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* TakingTheBullet: Barnes backstory of how he saved the president's life.

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* TakingTheBullet: Barnes Barnes' backstory of how he saved the president's life.

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* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler: Taylor]] might have gotten away with it all...if Barnes just hadn't happened to be [[spoiler: watching a TV camera feed with Taylor posing as a tourist while on the phone with Barnes claiming to be chasing a suspect.]]

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* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler: Taylor]] might have gotten away with it all...if Barnes just hadn't happened to be [[spoiler: watching [[spoiler:watching a TV camera feed with Taylor posing as a tourist while on the phone with Barnes claiming to be chasing a suspect.]]]]
* CreatorsCultureCarryover:
** It's set in Spain, yet the Secret Service are seen seizing cars from the locals, as well as chasing, arresting and ''shooting'' them, even cops. Plenty of wars have started over much less.
** Never mind that it is an international summit, but it is presided over by the city's mayor (with no member of the Spanish national government apparently present), the President of the United States is the absolute star, and the public waves a zillion Spanish flags at him and only Spanish flags, something much more reminiscent of {{Eagleland}} (If they want to honor the POTUS and Spanish-American relations, shouldn't they be Spanish ''and'' American flags? And what about the other foreign representatives there? Does nobody care about them?). It's painfully evident that the writer had an American president giving a speech in the US in mind and only painted a light "but in Spain" coat over it.



* CrowdPanic: Happens after the assassination attack.
* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler: Verónica.]]

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* CrowdPanic: Happens The crowds panic after the assassination attack.
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* TheDragon: [[spoiler: Kent Taylor.]]

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* WeAllLiveInAmerica:
** It's set in Spain, yet the Secret Service are seen seizing cars from the locals, as well as chasing, arresting and ''shooting'' them, even cops. Plenty of wars have started over much less.
** Never mind that it is an international summit, but it is presided over by the city's mayor (with no member of the Spanish national government apparently present), the President of the United States is the absolute star, and the public waves a zillion Spanish flags at him and only Spanish flags, something much more reminiscent of {{Eagleland}} (If they want to honor the POTUS and Spanish-American relations, shouldn't they be Spanish ''and'' American flags? And what about the other foreign representatives there? Does nobody care about them?). It's painfully evident that the writer had an American president giving a speech in the US in mind and only painted a light "but in Spain" coat over it.


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* ArtisticLicenseGeography: Unless the city utilizes some 4-dimensional enlargement technology, there’s no way all the characters would end up in each other’s way so often.

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Unless the city utilizes some 4-dimensional enlargement technology, there’s no way all the characters would end up in each other’s way so often.often.
** At one point, it is said the Secret Service are looking for five people out of six million. The population of Salamanca in 2008 was 160,000.
** Beirut is described as being in Darfur. Beirut is the capital of Lebanon and Darfur is in Sudan.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: [[spoiler: Taylor]] might have gotten away with it all...if Barnes just hadn't happened to be [[spoiler: watching a TV camera feed with Taylor posing as a tourist while on the phone with Barnes claiming to be chasing a suspect.]]
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* AdultFear: Little Anna has her mother and Withaker's character almost die of fear.
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* RedShirtReporter: The reporter early on, getting killed by the bomb in the podium exploding.
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* DeadlineNews: The reporter at the start is right at the scene when the president is shot and frantically reports the event and the sound of a distant explosion right before [[RedShirtReporter being killed by the bomb in the podium exploding]].

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* DeadlineNews: The reporter at the start is right at the scene when the president is shot and frantically reports the event and the sound of a distant explosion right before [[RedShirtReporter being killed by the bomb in the podium exploding]].exploding.
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In 2020 a TV-series remake of the film was put into production.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The secret service members chasing Enrique are shown catching up to him at the underpass - [[spoiler: and apparently shooting him]] - in Louis' viewpoint of events, but are nowhere to be seen in the climax which takes place entirely in that area and occurs almost immediately after, even though [[spoiler: the President is thus found in a very visible accident not minutes later.]]

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