1. The police are idiots and/or insane. Opening fire on a speeding vehicle not knowing who's inside or why they were speeding. Opening fire on a suspect who is clearly not armed and who they may need to take in on questioning to find the kidnapped child who's life is in danger. Spotty detective work and clearly incompetent.
2. No evidence against Ethan other than hearsay and a flimsy story from his ex. Which wouldn't hold up in court anyway as her child was kidnapped and her previous child was killed. She could be blaming her ex for his murder. And the wife obviously doesn't care for him either way, since when they got hit she didn't even call his name or seem too concerned about him getting hit.
3. Issuing a warrant for the guys arrest, not saying he may be linked to the origami killer, but that he IS the killer based on this flimsy evidence.
4. Bad acting. The kids are especially horrible conveying no emotion, but the main adults actors are pretty mediocre in their own right. It may be technical limitations but their performances come across as stilted and wooden. I'd blame this on the animation, facial and body, and as I said technical limitation but their voice acting is sometimes subpar. It doesn't help that the dialogue and overall writing is bad. Lack of direction can also be blamed.
5. Why would the characters keep the evidence of what happened that could be crucial to the investigation? It's an open case this should be in police custody. Why is the writing so lazy to have the characters not wanting to give information until their lives are in jeopardy at that exact moment when the detective is there? Did he pay them? Even then, that's nonsensical why they would give out information when they know a kid's life was in danger, or even why they should give out information to him after he saved their lives or helped them?
6. If the killer did indeed send letters to the victims fathers, has noone reported this fact? The police seem completely unaware of it. Wouldn't there be enough of pattern there to trace it? Fingerprints, nothing? Did all the dads reach as far as Ethan and were killed off? Unlikely, but none of them reported this? See #1.
7. Idiotic red herrings. Why would he wake up with origami models? Drowning bodies reference was for said red herring and nothing more.
8. The characters aren't people. They are stereotyped cliched dolls. Both in looks, characterisation and performance. These are also some of the worst criminals imaginable and would likely be caught within a day if not for #1 again. Yeah sure, I'll kill a police officer in broad daylight who came to investigate me at my place of business. Noone will suspect a thing or follow up on it, those damn Crackers...
9. Instant Love. It's annoying in movies, it's annoying in this as well.
10. None of the main characters has any common sense to use an umbrella or raincoat. But I suppose it's to symbolic.....symbolic of the idiotic things that happens in this game. It also works against it, enforcing the idea of the characters not as real people, but as dolls.
