When the Black Veteran was wounded asking people for help and people just dismissed him as another bum. After seeing that people didn't view him as a man, he accepted his fate and was killed.
I know this movie wasn't the best in the world plot wise but that scene was pretty powerful.
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I thought he had an even more powerful scene earlier, when he's going through the selection process, and he's asked about next of kin and family members, and he is made to repeat that he has no one and there's no one left in his family, etc, and you can see he's fighting back sadness with a fake smile. Tragic character, and more emotion than you'd expect in a Van Damme action film from the 90's.
sharethis is the reason why i posted. felling bad for elija.
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Wholeheartedly agree, Elijah was cool.
The black people in this movie suffer the worst. There's the black detective who has no-one to celebrate her birthday with and later gets killed.
The actress, Kasi Lemmons, had appeared in a 1988 episode of The Equalizer (Day of the Covenant) where one of the characters refers to a police station as a hard target: "I think that a police station is considered a hard target in wartime."
I felt sympathy for both characters.
Elijah death was heartbreaking, the scene when he said he didn't have any family is even sadder. Det. Mitchell portrayed as a lonely person in work and life, I am truly curious about her background story. It's shame we didn't get any hint.
It's maybe the Van Damme movie with the most interesting characters, I can't think of one boring or annoying character.
I suspect it was John Woo's touch. He brought human heart to the action. I think Hard Target was Woo's best movie he made in the USA.
shareIt's unexpected but pretty effective.
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