Most Rewatchable Scene
Car explosion and ensuing deaths; basement raid and shootout
In the discussion (13)
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- The opening computer-hacking graphics are praised as riveting and compared with Fight Club’s credits, while explicitly not chosen as the most rewatchable scene.
- The negotiation over Hathaway’s release is nominated for his Chicago accent and defiant bargaining, including “This isn’t a negotiation. I just made it one.”
- The Korean restaurant sequence is where the film takes off: Lien challenges Hathaway’s prison mindset, and his philosophy recalls Thief.
- The restaurant fight benefits from a space sized for close combat, surveillance-camera setup, and Hathaway’s Ghostman login.
- Finding the transmitter by moving a phone around the plants is nominated.
- The basement raid is praised for its tunnel to the pier, hidden explosives, gunfight sound and movement; Kassar becomes a formidable threat once he moves with a gun.
- The car explosion that kills Lien’s brother is the favored scene for one participant, intensified by the subsequent deaths of Barrett and Jessup.
- Dropping a car from a parking garage through the server company’s roof is praised as an unusually inventive break-in.
- The phone confrontation with the hacker is nominated for the “glorified carder” insult and Hathaway’s leverage over the stolen money.
- The final gun-and-knife battle amid a Jakarta procession is nominated, while improvised magazine armor and oblivious bystanders strain belief.
- The basement raid and shootout is the other final choice; Kassar’s concern for his own crew gives the villains distinctive detail.
- Barrett and Dawai pressuring financial official Gary is an additional nomination, especially her threats to trigger an investigation and news coverage.
- Hathaway in the reactor core is nominated for its astonishing visual setting.