The Locksmith (I) (2023)
2/10
Wooden acting. Plot holes the size of Mack trivks
19 February 2023
Warning: Spoilers
Most of the dialogue was forced and stilted. You felt like the actors were being made to say their lines at gunpoint. The entire story was 100% predictable with no unusual plot, twists whatsoever. The holes in the plot were humongous. 1 Why would two vice officers pull over a guy on a traffic stop? 2 no person in their right mind would not make a copy of the flash drive. 3 no law enforcement officer of any caliber would ever place sensitive evidentiary information in an unlocked desk drawer. It would go to an evidence room, or a safe as an absolute minimum. 4 every time Kate Bosworth's character is going to a crime scene. She fails to call into her superior, who she already knows, is not corrupt and could be trusted with the information. She could easily call while she was driving, which would provide her with back up and also provide her superior with background if something were to happen to her. 5 Ryan Phillipe's character delivers a line in the locksmith shop, which is totally too late when they should've been communicating before that. 6 when one of the corrupt police officers hold the child hostage he is completely exposed his entire body, so that he could easily be shot and save the child. 7 call girl just happens to be an expert marksman in the middle of the night at quite a distance under a lot of stress. I'm pretty sure there's a lot of guys in the army which couldn't be that accurate with a handgun.

There are other smaller plot errors, but my brain is tired.
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