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Escape Room: Tournament of Champions (2021)
Plot Hole Central!! What have you done!
I loved the first Escape Room. It had the feel of Saw but with a focus more on puzzles then the death. Come along Escape Room 2. In writing this movie you simply had to put the main characters in some more rooms and move the story forward. They even had the plane "room" setup from the last film.. So what's the problem? After arriving at the location to find the Escape Rooms our 2 main characters are tricked into running several blocks across New York, down until the subway and onto a train car. When they get onto this train car they learn it's full of several other "champions" from previous games. Let's backup and look at them events. The 2 main characters had to arrive at building X at X o'clock. Then be tricked into running after a guy and pass countless New Yorkers, jumping over the subway gate without a ticket and not getting stopped / challenging and then ending up on this train cart. At the SAME time we've had to get all over 4 "Champions" onto the SAME train cart at the SAME time (they were not kidnapped or anything)... without any other passengers attempting to enter this SAME cart?? How on earth is that possible! At first I thought the "champions" the other champions must be planted there.. but nope.. they're meant to be real.. This is never covered in the movie we're just expected to accept that they all ended up there at the same time. Let's skip to the end. So all these games have taken place under New York. We know they got a train cart somewhere under the city but it cannot of travelled more then a few miles. So how on earth does the last room end up in the puzzle makers house!!! Why on earth would you do that and how is that physically possible? They clearly live in a large house in the middle of nowhere.. not central new york. And the main character" drops" into the daughters bedroom / cell. Despite us seeing them go down a train station, down in an elevator.. etc..
Criminal: UK (2019)
Factually Inaccurate program that gives too little
Decided to give Netflix's new show Criminal a go. After enjoying the first episode with David Tennant I divided straight into episode 2 but wished I stayed clear! The episode starts with a women being accused of giving a man with "Thallium" by way of rat poison. A clear and tasteless material that you can easily slip into someones drink without them knowing... This raised a flag for me so I paused the show and headed online and a few minutes of basic researched shows that Thallium is banned in the United Kingdom and hasn't been in rat poison since at least the 1970's / 1980's... Spoilers Ahead.. The women then admits giving the man the rat poison and said after drinking it he drops on the floor and becomes unwell.. he was found a day or two later and taken to hospital where he's undergoing treatment.. This is the next big plot hole that the research team seem to ignore. Thallium is deadly over 1g, however, usually within the first 48 hours you will only have diarrhoea. feel unwell and throw up. It's not until after the first 48 hours you will feel really unwell and be unable to move on the floor... So the man drinking the drink wouldn't have dropped to the ground... Following this Thallium poison can only be treated in the first 6 hours after it was taken... So to recap.. 1. No Thallium in rat poison in the UK 2. Takes usually a day or so to get into full affect 3. No treatment after 6 hours... This basically ruined the whole show for me.. This is basic research.. They could have easily said she put rat poison in the drink but they clearly name Thallium... On top of this the show is NOTHING like British Policing.. A HUGE HUGE interview room with fancy one way mirrors and half a police station behind it.. On top of this prohibited items are shown in the interview room such as pens and coats being allowed... a glass water jug? hmmm no.. It's always plastic so they can't attack officers with it... The show tries to get us invested in the characters but there's little time to do this on a 40 minute episode... To confuse matters more only 3 episodes were made but 12 in total across 4 countries with the others dubbed over... It's all filmed on the same set so how much more money would it have taken to simply film all 12 episodes in each language? prob not that much... The episodes should have been 1 hour and spent time building up the interviewers and the people they interviewed.