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* AwardSnub: Creator/EdwardNorton wasn't even nominated an Oscar. This is considered by many to be one of his best roles, if not his best.
* QuestionableCasting: NFL star Tony Siragusa plays a Ukrainian mobster. An Italian mobster, sure, but Ukrainian?
* SignatureScene: Monty's five minutes long ClusterFBomb rant about New York facing a mirror.
* TearJerker: The entire final sequence, particularly when Monty looks out the car window and sees the smiling faces of all the people he had ranted at hatefully before, and the very end when [[spoiler: his getaway fantasy turns out to be just that]].
* {{Wangst}}:
** Monty's rant about everyone in New York. Notably because of [[ClusterFBomb his frequent cursing]].
--->'''Monty's Reflection''': And while you're at it, ''fuck'' [[{{UsefulNotes/Jesus}} J.C.]], he got off easy! A day on the cross, a weekend in Hell, and all the hallelujahs of the legioned angels for eternity. Try seven years in fuckin' Otisville, J!
** [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools This is fully intentional]], though, since the final portion turns TheReasonYouSuckSpeech on ''himself''.
--->'''Monty''': No. No, fuck ''you'' Montgomery Brogan. [[HeelRealization You had it all, and you threw it away]], you ''dumb'' '''[[PrecisionFStrike fuck]]'''!
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