2. Bonus points to the attempt by the filmmakers to give the two leads fairly well-developed backstories. That can only help.
3. Whether you realize it or not, a lot of movies follow the trope of "the ending is the same as the beginning, only different." Textbook example here. It's the best way to clearly show how the main character has grown. Same situation, different choices.
4. A simple premise - woman is ordered by an unseen villain to kill the man she's meeting on a first date - isn't necessarily the same thing as a plausible premise.
5. It's an obvious point, yes, but still effective: if you're in a public place and think someone is threatening you with a smartphone, take a look around. Everyone is on the phone! Everyone is suspect.
6. Pretty sure that wasn't the Blackhaws logo on that Chicago hockey puck gift. Could the producers not get permission?
7. We were unfamiliar with Meghann Fahy and Brandon Sklenar. Impressed.
8. It's a Hollywood thriller rule that if you have a scene set in a room with a lot of glass that's multiple stories off the ground, that glass is going to break and someone's taking a swan dive.
9. Can totally see a swanky (the hostess is such a shamelessly unpleasant snob) sky rise restaurant like this called "Palate." Second choice must have been "Taste." We couldn't help but wonder how much they were charging for that duck salad.
10. In the real world, even an understanding, nice guy would have run out of patience with his loony date's constant distraction and absence from their table. No way he sticks around. Way too may red flags, no matter how low cut that top might be.
11. We're not entirely clear how the villains learned enough about this first date to insert themselves into the proceedings. Seems like they picked her because she'd be a good patsy, so then did they somehow manipulate the couple's dating app?
12. Only in movies does poison come in sleek little glass vials.
13. The biggest problem is the third act. The villain seems pretty smart and has thought of everything... except for the quality of the henchman hired to hold the heroine's family hostage. That guy is a total amateur and his stupidity is the only reason there's a happy ending. He does his job with any level of professionalism and the movie's over. That choice totally undermines those last few moments of conflict - just as things should be reaching a fever pitch, the tension totally fizzles. The plot is cutting corners and bending logic to help our resourceful and determined heroine, who really up to that moment hadn't needed that kind of help.
