Question: During the fight scene between Margot and Elsa, there's a moment where Margot rolls over a counter and falls to the floor. The shot where she lands on the floor looks very unnatural, as though Margot was green-screened into it. She doesn't seem to blend into the background properly, but also casts an accurate reflection on the metal beside her. Did they paint out a crash mat she landed on or something?
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Question: In the final scene where Hawk is on the moon, how did he land? The know in the film he says the moon's gravity will take him once halfway there, but how would he manoeuvre to land?
Question: I don't feel it warrants a plot hole because of technicalities (we never explicitly see him in two places at the same time), but don't you think the movie is very misleading about the identity of the killer? Every time we see a kill, the culprit is accounted for in a bit of a sneaky way. Mabel = he is chilling in a car with the others being very close. Murders at the party = he is drunk and morose, but also should be plotting the most elaborate murder. Also, he has no motive at all for how he acts (kills Happy, who is the only one who shows any respect to the killer), and, in fact, he is the one who tells everyone to run away from the party, saving a lot of lives. Just a case of "he's crazy," I guess? Normally, you'd show them having some sort of split personality or something like that to explain a bit of this erratic behaviour.
Question: Why did Bennett with Arius's men wait until Kirby left before ambushing Matrix at his home instead of killing him as well? I get that killing a Major General would have caused a lot of unwanted attention, but only Kirby knew about Matrix's background and the new IDs on his team, so his death actually would have benefited them.
Question: At the climax of the movie, several days after the initial bust, they discover the glass is Blacklight shards and accordingly use one to discover the Target List. But why didn't processing the crime scene (using, among other things, standard UV lights) do that already? Add to that the fact that since the '70s, this method of secret communication has become common knowledge. Why wasn't a blacklight used to search the initial crime scene as standard procedure?
Question: I understand Randall Raines puts off stealing the Shelby GT500 "Eleanor" because of his fear of a jinx and previous bad experiences. But why doesn't he just assign that car to the others? Surely one out of Otto, Donny, Sway, or Sphinx must have successfully stolen it in the past and can do so now on his behalf, and even Kip's guys might be better at it in this regard.
Question: Charles and Caroline are shown living alone in their house in Iowa. Although now in 1890 and presuming 20-year-old Carrie is on her own somewhere (college, married, etc.), Grace would only be 13 and should still be living with them but is not seen and never mentioned, as if she never existed. All other daughters were living with them at 13, so what happened to Grace?
Question: When Ricky's told about Lucy's scheme, what does he say in Spanish?
Question: Why don't they even think of pretending the victim just drunkenly tripped in the kitchen while getting a sandwich, and his sister-in-law reflexively tried to catch him, unfortunately holding a knife? He thought he would live a few more minutes, so he could have backed up the story. Instead, everybody (victim and police) just takes it as given that the stabbing will reveal their relationship.
Question: In the opening scene, right before the crime is discovered, what did one of the nurses say to the housekeeper in Spanish?