Who knows? Remember, he was kind of an idiot. That’s the whole point.
IIRC we see a gloved hand drop the gun after the shot is taken and the shooter runs away from the camera, identify hidden. I could be wrong though.
But the bullet had first hit a window pane which looked thick-ish. That could have slowed it down enough. Perhaps.
ETA: Oh! Ninja’d by Kedikat 3 hours ago.
They show the bullet impacted in the notebook, and it’s a straight-on hit, not a glancing blow.
I mean, glass is also a famously non-resilient material, but they could have established that it was special glass or something, I suppose.
Actually, that might have been a better fake out: we hear a gun shot and the window spider-webs, obscuring our (and the shooter’s) view of Helen falling. At the end of the flashback setting up Helen’s real story, we find out that the bullet never penetrated the window, because Bron had it made out of some super-hard glass from the space program but, being an idiot, he forgot that it would stop a bullet when he tried to shoot Helen. Include a scene earlier in the film where he’s bragging on the house and mentions the space-ship windows to set it up, and skip the notebook cliche entirely.
You are right, I hope next time they make that bit better.
This would have been really funny and right on with his character.
That’s perfect right there. Everything else could have been exactly the same – Helen falls down in shock, and Blanc gives her the hot sauce, etc.
Did the invitation puzzles seem hard, or were they as easy as Benoit said (though obviously he never saw them)?
I just watched this having no idea there was two of them. It wasn’t until the umpteenth time I checked IMDB because it wasn’t lining up with who I was seeing that I figured out what was going on.
As soon as they got the invitations I thought it was going to be an updated version of And Then There Were None. Turns out it was closer to Murder on the Orient Express.
Did anyone else notice the giant Fight Club-ish Edward Norton hanging on the wall?
I’m curious what the point of all that was. I assumed it was going to play into the movie at some point. But after he showed us the override button, they really could have dropped the whole thing until the end. Was it just to create some tension?
They did them pretty quickly so it was hard to tell. I wish I had paused it when the magic eye one was on the screen. I wanted to see if I could get it before they said what it was.
But I think he was just saying that because he knew he could throw Miles off his game by not stroking his ego. He’s so used to having his ass kissed he can’t even think straight when someone takes a shot at his intelligence.
I was trying to find a picture of the box but found an online version of the puzzle. I have never, ever been able to do those slider puzzles so I can’t get past the first part.
I suppose it’s plausible that Mile’s version of the Mona Lisa was bullshit like the rest of him.
But yeah, something felt “off” about the ending to me as well. It kind of felt a bit like Benoit and Helen ultimately couldn’t outsmart Miles, so Helen just blew up his house.
Yes, it is Edward Norton photoshopping his head on Brad Pitt, something his character would do.
Blanc tells Helen to “start a fight and lose” at one point. That had to be a Fight Club reference, right?
Humor. Every time Duke’s Google Alert chimed, it triggered the protective screen.
Maybe a commentary of how we should shut out that stuff?
Haven’t seen the first one, enjoyed this one. Hubby’s only complaint was there wasn’t enough romance.
I guess I’m not seeing why that’s humorous beyond being just being a gag. In other words, there was no real connection to the movie, right? It was just a sight/sound gag. It was rubbed in our face the entire time so I assumed it would come into play in some meaningful way. I figured at some point someone or something would end up locked inside that case. For example, if someone got sick of listening to his constant alerts (which they also made sure we were aware of by pointing out that he had an alert for the word ‘movie’) and tossed his phone in the case where it could have remained for the rest of the movie.
In fact, after showing it to us so many times, I was surprised that hitting the override button during the fire almost seemed like an after thought. As soon as the lighter showed up when he burned the napkin, I figured she was going to use it to set the painting on fire. Side note: Did we have see Edward Norton smoking in the movie? Why did he even have a lighter in the first place?
Actually, when it was first introduced, my initial thought was that at some point the sprinklers would come on and it would be revealed that there was something jammed in the track preventing it from closing, similar to, a 20+ year old movie I don’t want to spoil for anyone that hasn’t seen it. (The Thomas Crown Affair)
Ooh, that’s a good catch.
I don’t think I ever notice (or at least I didn’t remember now) that one of those guys was a priest.
But if you really want to start a fight:
That’s probably why I couldn’t quite parse it. We really never got a good shot of it, but I kept going back and forth between if it wasn’t meant to be Edward Norton in a Fight Club style pose or Brad Pitt from Fight Club but not his face. At one point, I thought it could have been a Wolverine picture.
Oh, and the stoner guy, red herring? I’m glad it wasn’t him or I would have felt like they were tricking us, but I tried to mentally keep tabs on him. Once she ran into his room and he was just sitting there getting high, I figured he wasn’t our guy but I still tried to remember to keep him in mind.
I still liked him though.
What building was that?
I thought it was silly fun with a bunch of celebrity cameos, but I was slightly let down by the destructive ending.
The glass open/close “gag” was funny but was also necessary for the symbolism at the end – if the security system had been working properly, the painting would have been protected behind (presumably) fire-proof glass.
There weren’t too many clues to how far away from the characters the Mona Lisa was, but did anybody else get the sense that it was too big to be the real thing?