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  • Say what you want about Hazar, but his outfit (sunglasses, leather jacket) is pretty awesome.
  • Morris falling out of Air Force One with absolutely serene expression, especially contrasted with the panicking Secret Service agents a few moments earlier.
  • Herbert's Awesome by Analysis Establishing Character Moment while munching on a sandwich and casually saying the only thing they can do is kill whoever has the president and bring him home. Although it's dampened a bit by the the reveal he's a mole.
  • Morris shooting two of Hazar's bodyguards in an impressively short amount of time when they threaten him.
  • The scene of crashing planes. F-22s crash all around Oskari like falling stars, Air Force One comes down on fire, it's belly scratches the forest, breaking trees and setting them on fire, leaving stray parts falling behind it, moving forward like the unstoppable behemoth it is and passing over Oskari's head before disappearing further away. It's like a small Apocalypse Wow.
  • Oskari repeating the speech his grandpa made earlier about having to become a man and jumping right off a dozen-metres-high cliff to deliver a Big Damn Heroes and catch a helicopter.
  • Oskari's father killing a bear on his thirteenth birthday in the backstory.
  • The entire refrigator scene, from the moment Oskari jumps to the moment they land in the lake, is a long, fantastic awesome sequence.
  • Air Force One showdown. Moore finally gets his President Action on.
    • Big Game is the only PG-13 movie to let Samuel L. Jackson say "motherfucker".
  • Exploding Air Force One, vaporising the entire lake along with it.
  • Oskari finally managing to draw a bow properly and shooting Morris in slow-motion, causing his death. While flying an ejected Air Force One seat, surfing on Air Force One explosion.
  • Oskari and Moore appearing on the same hill Oskari started from, only this time, victorious.
  • The shot of Oskari and Moore standing on the hill while dozens of Chinooks fly towards the camera from behind them.
  • Herbert's impressive Make It Look Like an Accident murder of his co-conspirator the Vice President to cover his own tracks.

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