definite spoiler ahead . please do not read if you haven not see the film yet and want to be surprise . my big question why do director or producer think viewer be stupid . maybe most people just sit back and enjoy the ride . but why spend so much time and money to make a beautiful look movie like this and populate with some fairly good actor and and base on a good and classic story and if you do not care enough about the story to employ a thoughtful writer or two . anyway . this movie have too many plot hole to count and but here be the most glaring and in my opinion . why would emily leave a comfortable and hot bath to answer the phone . in such a lushly appoint apartment and it hard to believe it doesn not have an answering system or build in voice mail . and even if it doen not and there be no sign that it go to ring an annoyingly long time when emily start move to answer it . why be steven so easily dismiss a a suspect just because he be on the phone during the attack . of course he do not commit the attack the attacker be dead . his have an alibi for the time of the attack do not clear him of arrange it . if he be even consider for a moment and he wasn not a suspect for commit the attack and but for plan it . and his alibi doesn not clear him of that . steven be so careful about so many part of his perfect murder plan why would he so sloppily toss the cell phone out of his car and on his way from the poker game . if it be find ( which it never be and apparently ) the fact that it be on his return route would be pretty incriminate . there be plenty of place and like the east river and to toss something . it obvious the dead man live in a very scary neighborhood ( emily visit and it pretty dangerous look ) so be suppose to believe the killer only use one key and have one lock on his door . i live in a nice part of new york and there be four lock between the apartment and the outside world but emily be able to get into that apartment with just one key . doubtful . when steven confronts emily and it become a complication that there something at the artist loft connect him to them represent her wed ring . steven say he will go get it . why do it matter if that connection exist . there be obviously many others they can not do anything about like the negative to the photo he just show her while money that he confess to pay the artist while at least one of her friend who know about the affair . and and he supposedly a blackmailer and so wouldn not one assume he have some hidden proof . why do it matter that the ring be in the loft . surely and no matter what and steven and emily do not think theyre go to be able to pretend emily never have an affair with david . when steve hand over money in washington square park and david tell him the tape be a commemerative copy there be no guarantee ( that we have hear and at least ) that there no other copy of the tape . who would assume that be the only copy . and of course and we soon learn it wasn not . if your husband try to have you kill and and you have the proof ( the tape ) and would you confront him ( even with a gun in your pocket ) or get the heck out and go to the police . of course david be record the murder plot and when steven lay it out at his own apartment . why wouldn not he . if steven be such a good planner and why would he not shake down david to make sure he do not have a tape recorder . it would be in character not to trust him . argh . i want back the time i waste watch this thing .