The pawns in chess have a characteristic. They are weak at first, but any pawn that can be promoted to one's own after reaching the opponent's bottom line may have the effect of controlling the situation. The movie basically tells the truth: the gang boss Yuri arranged for Charlie to set up a set, which involved Allen and Barnes; Barnes threatened to manipulate Derek to rob and blame Nick; Derek manipulated two fellow robbers. …… Everyone is scheming to play their own chess game, but in the end they are completely disrupted by a little pawn, Nick, who no one pays attention to or cares about.
In terms of the plot, I feel that the director's performance is cryptic, and there are some places that I don't really understand. The FBI and the police department are two lines. Nick’s eldest brother told Jeff the FBI informant, and Barnes told Derek the police informant. Is Alan an FBI informant or a police informant? His connector Who the hell is it? It feels like Barnes is more likely.
In addition, some commented that Nick's brother was a bad policeman, on the grounds that there should be the name of the person who hijacked Nick's wife in the hard drive, but Nico did not reveal it; and the kidnapper can calmly go to the hospital to kill the offender. The hard disk is mainly the list of bribery and the amount. There may not be the name of the hijacker. Even if there is a name, the person may not be caught immediately. Nick’s brother said that there is no news about this person, which is difficult to represent that he and the hijacker are colluding . In addition, judging from a series of behaviors of the kidnapper, he is a cruel, thoughtful, and powerful underworld element. Killing the informant is not necessarily a difficult task.
So based on the above judgment, I feel that Nick's brother is more like a police internal affairs officer who monitors bad police. The basis was a conversation he had with Barnes and the man who kidnapped Nick’s wife at the side of the hospital bed said that "many people are going to jail because of the hard drive"; including Nick’s brother told Jeff that there was important material evidence in the restaurant.
If the two points about Ellen and Nick's brother are understood, the doubts of this film will basically be solved. Unfortunately, the clues are limited, the expression is cryptic, and there is no strong enough evidence to support which inference is definitely correct.
As for the other small details, it is not difficult to understand. For example, Barnes does not want too many people to know, and it is also convenient to kill Derek, so let Derek go alone; for example, Derek made up his mind to blackmail Barnes. So he called a helper, in order to prevent Barnes from grasping his actions, he deliberately did not follow the time provided by Barnes, but acted in advance. There are many small details in the film, such as the name of Bad Police Will appearing on the green bribery list and so on.
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