The movie's beautiful and haunting opening theme, "Prince's Day".
"With or Without You" and "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" by U2.
Ending Fatigue: Just when you thought it was all over once Gaerity and the Dolphin go up in flames, it turns out that Gaerity had planted a bomb in Kate and Lizzy's car. Dove then has to race to the concert once the concert is over and then had to enter the car to disable the bomb while trying not to hit the brakes.
Genius Bonus: If you know a lot about bombs, chemical reactions, or even just knowledge of the IRA, this movie becomes a lot more fun.
The film is about the attempts to stop a Mad Bomber in Boston. 19 years later, on April 15, 2013, a bomb attack killed three people and injured hundreds at the finish line of the Boston Marathon.
Even harsher: one of the bombing sites in the film is Copley Square. Where the Marathon's finish line is located.
Maybe Jimmy Dove didn't get blown away, but Michael Faraday was.
Magnificent Bastard: Ryan Gaerity is a brilliant bomb designer and terrorist who has made it his life's mission to pay Jimmy Dove back for thwarting a scheme decades ago—which resulted in Gaerity's imprisonment and the death of his sister. Escaping prison in the present by manipulating his cellmate and turning a toilet into a bomb, Gaerity tracks down Dove and begins picking off the man's bomb squad team with ingeniously strategic explosives, predicting their moves every step of the way. A genuinely affable, humorous fellow who dances to Irish tunes and collects toys he admires, Gaerity successfully kills off several of Dove's friends and the man's uncle before leaving a bomb to take out his family as well, with Gaerity's final moments being spent admiring his greatest explosive art ever concocted, even as it consumes him in its flames.
Questionable Casting: Tommy Lee Jones, a man who couldn't be more Texan if he tried, plays an IRA bomber from Northern Ireland.
Unintentional Period Piece: The film definitely showcases its Nineties, pre-9/11 (and also pre-Boston Marathon bombing) roots, a moment in which Americans had some romanticism for the Irish Republican Army and "the cause" and an ex-IRA bomber (even one that admitted to have been a foolish kid who was horrified and became The Atoner after his first actual bombing went horribly wrong) was acceptable hero material.
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