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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
** The movie's beautiful and haunting opening theme, [[https://youtu.be/8eivCCe11UQ "Prince's Day"]].
** "With or Without You" and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" by Music/{{U2}}.
* EndingFatigue: [[spoiler: Just when you thought it was all over once Gaerity and the ''Dolphin'' go up in flames, it turns out that Gaerity had planted a bomb in Kate and Lizzy's car. Dove then has to race to the concert once the concert is over and then had to enter the car to disable the bomb while trying not to hit the brakes.]]
* GeniusBonus: If you know a lot about bombs, chemical reactions, or even just knowledge of [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles the IRA]], this movie becomes a lot more fun.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** The film is about the attempts to stop a MadBomber in Boston. 19 years later, on April 15, 2013, a bomb attack killed three people and injured hundreds at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
*** Even harsher: one of the bombing sites in the film is Copley Square. Where the Marathon's finish line is located.
** Maybe Jimmy Dove didn't get ''blown away'', but [[Film/ArlingtonRoad Michael Faraday]] was.
* MagnificentBastard: [[IrishExplosivesExpert Ryan Gaerity]] is a brilliant bomb designer and [[WesternTerrorists terrorist]] who has made it his life's mission to pay Jimmy Dove back for thwarting a scheme decades ago--which resulted in Gaerity's imprisonment and the death of his sister. Escaping prison in the present by manipulating his cellmate and turning a toilet into a bomb, Gaerity tracks down Dove and begins picking off the man's bomb squad team with ingeniously strategic explosives, predicting their moves every step of the way. A [[AffablyEvil genuinely affable]], [[LaughablyEvil humorous]] fellow who dances to Irish tunes and collects toys he admires, Gaerity successfully kills off several of Dove's friends and the man's uncle before leaving a bomb to take out his family as well, with Gaerity's final moments being spent admiring his greatest explosive art ever concocted, even as it consumes him in its flames.
* QuestionableCasting: Tommy Lee Jones, a man who couldn't be more Texan if he tried, plays an IRA bomber from Northern Ireland.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The film definitely showcases its Nineties, pre-9/11 (and also pre-Boston Marathon bombing) roots, a moment in which Americans had some romanticism for [[UsefulNotes/TheTroubles the Irish Republican Army]] and "the cause" and an ex-IRA bomber (even one that admitted to have been a foolish kid who was horrified and became TheAtoner after his first actual bombing went horribly wrong) was acceptable hero material.
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