You thought the baddies has a plan when they burst in crack-team fashion with techie monitoring equipments. Turns out that was nothing thing more than to just watch the kidnapped mom and her 2 children. But the major flaw was (amusing) this highly-train cracked team didn't have a plan. Their simple modus operanti was to hold the family at bay and asked the husband to figure out something. I thought they were criminal masterminds? Other obvious problems have already been mentioned. Does Mary Lyn Rajskub (Cloe/24) has to live in a dump and drive a wreck? It is disappointing to not hear Harrison Ford apologize once for firing her, then takes for granted that she will obliged to help him, not to mention putting herself directly in the sight of the baddies. I think also Rajskub is not advancing her career by simply replaying Cloe/24. Ford's children, especially the daughter are just props. It would be mildly interesting to have the daughter get a thing for one the younger more agreeable hoods. The fact that wife Madsen is an architecture and designed her own home, one with an escape plan has not been setup for the audience at all. And the entire state of Washington is so wi-fi ready also stretches our imagination. Lastly why didn't Ford wear a rain coat on this many trips to the office instead of drenching in the rain in his expensive executive suit. Natives of Seatle should know better.
Perhaps the biggest problem I have is lack of technical knowledge on display in what is being premised as movie updated for 21st century technology. The producer could have hired techie advisors to inject the right amount of technical jargons into the dialog to overcome liberal arts screen writer's lack of depth in this area. Sadly not much was done there.
On the plus side, the movie does pickup somewhat half-way through the movie and keeps pace toward the predictable finale.
Perhaps the biggest problem I have is lack of technical knowledge on display in what is being premised as movie updated for 21st century technology. The producer could have hired techie advisors to inject the right amount of technical jargons into the dialog to overcome liberal arts screen writer's lack of depth in this area. Sadly not much was done there.
On the plus side, the movie does pickup somewhat half-way through the movie and keeps pace toward the predictable finale.