- Sarah, Hal's girlfriend, meets a truly horrific demise at the beginning of the film. Her climbing rig malfunctions and despite Gabe's best efforts to try and save her, she plummets to her death. In fact, the opening scene is so nail-bitting and memorable, that some critics and viewers thought it overshadowed the rest of the movie, that plays more or less like a competent, yet very standard, action movie from the 1990s.
- Forget action movies, Kynette and Delmar wouldn't be out of place as the villains of a Slasher Movie as the showcased atrocities they committed on-screen are Played for Horror compared to other "Die Hard" on an X henchmen's misdeeds. Kynette is a steely, snarling maniac who hunts Gabe through the mountain caves like Ghostface, even wielding the same knife. Delmar is a sadistic brute who savagely kicks the shit out of Hal, laughing all the while and likening it to a soccer game.
- Travers' Sanity Slippage Villainous Breakdown when he snaps over Gabe outsmarting him is quite unsettling to witness. No small talk, no quips—just the animalistic, no-holds-barred rage of a man who truly is a monster no matter what form he takes.
- Kynette's casually deadpan expression as he machine-guns a running Brett In the Back — one of the most violent examples of Shoo Out the Clowns ever. The complete silence except for the music doesn't helps.
- Delmar's taunting and laughing as he brutally tortures Hal like a soccer ball, kicking, kneeing, and footstomping him almost to death. The eerie music in the background only makes it worse.
- The rough cut was originally NC-17 rated, before cutting down to an R rating, mostly the revolving around the actions of the terrorists and their death scenes, thus Qualen and his goons could be considered to be a Knight of Cerebus group even in comparison to other villains in "Die Hard" on an X films. Thanks to director Renny Harlin, who himself had already created a Knight of Cerebus in Die Hard 2.
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