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There's a 2008 [[Foreign Remake|Hong Kong]] [[R Emake]] called Connected, directed by Benny Chan. It, too, is worth checking out.
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* [[Action Survivor]]: Ryan and Jessica. The former for managing to run, drive and dive across L.A. and live, the latter for {{spoiler|killing a man with ''Biology!'', choking another, and saving her family in the process.}}
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* [[Oh Crap]]: The look on Ryan's face when the oil trucker slams into Ryan's stolen security car is ''priceless''.
* [[Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping]]: Jason Statham's native British accent fades in and out during his dialogue throughout the movie.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: [[Jason Statham]] as Ethan, the chief villain{{spoiler|actually the [[Dragon
* [[Precision F
* [[Product Placement]]: Well, the whole plot revolves around a cell phone, whose brand can be clearly seen in one or another scene.
* [[Recycled Script]]: Had ''[[Phone Booth]]'' not spent 40 years in [[Development Hell]] (and two and a half years on the shelf after being completed), this film probably would have never happened.
* [[Retirony]]: It's Mooney's last day on the job, and he {{spoiler|lives through the end! [[Subverted Trope]], ahoy!}}
** Also {{spoiler|subverted in that despite his age he still knocks the stuffing out of one of the criminals.}}
* [[Ripped
* [[Running Gag]]: Everyone keeps on calling Mooney's post career business a beauty salon. The final time ends in the [[Precision F
* [[Spiritual Successor]]: To ''[[Phone Booth (Film)|Phone Booth]]'', also written by [[Larry Cohen]]. That film's intentionally limited setting and claustrophobia was inverted by this film's wide-ranging action and motion.
* [[Shout Out]]: The [[Lord of the Rings]] backpack a nod to the Lord of the Rings movies also released by New Line Cinema.
* [[This Is for Emphasis, Bitch]]: The thug that {{spoiler|Jessica kills}} manages to do nothing but choke up until his last moments when he looks up and chokes out, "... bitch".
* [[Title Drop]]: The name of the cellphone store Ryan "robs" is named Cellular.
* [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?]]: Jessica's son is named Ricky Martin. She explains he's ''not'' named after the singer.
* [[Willing Suspension of Disbelief]]: We're just going to pretend that a middle school biology teacher is capable of taking a phone smashed to pieces with a sledgehammer and repairing it into working order using no tools but her bare hands. It makes the movie so much easier.
** In all fairness, a sledgehammer is a very poor choice of tool for destroying wires. And she was clearly lucky to get anyone ''at all''.
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