YMMV / Cowboy Bebop: Knockin' on Heaven's Door

• Awesome Music: It's Cowboy Bebop, of course it's gonna be awesome. The standouts being "Ask DNA", "What Planet is This?", "Cosmic Dare (Pretty With A Pistol),"Pushing the Sky" and the ending theme "Gotta Knock A Little Harder"
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The dogfight between Spike and some random police officers. While it does have a tenuous connection to the plot (serving to delay Spike, take out the Swordfish, and allow Faye to catch up), the actual fight itself has nothing to do with the rest of the movie, and seems to be put in there simply because the plot wouldn't allow a dogfight otherwise and it seemed wrong to not have one of the series' signature styles in the film. Seemingly lampshaded when Spike mentions that he's only being attacked because of bored police officers.
• Complete Monster: Lee Sampson is a teenage hacker addicted to video games and thrills, who has decided to try his hand at being a "real terrorist" just for fun and infamy. Allying with Vincent Volaju, Sampson uses his hacking skills to help Vincent find dispersal methods for his lethal nanovirus, and works with him to bomb a metropolitan area and unleash the virus, killing dozens and endangering hundreds more. Having such disregard for human life that he reacts to Vincent killing an innocent man with less emotion than losing at a video game, Sampson is ultimately hoping to use his skills to ensure Vincent's plan of total genocide of all life on Mars succeeds, and takes a special joy in broadcasting a haunting message for the entire planet that foretells its coming annihilation.
• Magnificent Bastard: Vincent Volaju is a stoic Super-Soldier who—due to horrible trauma and experiments performed upon him—has come to believe he is trapped in a nightmare, and seeks to escape to the "real world". Vincent conscripts others to his side through bribery and manipulation alike, never hesitating to eliminate those same allies if they endanger his plans. A very well-spoken man who often muses about the nature of Purgatory and life itself while pulling off terrorist attacks that throw Mars into a panic, Vincent's brain is matched with his brawn, as he is one of the few characters in the franchise capable of taking down Spike Spiegel. His plan to unleash a virus and wipe out all life on Mars nearly succeeding, Vincent nonetheless offers survival to a chosen few he believes have true willpower, and, even when laying dying when his plans are foiled, he accepts his death and spares the life of his former lover Electra Ovilo, earning the respect and sympathy of Spike himself in the process.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Shut up, kid! Halloween is tomorrow, now get lost!^note It's pretty common to find the scene where Ed tries trick-or-treating while searching for Lee - and, in the process, gets scared off by an old man with a shotgun - to be reposted on social media the day before Halloween.
  • "And you, you take too long to take a shit!"
  • "I love the kind of woman who can kick my ass."
• Nightmare Fuel: During the monorail fight, Vincent shoves his fingers into Spike's chest, complete with the horribly realistic sound effects, and a stomach-churning crunch when he breaks Spike's ribs. Spike can barely move or breathe from the pain.
• Realism-Induced Horror: This is what makes Lee Sampson such a terrifying villain: he's a sociopathic teenager who decides to engage in terrorism for the fun and infamy of it and sought to commit as grand a display of carnage as possible, very much reminiscent of people like the Columbine killers.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: The opening sequence is pretty well animated, which comes with the territory of Hiroyuki Okiura.