| 1 | * CompleteMonster: [[KosherNostra Mickey Cohen]] is an utterly psychotic mobster whose brutality terrifies even other hardened mobsters. Cohen opens by having a friendly emissary from the Chicago mob executed by being torn apart between two trucks, before throwing a group who are late in their protection money in their building, locking them inside and burning them with the building. A building he'd had women brought to in order to be hooked on drugs and turned out as prostitutes. He furiously executes an underling with [[CruelAndUnusualDeath a power drill]] due to the man [[YouHaveFailedMe failing him]] and when his girlfriend opts to leave him, Cohen sends one of his men to throw acid in her face. |
| 2 | * GeniusBonus: Mickey refers to Grace as Creator/ClaudeRains when she starts to [[Film/TheInvisibleMan1933 suddenly be gone for long periods of time]], due to being with Wooters. |
| 3 | * HarsherInHindsight: The scene in the trailer where gangsters fire upon people in a movie theater while emerging from the screen became this after the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. This even prompted a reshoot for the film and pushing its release date back several months. |
| 4 | * HilariousInHindsight: |
| 5 | ** [[Creator/JoshBrolin Thanos]] recruits [[Creator/AnthonyMackie Falcon]] and [[Creator/MichaelPena Luis]] instead of making them disappear [[Film/AvengersInfinityWar with a single fingersnap.]] |
| 6 | ** This will not be the last time Creator/RyanGosling and Creator/EmmaStone [[Film/LaLaLand would fall in love in the City of Angels]] but this time with songs around instead of being between bullets and violence. |
| 7 | ** Creator/JoshBrolin and Creator/SeanPenn being antagonistic in nature and based in a real life event again as in ''Film/{{Milk}}''; but with their roles reversed (Brolin as the hero and Penn as the villain), set in another well known Californian city and one ending in a tragic shooting and the other in a spectacular NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. |
| 8 | * OvershadowedByControversy: Even with the reshot scenes, the film as whole was deemed to be so violent that it was still hard to forget the parallel with Aurora. |
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