Let me preface this review with that I've been really enjoying the series so far. I had my concerns before I started watching it, but I think overall the whole crew has done a great job capturing the essence of the original series of movies. Up to now, that is.
I don't know, I just don't seem able to get my pretty little head wrapped around the relentlessly stupid image of not just one, but two separate incidents of a woman running down the middle of a street while a car is chasing them, obviously intending to run them down. Now on both sides of these streets these women are fleeing down, are green spaces, lined and/or strewn with trees they could be running through instead -- an escape route of natural obstacles a car couldn't follow them through, but... Both women are so desperately fearing for their lives that they stay in the middle of a street where they are easy targets for the car trying to run them down? Why? Because women are just that scatter-brained and stupid about their survival? Give me a frakking break! Heck, the second victim even took the time to take her shoes off before starting her run. Takes the time to keep looking back at car bearing down on her. But doesn't even once consider diving into the trees right beside her, trees the car couldn't follow her through. Arrgghhh.
Sorry, but it's really hard to buy into a story line so lamely interpreted.. This is the kind of lazy absence of common sense writing I would expect from that ridiculous remake of Hawaii 5-0 -- and the reason why I can't bear to watch it, despite it's cast. I'm not adverse to having my truth stretched by you (as in the second car happens to flip right over top of and misses...) but at least put some thought and effort into it. Make me want to believe you. Don't insult my intelligence with this level of lameness.
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