This is a TV movie about a big time robbery of a mall. It insults our intelligence on just about every level. First off, Dean Cain does not look nearly old enough to have a family with children of the age shown here. But, how did this youngish, goateed fellow get to be a police lieutenant? He looks only about old enough to be out of the academy for about a year or so!
Stumbling upon a robbery of the mall (where his wife works, of course) on Christmas Eve (see "Diehard"), Cain goes into pursuit mode. Well, I have news for these ignorant Hollywood script writers: forced opening of the outer doors of an elevator while it is in motion will result in immediate stopping of the elevator itself. There are also no convenient clean chains hanging to allow a person to shimmy down to the elevator cab. Oh, and our hero just happens to have a multipurpose tool in his pocket, with which he merely turns a screw on the elevator threshold and releases the doors. NOT!
With this amount of foolishness to show just how improbable this movie is, I declined to be assaulted by it any further. Avoid this turkey!
Stumbling upon a robbery of the mall (where his wife works, of course) on Christmas Eve (see "Diehard"), Cain goes into pursuit mode. Well, I have news for these ignorant Hollywood script writers: forced opening of the outer doors of an elevator while it is in motion will result in immediate stopping of the elevator itself. There are also no convenient clean chains hanging to allow a person to shimmy down to the elevator cab. Oh, and our hero just happens to have a multipurpose tool in his pocket, with which he merely turns a screw on the elevator threshold and releases the doors. NOT!
With this amount of foolishness to show just how improbable this movie is, I declined to be assaulted by it any further. Avoid this turkey!