So there's a lot of dumb tech that cops in hollywood have. But reverse lasers here is one of the stupidiest. Not that it wouldn't work. Not that real cops don't do it. But doing it on a live crimescene literally lets the person know you're on to them. You can just use a camera or non vis laser.

Such cop nonsense. They've literally done nothing and they're already clapping for themselves.

> Unnamed Cop: Sir, They have him

> Lammark: What do you mean "They have him"? Who has him?

Come on.. pronoun game? Like why on earth would the cop not at least say "They have your shooter"

> Lammark: This is the profile of people we arrest, not hire.

No it isn't. Everyone knows the line between criminal and cop is drawn in invisible ink. Half the cop shows tell us about how cops have to think like criminals, pose as criminals and yet somehow we're suppose to believe they're so separate and different on a mental level? Heck half the time the cops ARE criminals and doing criminal things and doing normal things in criminal ways. We know this. We've proven this. This copaganda about cops and criminals being :huffs: "So different" is just silly.

The emotional reveal here kinda felt empty to me. I kinda think it wasn't foreshadowed well enough. There's beeen a lovely drama and crime tension building but nothing worth of that "Is that enough" line.

Honestly the ending of this movie really disproves the lie of policing. There's never an excuse to put that many bullets in a suspect who is no longer a threat. This is ironically why plea bargains are garbage. There's not there to quickly resolve cases that would take up the courts time. There's the other end of a grind stone. Overchage someone and then let them plea out to a case they might not want because you overstep and put too much risk. That's not an option that's coercion.

I think the most interesting aspect of this movie is the killer. The killer is interesting. They have a compelling background and make interesting choices. Unfortunately the movie thinks the investigators are the main focus. and they kinda aren't interesting. I mean there's good enough. It really is more of a grind and find cop movie more than a puzzle box cop movie. And that's fine. Lammark is interesting as a company man who wants to do the work but the company keeps stepping in but for all his cowtowing because he "picks his battles". He never really chooses a moment to show backbone. Something you kind of expect him to do towards the end. It kind of didn't match his character. Eleanor as the "rookie" on the case who has a unique connection to the killer could have been more interesting but while the acting was fine the writing felt like she didn't have anything to do. Until the very end of the movie when she suddenly got interesting just in time for the closing curtain. Maybe if this had been another 30-40 minutes they could have had some time to make me care about the investigators. I rooted for them but I didn't care about them.