Garber: It's funny now.

    Ryder: [next scene] And it's eight in the morning, we haven't been to bed yet... and we're tooling across this glacier and I got this hangover that's creeping up the back of my neck... and guess what I'm looking at?

    Walter Garber: You're obviously you're staring at... the ass of the dog in front of you.

    Ryder: You got it! So this dog... out of nowhere just lifts his hind-legs up and puts them in the, you know the harness there... and just takes a shit, while he's running on his front paws. So he's dumping and running, all at the same time... now that's multi-fucking-tasking if you ask me.

    Walter Garber: Get outta here, did it hit you?

    Ryder: Shit always hits you man.

    [next scene]

    Ryder: I didn't know it at the time, but it was profound.

    Walter Garber: Profound?

    Ryder: Yeah.

    Walter Garber: Why? Uh, you lost me.

    Ryder: Well, you know uh... when I went to prison later on, what you called. Uh, I had trouble going to the toilet... you know, a privacy thing. And I... couldn't take a shit. I was scared shitless... literally. So, you know what I thought of?

    Walter Garber: You thought of the dog.

    Ryder: That's right... I thought of that dog. If it could do what it needed to do... so could I. It saved my fucking live.

    Walter Garber: Wow, that is profound.

  • Ryder: Ok... now somebody else has to die. Two people, maybe all of us! Did you hear me?

    Walter Garber: I heard you, but you gotta understand that the circumstances they're different now for you. You gotta rethink this, you... you gotta adapt.

    Ryder: No, I gave you instructions and you know the consequences.

    Walter Garber: I mean don't you have a plan B?

    Ryder: No, plan B is enforcing plan A... and the minute you stop believing me mother fucker, that's it!