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%%* * SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: The entire climax of the film, as Irwin and the inmates stage a revolt with an insane amount of homemade weaponry and defenses ranging from lunch trays made into riot shields, catapults made from buckets and surgical tubing, a makeshift grappling hook fired from the prison’s water cannon, and ''a full-sized, homemade trebuchet.''
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SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Courtesy of Music/JerryGoldsmith.Highlights include [[https://youtu.be/8NW2P_V9-ZY?si=QD4c58FjOsf9ynAw “September 11, 2001 - Theme from The Last Castle”]], a mournful piece that plays over the end credits, and [[https://youtu.be/BDqiKHoOYy0?si=Jku6sCJfXdO5YdHb “The Count Down/Hold Them”]], [[https://youtu.be/n1VZpVu3xRE?si=TqaIaJS1yUVynoLO “Taking Command”]], [[https://youtu.be/4ysLkvgPH0s?si=aDaL1ByFZX3q3Gvx “Battle for the Castle”]], [[https://youtu.be/iZReg-kZMEA?si=6N7CNySftGV7KC0n “Fall In”]], and [[https://youtu.be/scub5YnH704?si=qS1FeOqr6Twar7oK “The Flag]], which all underscores the climatic prison revolt.
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* CompleteMonster: [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Colonel Ed Winter]] presents himself as a reasonable, benevolent [[WardensAreEvil warden]] of the military prison he runs, but is in truth a smug and sadistic ControlFreak. Regularly using cruel manipulation and brutal abuse on the prisoners for petty fun, Winter flat out murders multiple men and frames them as "[[MakeItLookLikeAnAccident accidents]]" to avoid repercussions. Angry at his idol, Lieutenant General Eugene Irwin, for shaming his military collection, Winter dedicates himself to breaking Irwin completely by torturing and even murdering the friends the man makes in prison. When Irwin stages a near-bloodless prison uprising to overthrow Winter's harsh reign, Winter threatens to execute hundreds of prisoners just for saluting Irwin, then [[spoiler:lethally shoots Irwin InTheBack just for trying to raise a flag against Winter's wishes]]. Though claiming to care about his men and only use necessary evil when called for, Winter's facade is torn down and he's exposed for the spiteful bully he is, willing to abuse and threaten both prisoners and his own employees just for mild disrespect.
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* CriticalDissonance: Critics gave this movie 52% on Website/RottenTomatoes. Audiences were a lot more forgiving, giving it 75%.



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* WhatAnIdiot: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Winter shoots Irwin because he believes Irwin is trying to fly the American flag upside-down; if Winter had actually bothered to '''look at the flag''', he would have seen it was raised right-side up. At this point he is just that pissed off.]]
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* RetroactiveRecognition: One of the creators of WebVideo/CinemaSins appears in the film as an extra, as their Sins video for their own channel pointed out.
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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Lots of 'em.

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* CriticalDissonance: Critics gave this movie 52% on Website/RottenTomatoes. Audiences were a lot more forgiving, giving it 75%.



* WhatAnIdiot: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Winter shoots Irwin because he believes Irwin is trying to fly the American flag upside-down; if Winter had actually bothered to '''look at the flag''', he would have seen it was raised right-side up. At this point he is just that pissed off.]]

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* WhatAnIdiot: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Winter shoots Irwin because he believes Irwin is trying to fly the American flag upside-down; if Winter had actually bothered to '''look at the flag''', he would have seen it was raised right-side up. At this point he is just that pissed off.]]]]
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* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Lots of 'em.
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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler: Winter]] crosses this on-screen when he [[spoiler: orders a guard to kill Aguilar.]]
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The movie's soundtrack entirely, courtesy of JerryGoldsmith.

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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The movie's soundtrack entirely, courtesy of JerryGoldsmith.
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* WhatAnIdiot: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Winter shoots Irwin because he believes Irwin is trying to fly the American flag upside-down; if Winter had actually bothered to '''look at the flag''', he would have seen it was raised right-side up.

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* WhatAnIdiot: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Winter shoots Irwin because he believes Irwin is trying to fly the American flag upside-down; if Winter had actually bothered to '''look at the flag''', he would have seen it was raised right-side up. At this point he is just that pissed off.]]
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* SoOkayItsAverage
* WhatAnIdiot: At the end of the movie, [[spoiler:Winter shoots Irwin because he believes Irwin is trying to fly the American flag upside-down; if Winter had actually bothered to '''look at the flag''', he would have seen it was raised right-side up.

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