The Package Movie Download

6 / 10

Lots of strange pieces…but what does it all add up to?!
“The Package” is a very exciting film, though I must also admit it’s not exactly the most logical! My advice is that if you see, just turn off that nagging part of your brain that sees plot holes…otherwise it might just take you out of the movie.

When the story begins, some Soviet and American officials and military are having some meeting in the countryside near Berlin. During this meeting, a group of soldiers are keeping an eye on the perimeter when some ‘backpackers’ arrive…and are soon arrested. However, soon the backpackers are inexplicably almost immediately released and the pair are really assassins who kill several of the military men as they’re leaving this meeting. Obviously there is some sort of conspiracy going on here. But this is just the first of MANY conspiracies and many folks being something other than they appear to be….and the plot goes from Germany to Chicago of all places.

So how do the main characters fit into all this? Well, I could try to explain it but suffice to say that three people see there’s some sort of conspiracy and the conspiracy takes itself to Chicago…to somehow disrupt a historic peace treaty between the US and USSR designed at complete nuclear disarmament.

While Gene Hackman and the rest do a fine job and the acting is never a problem, the plot doesn’t make a lot of sense. Dozens (or more) folks are behind this conspiracy and they have infiltrated the military, police and God knows what else. They also KNOW who the three are who are trying to stop them, whereas the three know who almost none of these people are…and yet the three are going to stop this plot?! This doesn’t make sense…nor does it make sense that they never try to involve the FBI, CIA or even the local chapter of the Boy Scouts! It’s just three ill-informed heroes against a weird murderous cabal!! Now THAT is a serious plot problem in an otherwise enjoyable film!Read More