!! For the film:
* HomegrownHero: The US President gets blown up during a visit to Salamanca, yet the other leads are an American bodyguard, an American newscaster, and American tourist and some Spanish cop respectively.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/ZoeSaldana plays the reporter in the opening chapter [[spoiler: who is killed in the blast]]. She would be more prominent in [[Film/{{Avatar}} her next film with Sigourney Weaver.]]