Implausible

Rating: 4/10 (31 May 2010)

A most implausible movie. Events occur in a world in which no one seems to notice anything. (1) Opening: man lugging gas cylinder walks out of substation, drives off in police car. No one notices then - and, apparently, no one ever checks the substation. (2) Police car stops another driver. OK. Man, in civilian clothes, lugging gas cylinder, gets out and approaches. Driver politely waits. No other cars pass during this scene. (3) For the rest of the movie, no APB is ever sent out for the assassin. (4) In the seedy hotel scene, (a) desk clerk killed - no one notices; (b) two characters exchange volleys of shots for about five minutes - no police cars ever appear. (5) Tommy Lee Jones character apparently drives his pick-up from Del Rio to El Paso - about 450 miles - rather than just telephone a warning. (6) In hotel, shotgun-wielding assassin approaches PI. No one notices. And PI, knowing assassin is an assassin, politely goes with him to hotel room, where he (the PI) can quietly get shotgunned. (7) End of movie: (a) woman returns home, there's assassin, sitting in chair, Rather than turning around and running out, she apparently stays to chat (and die). (b) assassin leaves; another car hits him. No one notices. No one calls police. He talks with two boys, buys a shirt to wrap his broken arm and walks away. Apparently, bleeding men walking away from two wrecked cars is a common occurrence in this neighborhood, because, again, no one notices. Now, that's a high-crime neighborhood.