This movie, although good watching, has more holes than a box of cheese graters. 1) My biggest grouch is why the murderer (Bingham) is allowed to walk around the place in perfect freedom when everybody knows he killed Sonia Baker and tried to assassinate Cal and shot up a car full of people causing a major collision with another car etc. etc. ..... and yet the newspaper, who have his photo, don't put his photo on the front page of their newspaper and the police are not searching for him.
2) Why would a bag-snatcher (Deshaun) keep a meeting with a guy who's obviously into blackmail or stalking and has a gun and special killing bullets in his briefcase, surely he would have had enough street-smarts to know when not to follow through with his MO. Even his girlfriend had enough reasoning to work out the case owner was a nutter. And how was he going to sell back the briefcase without the contents anyway, surely Deshaun's method calls for the case and contents to be returned for cash?.
3) Who actually called for the killing of Sonia Baker, was it Stephen who found out she was working for PointCorp (but he was supposedly in love with her). Was it PointCorp because she had stopped supplying information (surely killing her was going over the top, just stop paying her $26,000 a month would have sufficed). Was it Bingham who took her assassination into his own hands.
4) Why was Bingham allowed to sit in the hospital corridor (without an identification label) outside the comatose Pizza Guy's room (which is guarded by a policeman who is also sat in the corridor alongside the murderer) when we see Della have to go through ID check to be allowed in to the hospital and has to wear an ID badge....... by the way, it was good of the policeman to walk up to the murderer and then speak on the cell phone that "He's coming round", which signed the death warrant for the Pizza Guy.
I could mention several more silly loopholes that make 'State of Play' what could have been a first class movie into a muddle of a thriller.
2) Why would a bag-snatcher (Deshaun) keep a meeting with a guy who's obviously into blackmail or stalking and has a gun and special killing bullets in his briefcase, surely he would have had enough street-smarts to know when not to follow through with his MO. Even his girlfriend had enough reasoning to work out the case owner was a nutter. And how was he going to sell back the briefcase without the contents anyway, surely Deshaun's method calls for the case and contents to be returned for cash?.
3) Who actually called for the killing of Sonia Baker, was it Stephen who found out she was working for PointCorp (but he was supposedly in love with her). Was it PointCorp because she had stopped supplying information (surely killing her was going over the top, just stop paying her $26,000 a month would have sufficed). Was it Bingham who took her assassination into his own hands.
4) Why was Bingham allowed to sit in the hospital corridor (without an identification label) outside the comatose Pizza Guy's room (which is guarded by a policeman who is also sat in the corridor alongside the murderer) when we see Della have to go through ID check to be allowed in to the hospital and has to wear an ID badge....... by the way, it was good of the policeman to walk up to the murderer and then speak on the cell phone that "He's coming round", which signed the death warrant for the Pizza Guy.
I could mention several more silly loopholes that make 'State of Play' what could have been a first class movie into a muddle of a thriller.