Trap

Stupidity: Cooper dug an underground tunnel from his house to a neighbour's house? And no one in his family noticed him hauling away tons of dirt over the course of probably years? Or wondered what he was doing spending hours by himself under the house?

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Stupidity: Despite knowing how smart and resourceful Cooper is, the SWAT team leaves him alone and unsupervised in the police truck at the very end, which allows him to pick the locks on his handcuffs with the bicycle spoke he had concealed up his shirt sleeve.

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Stupidity: There is no security team on earth that would allow a major pop star to walk around in the hallways of an arena without being by her side at all times, not to mention allowing her to be alone in a room with a stranger she just met that night.

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Stupidity: There is no way that the FBI/SWAT team would allow a serial killer that they are taking into custody to not only stop and straighten his daughter's bicycle, but also allow said daughter to run up and hug him. This isn't some white-collar criminal being taken away on tax evasion charges.

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Stupidity: The behaviour of Lady Raven and Cooper in the bathroom scene does not make any sense. They both reached an obvious point of no return the moment she stole his phone, and he violently chases her. Cooper is never going to bounce back from his actions in the eye of his daughter, but he gives the singer about three and a half minutes of time (on screen, supposedly way longer) to do the most counter-intuitive actions possible, something she couldn't know she would be allowed to do, since obviously a beast of a firefighter like the maniac she is dealing with could, should, would have kicked that flimsy door open in no time. Nor could Cooper know that she wasn't just going to call the police on him right away after breaking or throwing away his phone. Which was all she needed to do.

Sammo

Plot hole: The movie establishes that the FBI has a list of suspects thanks to security camera footage from the area where the victims were found. "A red headed man, two African Americans above average height, a white haired man." Then, the zinger; "a man in his 30s with a tattoo of a rabbit or an animal on his right arm", which of course is our guy Josh Hartnett. We see the tattoo, and it's a little doodle of a sheep, about a couple square inches big, below his wrist. That doesn't really make sense; if they have security footage with that level of detail, one wonders how could the rest be so vague. The next entry mentions "a male with a scar on his jaw", which is even more absurd. Either the security cameras picked those details up along with the suspect's full appearance and mugshot, or they just can't know with such certainty (if the suspect was masked or concealed in any way, then they would know for sure it was the killer and wouldn't be chasing people with wildly different appearances).

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Trivia: Near the beginning of the movie, as the SWAT vehicles are approaching, a billboard is visible in the background advertising the movie "The Watchers", which was directed by M. Night Shyamalan's daughter, Ishana.

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