Most Rewatchable Scene
The cell phone killing the judge; Nick and Clyde's first interrogation; the cellmate killing; the parking-lot bombing
In the discussion (15)
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- The opening home invasion is excluded from the rewatchable scenes.
- Nick meeting Clyde to explain the plea deal (DNA ruled inadmissible despite a witness) is called one of the most detestable scenes in a beloved movie; afterward you want Clyde to kill everyone involved.
- The lethal injection gone wrong is picked; it prompts curiosity about who attends executions, and Nick brings Leslie Bibb's character and skips his daughter's recital to watch.
- A favorite trope: something traumatic has to happen for a man to become a real father.
- Darby's abduction is 'perfectly executed', with his companion slumped on the ground; the barbed-gun reveal is when 'the movie has started'; the tetrodotoxin detail was looked up and is said to be real.
- Clyde pretends to confess to Nick without confessing; a smarter, Fincher-style movie would reveal that an hour later instead of immediately.
- The judge scene delivers the title line, 'Your honor, I'm a law-abiding citizen', followed by insults to the judge that are called hysterical.
- In the jail cell Clyde orders a Del Frisco's steak and kills his cellmate with the bone, not the spork, as one speaker had believed after nine viewings, while 'Eminence Front' plays.
- The cellmate killing was the most confusing moment on first viewing until the tunnels are revealed; a flashback to ten years of preparation would have been welcome.
- The cell phone that blows up the judge is an all-timer and one speaker's favorite scene: out of nowhere, right after she says a judge can do what she wants, with horror-movie shock.
- The parking-lot bombing kills Leslie Bibb's character; the hosts ask why Nick had everyone wait in the office at 6 a.m. and why the DA works the case like a detective.
- The funeral drone gun, where Jonas is shot and then finished with a rocket, and the first 80 minutes are called elite.
- The tunnel reveal and the final 'I don't make deals with murderers' confrontation end with operatic fire around Clyde as he looks at his daughter's bracelet.
- One pick: 'my most rewatchable is the cell phone easily', plus Nick and Clyde's first interrogation; the eyelid-torture scene with the mirror is an honorable mention.
- Another pick lists the cellmate, the cell phone and the parking lot, calling the whole stretch fantastic.