While strikingly shot and directed, this film (by Kubrick, I now) is incredibly dumb:
1. Why fly (to Boston?) instead of taking a train or leave by car or bus, moreover with the issue with the suitcase being too big and full of money?
2. Why Hayden didn't plan to have a big suitcase ready if he intended to fly? Didn't he know he wouldn't be able to carry it on? As a matter of fact, Hayden is miscast as a mastermind (he's better fitted to play a hooligan (see Asphalt Jungle))
3. Hayden does the job and seems unconcerned the guards would return and confront him. And why the clown mask?
4. Why shoot the horse? The wrestling fight seemed to be more productive at the end
5. Everybody dead in the shootout
6. Incredibly silly wrestling fight (the fighter conveniently loses his shirt)
7. Annoying wife of Elishah Cook, Jr., who's extremely stupid
8. Confusing back and forth with repeated, tiring shots
9. Music
10. Add-on narration
Review of The Killing
