Noticing absurd levels of security, he gets chatting to one of the merch vendors who confides in him that the FBI have somehow deduced that the bloody serial killer "The Butcher" will be at the concert. The FBI will be questioning every male who matches the description as they leave. Not as ridiculous a task as it sounds when almost the entire audience is teenage girls.
No good will come of this: Cooper is "The Butcher"
Can you have a comedy serial killer thriller without it being slapstick/satirical? I can't think of any others offhand really but M. Night Shyamalan goes there and it works.
It's preposterous. As soon as Cooper finds out he's looking everywhere for an escape route and gets away with astounding feats of blagging and sneakiness to find one without tipping off Riley.
I was thinking it wouldn't be able to sustain this momentum but at just the right moment halfway it takes a left turn that made me sit up and pay attention.
Really good fun this is made by Josh Hartnett's winning performance as an artful manipulator. Don't get me wrong: it relies on ridiculous levels of preparedness/skill/blaggery on Cooper's part that doesn't stand up to any scrutiny but it's fun while he's doing it.
The only really irksome thing is it does "serial killer has OCD" again for little good reason.
8/10 this surprised me with how entertaining I found it.