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• Accidental Aesop: A movie character, no matter how cool they seem, can be wrong and you should always view their philosophy with a critical eye. Much focus in the movie is given to the fact that Wilee is a superior biker for eschewing brakes and always weaving through oncoming traffic instead of stopping, but then he fails to do this partway through the movie and gets slammed by a cab because he unknowingly enters a busy one way street. Meanwhile, his companion Vanessa manages to avoid the same fate by simply braking before entering said street.
• Awesome Music: The Raconteurs' Salute Your Solution plays as Wilee and Vanessa escape Monday and the NYPD at the impound lot.
• Fridge Logic: Given that Mr. Leung and Sister Chen are apparently "business" associates, why doesn't he simply call her to let her know that payment has been made, instead of insisting that the ticket be hand-delivered before the deadline? (Answer: Because then there wouldn't be a movie.) Also, how does Mr. Lin know about the transaction before it even happens?
  • For Mr. Leung calling Sister Chan, considering the ticket is for something that constitutes as Human Trafficking, they may have devised the system in order to avoid the possibility of getting caught if their phonelines were tapped (using the ticket makes a lot more sense than risking using any electronic communications, because if law enforcement have the phonelines tapped, a single call or text message could be used as evidence of a crime committed. Essentially, it's similar to the idea presented in the John Wick franchise. In those films, the criminal underworld use paper records and outdated computers, so that it there is a file on someone, no one would be able to make a simple copy and walk out with it like they could with a more modern computer and with a thumb drive). Essentially, the ticket is more of a secure means of communication than simply calling or texting for that matter.
• Memetic Mutation: The "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got in this situation" meme isn't actually from any one movie, but a frankensteining together of numerous movie openings people still to this day are trying to piece together. But the idea of "Baba O'Riley" playing in the background appears to originate from the opening of this one.
• Romantic Plot Tumor: Wilee and Vanessa's relationship drama is generally considered the least interesting part of the film, but takes up a significant portion of the runtime.
• Spiritual Successor: To Duel, where the driver/rider of a relatively small vehicle has to outmaneuver an assailant using a much bigger one.
  • Also can be seen as a spiritual successor to the 1986 film Quicksilver with Kevin Bacon, which involves a grand finale car chase where a bicycle courier is being chased by a car.