Laughably ridiculous
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — In the Line of Fire
ThereWillBeBeer — 15 years ago(August 15, 2010 07:28 AM)
Well made but so preposterous. A guy invades a woman's house, kills her and her roommate, gets away clean with no cops on his trail. Later he kills 2 duck hunters in broad daylight, with his homemade plastic gun, again, with no worries about consequences. Just a couple examples. Very stupid, very disappointing film.
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Randy-144 — 14 years ago(August 13, 2011 06:18 PM)
Another glaring example is the rooftop chase. Only Frank (Clint) and his partner Al are chasing Mitch. So one of them didn't have time to call it in so that the whole neighborhood was crawling with law enforcement?
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estcst-3 — 14 years ago(September 24, 2011 11:47 AM)
Daylight only matters if there are people there to witness it. He only needed to evade capture for a few weeks before it wouldn't matter if they knew he did it or not. Considering that he disguised himself for different occasions, seemed to be constantly moving and his fingerprints were classified I doubt this would be hard to pull off.
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viktor_habbohotel — 14 years ago(February 19, 2012 05:30 PM)
Wow, a guy wasnt ammediately arrested when he murdered 4 people in different locations and in different days, this movie sucks because of it.
Now that is what I think is ridicolous. The problem with modern movies arent they are ridicilous, but that their critics nitpick them to death.
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Elephantlips — 11 years ago(April 29, 2014 08:53 PM)
There are some fairly laughable parts in the movie, honestly.
"Frank, you just witnessed your partner (that you convinced to stay) get shot in the head. Even though he was going through psychological counseling, we let him stay on active duty.
Nevertheless, take a bus to a local tavern immediately and come back tomorrow, bright and early." -
tenantennae — 9 years ago(April 28, 2016 08:56 PM)
"Day of the Jackass" would be a more fitting title, as the "master" assassin compromises himself left and right, evading justice for the better part of two hours only because Skeletor is too out of shape and busy trying to eat the flesh of a woman half his age to do his job.
Not only laughably ridiculous in its own right, but a good example of all that was laughably ridiculous about American movies in the early 90s. This crap was nominated for Academy Awards: Best supporting actor, John Malkovich, and, I sh!t you not, Best WRITING!