YMMV / Sneakers

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Is Cosmo genuinely a Visionary Villain with desire to "crash the whole damn system" as he tells Martin, or is he merely a criminal who is trying to convince Martin to join him? Is it something in between?
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: The braille edition of Playboy really does exist. (Note the date on the masthead.) If you're asking yourself what the point is, the braille version has no pictures, just the articles.
• Awesome Music: This film has one of James Horner's most unique, playful, and least James Horner-y scores, with a jazzy saxophone courtesy of Branford Marsalis.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The conversation between Redford and the NSA agents:
  Martin: You're the guys I hear breathing on the other end of my phone.
  Dick Gordon: No, that's the FBI. We're not chartered for domestic surveillance.
• Ho Yay: Martin and Cosmo's final confrontation, especially Cosmo's cries of "I don't expect just anybody to understand this, but I do expect you to understand this!", and his plaintive pleading at the end of "Don't go. Don't go." positively smacks of Cosmo's unrequited love for Martin.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Brandis offhandedly mentions that the ideal diet would be what monkeys would eat — the Paleo Diet, in other words.
• Inferred Holocaust: By the end of the movie, a national party has been rendered bankrupt by the main cast. The potential political catastrophe this would generate is glossed over, as is the motivation that this would give the incumbent 1992 administration to track them down, regardless of NSA deals. They might just take the PR disaster that would come from everything blowing up at that point. Oops.
• One-Scene Wonder: Abbott, The Comically Serious (and easily exasperated) NSA spy, only shows up at the very end, but is one of the most memorable parts of the movie. His Fair Cop subordinate Mary counts as well, due to her reaction to Carl flirting with her.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Between the Mafia missing the Cold War, Why We Are Bummed Communism Fell sentiment of field agents, dial-up Internet, flip phones, and NSA introductions, this is clearly set in early 90s. The political posters of George Bush the elder are pretty much unnecessary.

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