| 1 | * Sarah, Hal's girlfriend, meets a truly horrific demise at the beginning of the film. Her climbing rig malfunctions and despite Gabe's best efforts to try and save her, she plummets to her death. In fact, the opening scene is so nail-bitting and memorable, that some critics and viewers thought it overshadowed the rest of the movie, that plays more or less like a competent, yet very standard, action movie from the 1990s. |
| 2 | * Forget action movies, [[CoDragons Kynette and Delmar]] wouldn't be out of place as the villains of a SlasherMovie as the showcased atrocities they committed on-screen are PlayedForHorror compared to other DieHardOnAnX henchmen's misdeeds. [[ScaryBlackMan Kynette]] is a steely, snarling maniac who hunts Gabe through the mountain caves like [[Film/{{Scream}} Ghostface]], even wielding the same knife. [[EvilBrit Delmar]] is a sadistic brute who savagely kicks the shit out of Hal, laughing all the while and likening it to a soccer game. |
| 3 | * Travers' SanitySlippage VillainousBreakdown when he snaps over Gabe outsmarting him is quite unsettling to witness. No small talk, no quips—just the animalistic, no-holds-barred rage of a man who truly is a monster no matter what form he takes. |
| 4 | * [[NoNonsenseNemesis Kynette's casually deadpan expression]] as he machine-guns a running Brett InTheBack -- one of the most violent examples of ShooOutTheClowns ever. The complete silence except for the music doesn't helps. |
| 5 | * [[{{Sadist}} Delmar's taunting and laughing]] as he brutally tortures Hal like a soccer ball, kicking, kneeing, and footstomping him almost to death. The eerie music in the background only makes it worse. |
| 6 | * The rough cut was [[WhatCouldHaveBeen originally]] ''NC-17'' rated, [[ExecutiveMeddling before cutting down to an R rating]], mostly the revolving around the [[ViolenceIsDisturbing actions of the terrorists and their death scenes]], thus Qualen and his goons could be considered to be a KnightOfCerebus group even in comparison to other villains in DieHardOnAnX films. [[SarcasmMode Thanks to]] director Creator/RennyHarlin, who himself had already created a KnightOfCerebus in ''Film/DieHard2''. |
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