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• Complete Monster: The Big Bad, Johnny Wong. He has absolutely no qualms in blowing away innocent bystanders who are unfortunate enough to get in his way, as shown during the very first shootout of the movie. And he only gets worse from there, culminating in the hospital sequence where he kills patients for trying to escape the hospital, takes a room hostage, and fires on the SWAT team even as they try to evacuate the babies of the hospital's maternity ward. Johnny's most despicable act is firing his Uzi into a crowd of patients standing between him and Alan, and then killing his Dragon Mad Dog when he blasts the gun out of his hands. The following quote by Johnny during the hospital sequence says it all.
  Johnny Wong: There is no room for failure now. The innocent must die!
• Crowning Moment of Awesome: Many to speak of, most can be found in the hospital scene such as the infamous "2m42s" scene.
• Ending Fatigue: The final hospital shootout lasts for half an hour.
  • Not that that's a bad thing. It's the most famous sequence for a reason, after all.
• Moral Event Horizon: Johnny Wong crossed the line when he kills the patients at the hospital.
• So Cool It's Awesome: Quite possibly one of John Woo's best Hong Kong movies ever made, the other ones being A Better Tomorrow 1 and 2 and The Killer.
• The Woobie: Tony Leung Chiu-Wai is good at playing the Woobie, and his character Alan is no exception.