The protagonist must hack a computer with no recognizable OS but whose monitor displays text in a GIANT FONT.
Category: Thrillers
Crisis Therapy
Troubled marriages are often repaired in movieland by crisis, bravery, and mutual devotion to a child or children.
Airplane Holes Expel Bad Guys
Any high altitude airplane thriller is incomplete without a hole being ripped in the side of the plane. Invariably, the hero is able to hold onto something whereas the bad guy is sucked out of the hole.
Old Factories Never Die
Abandoned factories are a favorite setting for climactic confrontations. Strangely, the electricity bill is still being paid and conveyor belts are always operative, moving towards a ghastly and destructive terminus (which is always avoided by the hero).
Knots Easy To Untie
More often than not, someone who is tied with hands behind the back or behind a chair will manage to cut or untie the rope. Usually this happens at the last second, but not too late.
Bomb Defused By Cutting Wire
Although logic would suggest that panicked heroes would occasionally clip the wrong wire, in the movies they always get it right with 00:01 seconds remaining.
Tracing the Caller
Script writers would have us believe that it still takes thirty seconds to trace the origin of a call. This may have been true in 1970, but in an era of digital phones the caller “meta data” is always recorded instantly – it’s just a matter of getting access to the phone company’s data.