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Towards the end of the movie, just before he leaves the police headquarters, Danny Roman piles up a huge amount of office furniture as a barracade and ignites it with a grenade of some kind. The smoke detectors/sprinklers above the naked flames don't trigger for about three minutes. See more...

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The Negotiator (1998) - 6 corrections

Directed by F. Gary Gray, starring David Morse, John Spencer, Kevin Spacey, Ron Rifkin, Samuel L. Jackson (add more)

Genres: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

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After the marksman has a clear shot of Danny but refuses to shoot him he is asked to stand down and is presumably replaced. There is then a scene with Danny in the, now broken, window where we see 4 or 5 laser sights on his chest and one on his forehead. One of those is coming from the helicopter and one may come from the replacement shooter but where do all the others comes from and what were those marksmen doing when there was a clear shot earlier? It's stretching credibility to imagine that one marksman was replaced by four new ones in the few seconds that have passed. [When the first marksman has a shot, Danny is at a different window (two were broken by the invading policemen), and was slightly inside, meaning only one person had a clear shot. The second time, he's standing at a window further to the center of the building and is right at the edge, so more marksmen would have a line of fire.]

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Towards the end of the movie, Danny Roman piles up a huge amount of office furniture as a barricade and ignites it with a grenade of some kind. Flames appear almost immediately. When he counter-attacked the corrupt SWAT team some scenes before, he threw quite a lot of the same type of grenades without creating one single flame. [The grenade used to start the fire was an incendiary grenade, the others were high explosive grenades.]

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In the scene where the hostage taker is negotiating with Farley and says he can't use the word "no", it is exactly what happened in the Richard Bachman/Stephen King book "Rage." Even some of the dialogue is taken from the book. [I just re-read Rage this week and looked carefully for this scene. It does not exist. In "The Negotiator," the word "no" is what cannot be used by the negotiator and the gunman says that if it is, a hostage will be shot. In Rage, the gun-wielding student rapidly fires off questions to the de facto negotiator and demands that the negotiator answer the questions and never ask a question himself. The end of the scene was also the same with the negotiator getting tripped up and the gunman shooting the gun at no one to frighten the negotiator. However, the condition was different and no portion of the movie's dialog is taken from the book.]

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