| 1 | * CultClassic: Many movie car and chase film enthusiasts have this one on their top lists. |
| 2 | * EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory: The scenes with the snake catcher and faith healer, and the (UK-release-only) hitchhiker scene, are very easily read as symbolic. |
| 3 | * GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Flopped in the US in its original release, then became a big hit in Europe, which prompted Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox to give it an American re-release. |
| 4 | * MemeticMutation: {{Vanity license plate}}s reading "OA-5599" (the plate number on Kowalski's Challenger) have become quite a popular item among car enthusiasts. White Challengers weren't available for purchase by the time of the film, either, but this color got a pretty hefty demand as a result. |
| 5 | * {{Narm}}: The flashback with Kowalski and the surfer girl. It was probably intended to give some more backstory to Kowalski, but it comes off as MoodWhiplash in the middle of a gritty car chase movie. |
| 6 | * SpecialEffectsFailure: The Challenger turns into a 1967 Chevy Camaro at the end. This is becase Chrysler required the cars be returned after filming. |
| 7 | * UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The 1997 remake including many references to the Ruby Ridge and Waco sieges (the DJ now being a libertarian shock jock with a Gadsden flag in his studio, Kowalski being confused with a RightWingMilitiaFanatic partly due to said shock jock's support and partly due to being a Gulf War veteran, and the leading FBI agent involved in the case even being implied to wanting some sort of retribution for the agency following those incidents via his pursuit of Kowalski) manages to somehow date this version even more than the original's post-Woodstock early [[TheSeventies '70s]] setting. |
| 8 | * TheWoobie: The flashbacks show that Kowalski's had kind of a rotten life (and the remake adds a "ReturningWarVet" detail as well, especially because it was done pretty shortly after the First Gulf War). Crosses into JerkassWoobie depending on how you feel about him. |
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