One of the most memorable moments in the film is when Harry and Perry are captured by Harlan Dexter (Corbin Bernsen) and Mr. Fire (Rockmond Dunbar). Unfortunately for Harry, Mr. Fire picks a particularly grim method of torture — choosing to electrocute him using jumper cables attached to his manhood. Ouch. While he's screaming in pain, Perry questions why Mr. Fire chose that torture method over something else, suggesting that the thug is gay — something Mr. Fire quickly takes offence to and tortures Harry with a higher voltage. Double ouch.
Perry continues to take this too far, pretending to try and seduce Mr. Fire and even gestures towards his own crotch. Luckily, he literally has a small revolver hidden in his pants and shoots Mr. Fire several times. Now, it's not what Perry says to the thug that takes things too far, nor is it the way Harry is tortured. After all, it's an effective set piece that definitely gets the audience squirming, but both of these things happening at the same time is too overwhelming. Perry trying to get inside the thug's head and play up to his homophobia makes sense, but it's trying to do too much at once with Harry also screaming in pain.
The scene is a muddled mess of clever writing, "a homophobe would never check there," and a desire to heavily lean into the darker, noir side to the story. Thankfully, it doesn't completely ruin the film.
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