Taking Lives (2004)
3/10
Insulting to the viewer....
7 May 2006
Warning: Spoilers
I resent being treated like an idiot by the director/writer.

1. An FBI agent with a minor caliber handgun? Not likely. An agent may whine and moan, but he/she carries a standard weapon.

2. An obvious and proved potential victim/witness is allowed to stroll around, and leave town completely, with minimal police protection/surveillance? I don't think so.

3. Jolie's haircut is so irritating to her eyes that the stray strands make her eyes blink involuntarily in several scenes. Nobody in a responsible position would keep his/her hair in that condition or style.

4. The witness's protective police detail mysteriously drops from four officers inside the building to one patrol car outside the building in less than 24 hours...just as a suspect conceals himself inside the building.

5. Two officer arrive on a scene and search an apartment that may have a perpetrator inside, with plenty of pre-planning and advance notice, but there's not a single uniformed cop for perimeter control, nor a photographer or any sort of support personnel.

6. Cops and Federal agents are trained just like the military...you never do anything alone. The biggest advantage that law enforcement has over criminals is teamwork. It is absolutely unthinkable for a cop or an agent to initiate a pursuit, enter a building, or do just about anything without notifying other what he/she is doing. Cops in particular call in their status and THEN move.

7. During a pursuit, the occupant of a car is CLEARLY holding a heavy-caliber revolver pointed at the driver, but the actual weapon, as seen both before and after the pursuit, is actually a semiautomatic.

I could go on and on, but this is just a dumb and insulting movie. The actors contribute to the whole mess by mugging their way through a bunch of police and criminal stereotypes.

Not worth the two hours it take to watch.
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