Most Rewatchable Scene
Cusack's scouting-report introduction of the inmates; stealing the second plane at the boneyard; the cons taking over the plane
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- Candidates open with the rainstorm fight in which Nick Cage kills the drunk; the whole fight makes one host mad every time because the lawyer, the guy from Miami Vice, gives terrible advice to plead guilty and it comes out as ten years. The hosts debate going not guilty unless a deal is agreed with the judge, and conclude that Cameron Poe is kind of a dumbass who should have just got in the car and later got off the plane rather than stay for his diabetic buddy and his insulin.
- Cusack's scouting report for the inmates is phenomenal; a host wishes more graphics and background had flashed up for each guy, Creed-style, six minutes long, and would have watched it forever.
- Asked, as the fight-scene expert, whether there has ever been a crouch fight scene like the bunny-back-in-the-box fight: close-quarter fights exist, like the bathroom stall in Mission Impossible or the front-seat-and-back-seat car fight in the Raid, but this is the first crouch one. — Shea Serrano
- More candidates: Cruzito trying to escape and steal the second plane, whom one host just calls Cruz; the whole boneyard sequence where the cons trap the soldiers and the plane explosion; the 'that's a rock' exchange while the plan is explained; and the plane landing on the Vegas Strip, making seven candidates.
- A clear winner is declared: Cusack doing the introduction, the scouting report. An honorable mention is floated for the long montage of letters to his daughter, the hosts repeating 'Dear Casey', enjoying her two-word letter asking whether he is ever coming home, wondering whether the wife stopped writing, and relishing the unintentional comedy of him writing calmly while mattresses go over the balcony during a prison riot.
- Asked for picks, one host goes with stealing the second plane for its unintentional comedy, propane and gas everywhere at an abandoned airfield, including Colm Meaney's car getting crashed into the tower; another goes Cusack, liking him in roles where he is a little smarter than everybody, as in Runaway Jury, and calling him one of the best parts of the movie despite seeming frustrated to be in it; a third has the cons taking over the plane.
- The takeover is admired for the needle buried in the hand to pick the handcuffs, which the hosts would like Mythbusters to test, like other movie-easy things such as lighting gasoline by tossing a cigarette; it was so windy Cusack's wig flew around all movie yet people lit things. Johnny 23 stays in character, Cage has to prove again that he is a good guy, and his accent is great.