Don't read this if you haven't seen it!

Rating: Null/10 (10 April 2006)

I've read lots of the reviews submitted so I'm not going to attempt another.
I'm still not happy with all the loose ends. If you've seen it tell me about a few of these.
1. How did they know about Plummer's past/the safety deposit box in the first place? Are we supposed to imagine some connection with the old (Jewish?) robber in the van when they picked up Clive a week later? How can such an important scene setter be glossed over?
2. What are the practicalities of living with a (presumably) open sewer for a week and why wouldn't other occupants of the building figure something was on the nose?
3. What was the point of the last (lunch) meeting with the Mayor? Did Denzel give him the big diamond? Why would you get the mayor to get involved with a war crimes archive? If the purpose is to finally expose Plummer, why not the police, FBI etc? If the mayor didn't get the diamond, who did?
4. If there was some (family) connection with the old robber and the diamond, why didn't the old guy get it back from Owen - he did seem to want it when they picked Owen up in the van. I'd have been a tad pi**ed off to have been told it was in good hands or whatever Owen's response was having been through all that.
5. Why did Owen do it all anyway? 'Because I can?' seems a bit silly. I know it's a movie, but anything could have happened - he may not have got Denzel as the smart case officer for a start - so why all the big risk of a major heist/hostage scene in the middle of Manhattan's financial district. Sure, he got the diamonds, but the movie wasn't about the diamonds - it was about Plummer, wasn't it?