| 1 | * SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: While [[Music/EmersonLakeAndPalmer Keith Emerson]]'s style may seem out of place anywhere else, in this movie it works rather well. |
| 2 | * CompleteMonster: Heymar Reinhardt, alias "Wulfgar," is a terrorist who manipulates everyone around him and kills the people who help him. Even his employers don't like him, as evidenced by one of them [[EvenEvilHasStandards refusing to pay him because several children were killed by his last attack at the beginning of the movie]]. He doesn't care who his actions injure or kill, even if the victims are children. He takes a frail old woman hostage at a subway, and before that, he killed the flight attendant he was staying with after she looked in his briefcase, calmly telling her that everything was okay, before killing her offscreen. Later on, he takes more hostages, including an eight-month-old infant. The only reason that he lets the infant live is because he knows that doing so would make him seem more employable to future or potential terrorist organizations, provided he can escape his current predicament alive. |
| 3 | * EvilIsCool: Wulfgar is a monster but Rutger Hauer plays him so well and with such charisma it's hard not to enjoy him, even when he does horrible things. |
| 4 | * SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: Seeing Creator/SylvesterStallone cross-dressing while beating up criminals is pretty damn funny. It's also one of the few lighthearted moments that this film has, and it provides a stark contrast to the seriousness that is yet to come. |
| 5 | * NotSoCrazyAnymore: At the time, the idea of a foreign terrorist attack on American soil was dismissed by some critics as ludicrous. Creator/SylvesterStallone himself later noted how prescient the plot was in 1993 after the bombing of the World Trade Center, and then of course 9/11 happened as well. |
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