A Vegas Con

Rating: 2/10 (3 May 2015)

This is a movie I saw once, back in the theatres in 1997 when it was released, I hated it, had a strong opinion on it and just never thought I would ever see again. Thanks to the great podcast, How Did This Get Made?, reviewing this movie, I broke that last promise. (It's always best to watch the movie they cover in order to follow their hilarious commentary on the feature.) Anyhoo, there are just too many things both wrong and boring about this movie, but suffice to say, my 18-year complaint was the enormous continuity errors involving the climactic battle in Las Vegas:
1: As the plane is crashing down onto Las Vegas Blvd, it passes the Stratosphere and immediately crashes into the Hard Rock neon giant guitarwhich is 5 miles away.
2. Following that, they are back on the strip and crashes into a casino that hasn't been there in just about a year in 1997: The Sands.
3. Once the convicts exit the crash site, they steal vehicles and within seconds, they're on the old stripwhich is 5 miles away.
4. Somehow once on the old strip, they manage to enter the airport tunnelthat's not just 5 miles away, it somehow expands three times its actual length.
5. And...then they're magically back on the old strip upon leaving said tunnel from 5 miles away.
This movie really isn't worth reviewing, but getting Vegas wrong in movies and TV gets me cranky. And for those of you who say: Well, not everyone's been there, so not everyone would know. Well, I say: I have never been to New York City, but I do know I can't walk from Central Park and within 3 seconds I'm in Long Island, and then take a left and end up at the Statue of Liberty and then jog a bit to Queens and turn around to be on Staten Island.
To really screw up Las Vegas like that is just pure laziness and an insult to moviegoers. Oh, and really the rest of the movie sucked. So skip it!