#monsterdon Meh, they must've ran out of money for the script writers toward the end, I guess. The bomb should've been as much of a surprise to us as to the little alien death brats. For example: In previous scenes, he gets totally into the ruse and seems to be making plans for alien kid placement per instructions. Then we think he's going to go tell the alien kids about the placement plans. But for some weird reason, he's thinking of brick walls (or his wife's boobs, which would've really distracted the kids and been easier than brick walls, probably). Then, seconds before the blast, we get an x-ray glimpse into the satchel and 💥 Or maybe the constable finds that a whole bunch of explosives are missing — after our hero was in the explosives cabinet earlier for some innocent reason. Then at the very last second, we are given enough information to put two and two together just as ... 💥💥 You don't give away the "surprise" ending in explicit detail 5 minutes before it happens.