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• Cliché Storm: The lead protagonist is a grizzled cop with a Dark and Troubled Past. The main bad guy constantly makes jokes and puns about his work. The bombs are constantly stopped with only a second or two to spare. The key to stopping the villain is a woman who will only speak with the main character on the grounds that she's too afraid to trust anyone else, albeit with a subversion in the end, since she betrays the cops, then kills Swann and takes over as the main villain.
• Complete Monster: Alex Swan is a charming Irish terrorist and bomb maker who sees himself as an "artist". For years, Swan has supplied bombs to terrorists, including an incident where he set off a bomb that killed countless innocents, police, and his own terrorist allies. Arriving in San Francisco with his trio of followers, Swan coldly guns down a cop who discovers them before his follower Claire is arrested. Needing Claire's bracelet for his "masterpiece", Swan holds the entire city hostage, bombing several populated areas and promising that if Claire is not released he'll continue "until every man woman and child in this city is either dead or in mourning". Swan also nearly kills a squad of cops with a trap and tries to steal the bracelet and abandon Claire in police custody. Swan's masterpiece is a chemical bomb which would kill everyone in the city, with a backup strong enough to wipe out three square miles.
• Fight Scene Failure: Most of the fight scenes aren't actually too bad by the standards of such a cheap movie, but they're let down by the very poor editing, to the extent where the climatic fight scene makes it look like Glass shoots Nettles dead at one point.
• Heartwarming Moments: Earlier in the film, Nettles tells Glass that he hasn’t been back to the graves of his wife and son since their funeral, believing that the grief would cause him to shoot himself. At the end, after the bombs are defused and the pair walk away, Glass tells Nettles to “talk to ‘em, man. They’ll listen. Love never dies, and neither do they. Love is eternal… and that’s a long time.
• Stock Footage Failure: The film's usage of stock footage is so incredibly inept that that even Ed Wood would likely be shaking his head. Just to name the most glaring example, the scene of Swann's death via car bomb appears to change from some docks to outside an office block, then back to the docks, and finally to a large, grassy park.
  • It's so bad it even creates a Plot Hole in one scene: Swann sets a briefcase bomb down in a bar. We then see stock footage of it exploding accompanied by a bunch of secondary explosions (?) which seemingly destroy the whole city block. Apparently the bar was located between two nitroglycerin factories?

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