The Lovely Bones (2009, directed by Peter Jackson)

- the bad guy dug sort of an underground bunker he used to trap and kill Susie.  He drew a sketch of this bunker and I think the figures said it was six feet deep and six feet long and I'm guessing six feet wide.  (But in the movie the bunker looks much bigger than that and in practical terms, it would have to be.)  So even if we took at a minimum the bunker was six by six by six it would take him longer than one night to dig it and then 'furnish' it.  He did it in December so the cornfield where he dug it was bare.  The corn was not growing yet.  It was an open field.  And this cornfield was in the middle of a suburb, not out in a rural area.  And it's next to the school and we see that many people pass through the field.  So no one saw a guy digging a giant hole?  And where did he put the dirt that he dug up?  There was no mound of dirt around.  I guess he could've put it in his truck but his truck would not be able to fit all of it.  He could've dumped it somewhere and made multiple trips with his truck.  But the thing is, after he committed the murder, he then filled in the bunker.  Where did he get the dirt to fill in the bunker?

- when the bad guy brought the safe to dispose of in the sinkhole, he and that other guy spend 5 minutes turning the safe on its ends to get it to the sinkhole.  Why didn't he just park his truck closer to the sinkhole?  But going back a bit, how did the bad guy get the safe into his truck in the first place all by himself?  Going back even more, how did he get it up the stairs out of his basement by himself?

- at the end of the movie Susie possesses the body of that other girl.  If Susie could possess a physical body, why didn't she possess a body right after she died and then write down the name of the bad guy (she was his neighbour and did know is name afterall) or give the police some other obvious clue or lead so that he could be caught much faster?  It's better than letting your family go through all that turmoil and also you could go to heaven faster.

I wouldn't pay money to watch this movie.  Good thing I didn't.

Hanna (2011, directed by Joe Wright)

- the main flaw in this movie was already addressed in the movie.  Eric trains Hanna for 15 years or so to assassinate a woman but Hanna doesn't have a sure-fire way of verifying the identity of that woman.  Granted Hanna asked her, Marissa (the target), a few questions.  However, as we saw, that wasn't good enough.  Hanna killed the wrong woman.

- to raise a kid in isolation for 15 years and then expect her to get captured then taken to a secret location, perform an assassination, escape, and then make it to Berlin is ridiculous.  And this kid, even though she's skilled in hunting and escape & evasion, she hasn't seen a light and a lightswitch, a television, or an airplane before in her life.  When she broke into her "grandmother's" house, she broke the window, reached in and unturned the latch.  How did she know to do this?

- why didn't Eric pick up the gun from the fight in the subway station?  He could've used it later on.  Also regarding firearms... Eric trains Hanna to use a pistol while in the arctic.  But just because you become good at one type of pistol doesn't mean you'll be automatically good at every type of pistol you come across.  Each pistol type has different characteristics (different barrel lengths, different mechanics inside, different trigger pulls) and even ammunition of the same calibre can have different characteristics (different bullet weight, powder grains). 

It was an OK movie.  I still wouldn't pay to watch it though.

Salt (2010, directed by Phillip Noyce)

- I don't know the details of the President of the United States' underground bunker and nuclear weapons control room but I hope in real life that if the nuclear control room is locked down that you cannot get into it by shooting away a part of the wall with a handheld rifle and get to the door's control panel buttons to open the door.  They made the glass observation window bulletproof (why do they have a glass observation window anyways?) but they didn't make the wall bulletproof.  The government contractors should've made the whole control room out of the glass.

- Further, the bunker's door itself, once it was closed, the SWAT team only needed a portable welder and less than 10 minutes to get it open.  They should need a barrage of artillery to get that door open but they didn't.  There must be bank vaults that have tougher doors than that.  You would think that the President's personal safety and the nuclear weapons control room would have a better door.

It was an OK action movie however I'm glad I didin't pay money to watch it.