Wow. Just saw this on cable last night and can anyone tell me why they would spend 30 million on a movie and not have a proper firearms consultant???
I can usually overlook the '9 shot' revolver or the glock model 9 that is made out ceramics but this flick had so many half baked and incorrect gun references, I was reminded how little hollywood knows or cares about getting things close to reality.
Things left me scratching my head:
1. A Mini 14 was selected as the weapon of choice for a "5.56 submachine gun that could shoot like a rifle". And this takes place in Italy where I'm sure crappy Rugers are everywhere.
2. The female assassin requests a 'silencer' but George Clooney in his brilliance says he can't get one of those but he can get a 'suppressor' which will only reduce the sound signature and will knock off some of the range because the bullets go a little slower. Just like COD! YEah, it's that kind of movie.
3. In his hotel room with no tools other than a hammer, George takes some gears from a tranny, a steel pipe and 5 washers and somehow makes 8 fully lathed baffles and anodized black housing that threads together pefectly like an out of the box gemtech.
3. He drills the bullets and puts a drop of mercury fulminate in each. Yeah this is real dark ops.
I could go on but you get the point. Obivously Hollywood gets it wrong a bunch of the time-- I just thought that maybe they could consult with one or two people who actually have fired a real weapon to give the script a once over and pick out the turds.
Otherwise it was an ok flick. George is so dreamy.
I can usually overlook the '9 shot' revolver or the glock model 9 that is made out ceramics but this flick had so many half baked and incorrect gun references, I was reminded how little hollywood knows or cares about getting things close to reality.
Things left me scratching my head:
1. A Mini 14 was selected as the weapon of choice for a "5.56 submachine gun that could shoot like a rifle". And this takes place in Italy where I'm sure crappy Rugers are everywhere.
2. The female assassin requests a 'silencer' but George Clooney in his brilliance says he can't get one of those but he can get a 'suppressor' which will only reduce the sound signature and will knock off some of the range because the bullets go a little slower. Just like COD! YEah, it's that kind of movie.
3. In his hotel room with no tools other than a hammer, George takes some gears from a tranny, a steel pipe and 5 washers and somehow makes 8 fully lathed baffles and anodized black housing that threads together pefectly like an out of the box gemtech.
3. He drills the bullets and puts a drop of mercury fulminate in each. Yeah this is real dark ops.
I could go on but you get the point. Obivously Hollywood gets it wrong a bunch of the time-- I just thought that maybe they could consult with one or two people who actually have fired a real weapon to give the script a once over and pick out the turds.
Otherwise it was an ok flick. George is so dreamy.
