Guessed the identity of the old woman at the very beginning, kind of convoluted nail polish plot line. Kind of weird for the supposed master of disguise to be wearing nail polish regardless of the profile, of the alleged disguise. Conan that hand trick only works if the other person thinks you're also French, sodium chloride boy, like do you think everyone else around you is stupid Jimmy Neutron. I appreciate that the clues were there, but most of them were just a tad bit on the nose from which we arrive to even more convoluted and convenient plot points.
At the very least this time the culprit was given away due to Ran's superhuman strength rather than any perceived notion of failing to perform femininity - I was half wondering whether Conan would pull an Ace Ventura on the audience, the "she has an Adam's apple" shouted by Ed sure seemed to point in such a direction. A bruise is not incriminating information, and having an Adams apple as a woman isn't either, considering how such a feature is present in both sexes, while not often as prominent in women. Conan sure is lucky that the culprit just admitted to being the culprit, considering how easily both of these could've been explained away by the culprit. As for the bruise the culprit could've at the very least have claimed to have injured themselves some other way, regardless of the implausibility of Conan seeing Ran's fight with the culprit in the first place. Or Conan hearing the kidnapper talking about the fight in the car, or him deducing such from the kidnapper holding their neck, considering how the conversation and action took place in a moving car; both loud and you know moving. Regardless of execution; quite the obvious plot point and on top of that quite the lazy shock value twist. No culprit, you should've doubled down after claiming shock, why are you just giving yourself away, at least make it so that Conan's deducing something instead of gambling, you can't just start with saying that the culprits a man without giving compelling deductions for that claim. Conan doesn't have time for realistic rebuttals against his claims but whatever.
Why did the guy have cornrows, what was the functionality of it all - given how minimalist Conan's designs are you'd expect for them to appreciate functionality, what other points of information can be derived from this character design choice other than, kind of weird for a white guy to have that hair style.
Gin back at it again, honestly as this point you'd question whether he is also a double agent, with his inherent demotivation regarding anything that doesn't involve Akai possibly being alive. Such a strange discrepancy for him to only question the plausibility of death in that one case, even if evidence has arisen to the contrary on other occasions regarding the deaths of other characters. That's like thrice now.
I don't appreciate the sappy Haibara and Conan content. Bye Bye big brother world woman, none of the goals of equality are exactly being achieved by giving this technology to interpol, even if it did benefit your dad over at the European parlament. Current facial recognition technology does have difficulty with recognizing people with color though so the movie does have a point there, I really liked the trick the culprit used, given how it was actually a realistic use of AI for the trick (rare are the uses which don't infringe on the rights of others), rather than them just throwing around the term. |