The flex list ranks body counts and consequences; Death Wish is fifth, with a joke about its total body count across the series.
The Equalizer is fourth: Denzel's character wipes out a Russian mob over three movies.
Taken is third; its hero describes his own particular set of skills instead of having someone else explain them, a self-promoter compared with Trautman in Rambo.
First Blood is second: Rambo was not bothering anyone, and in an alternate universe he runs an Italian restaurant.
John Wick is first: after the dog and car, he kills 439 people in seven months, one of the worst mistakes in the history of movie organized crime.
Rebel Ridge gets a shout-out as another that missed the list.
Clyde could have just killed Darby, the judge and everyone else instead of spending ten years digging tunnels.
A defense: killing anonymously would not make a public point against the justice system.
Waiting years let Darby keep living; the distinction between justice and revenge (Batman Begins) explains Clyde's scattershot method.
The other weak link is Clyde moving in and out of an elaborate, manicured isolation cell unnoticed, while also working a janitorial job under the name Nomos.
Earlier aside: the film 'really might be Apex Mountain' for the long con, with ten years of planning; this is hedged.
Butler's apex is placed in the mid-2000s coming out of 300, and Foxx's after Ray and Collateral.
Leslie Bibb's apex is Talladega Nights, with White Lotus mentioned.
For Philadelphia law movies Philadelphia still holds it; for vigilante movies it is Death Wish; for 'Eminence Front' it is probably still the first episode of Entourage.
Clyde opening the door without the peephole; criminals randomly targeting a secret CIA killer's family; Nick shaking Darby's hand on camera; no camera in Clyde's cell; Clyde not noticing the warehouse break-in; a DA and a cop handling bombs; the uninventive final briefcase bomb; beating Clyde back to his cell; a prisoner running an underground base
Moved up from the picks: a master planner opens the door at night to strangers without looking through the peephole.
Two random criminals happened to attack the family of a secret CIA killer; a smarter version would make the crime itself revenge.
Nick shaking Darby's hand in front of reporters is the dumbest thing he does.
Nobody puts a camera in Clyde's isolation cell once things start exploding.
Clyde would have noticed the warehouse break-in, and a DA and a cop would not know how to handle bombs.
The final crime, a briefcase bomb under a table with no camera on it, is the least inventive; a purpose beyond carnage or a Bodyguard-style camera twist would have been better.
How Nick and the cops reach Clyde's cell before he does is unclear.
The biggest nit: a prisoner running a climate-controlled, wired underground base like Bruce Wayne makes no sense.
The blanket-over-pillow decoy is weak next to a favorite Eastwood prison-escape film with molded fake heads, which CR is said to love and which might be done on the show.
There are no Philly sports references even though the Phillies were, a speaker thinks, in the 2009 World Series; a villain could have mentioned a Phillies game or Chase Utley.
Viola Davis is wasted as the mayor in about three scenes, used as a legitimizer, as in one scene in Out of Sight.
The mayor swears Nick in as the new DA while scolding him for all the damage.
Nick is called the worst DA ever for shaking a rapist's hand on television; promoting him is like the Jaguars hiring Urban Meyer and then making him GM.
One participant did not prepare a take because he did not know he would be in that chair.
Take: Sarah deserved to die; the hosts joke she was headed for a relationship with Nick.
Hottest take: Gerard Butler should have been James Bond instead of Daniel Craig 20 years ago, at a similar career point, in Casino Royale or Skyfall.
The take is called entertaining 'total bullshit' and a 'dazzling putrid take' given Craig's success; without Bond, Butler might not have made Den of Thieves, and Daniel Craig could have been in this film.
Objections: Butler's brand is brutality while Bond needs suaveness, and his Scottish delivery; he does fit the Sean Connery man's-man Bond, but the objector concludes it is terrible.
Casting what-ifs opens with 'we mentioned the Butler Fox thing'.
Foxx was first set to play Clyde and Butler the lawyer until Butler pushed to flip, as the hosts said earlier.
The hosts say Frank Darabont was supposed to direct and left over creative differences, joking he could not do another movie with tunnels to jail cells; they say he later sued AMC over The Walking Dead.
