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A couple of good action set pieces (the motorcycle into the helicopter was inspired), I like Henriksen in just about anything so it was fun watching him overplay the villain, and it was actually kind of cool to see the bad guys get so much accomplished. I mean, as you mentioned, when was the last time you got to see the bad guy sort of win in terms of accomplishing his goals? He breaks his friend out (briefly), kills the court, manages a standoff with the National Guard, and kills the girl.
Bosworth is physically okay for the part, and not any worse that Dolph Lundgren would have been, but the one liners are roundly terrible, the story is pretty silly and overly complicated at times, and the movie came out at a time when action movies had a bit more brutal violence quotient that sometimes makes them hard to enjoy. I like violence, mind you, but chopping off the bikers fingers and giving a smoldering corpse a cigar before lighting him on fire is closer to Bad Boys 2 than my personal ideal of Die Hard. Another 48 Hrs falls into this realm for me too.
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