There are super powers we might realistically develop. Like being able to run faster or longer distances than most people.
Look at the old movie Get Carter. Michael Caine plays a cockney gangster who, besides being a complete psychopath, can run really fast. And the cops don't have guns there so they couldn't shoot him in the leg.
In Marathon Man, Dustin Hoffman doesn't quite weaponize jogging, but he makes good use if it.
I just watched the opening of the movie, the road rage incident involving elderly New Yorkers. An elderly Jewish guy in an Impala was the aggressor against a pitiful old German in a Mercedes, two old men, each in an old car they could barely keep running. It was an interesting sequence. It may have been an homage to two other Roy Scheider movies, The French Connection and its sequel, The Seven Ups. Roy was driving in The Seven Ups. In this movie, bystanders were bewildered rather than afraid for their safety. The drivers got to shout abuse at each other.
I'm perfectly fine with a Nazi burning to death, of course. The Jewish guy who murdered him didn't really know he was a Nazi, so it was just as well that he was killed, too.
Dustin Hoffman plays a 40-year-old college student. He has a butt shot.
With Lawrence Olivier on his last legs playing a Nazi war criminal. This was the first movie I ever saw him in as far as I know.
I saw a profile of Olivier back then on 60 Minutes which characterized this as one of a number of movies he was in at the end that weren't very good. Olivier knew he wasn't long for this world and needed to make money to leave to his family. But I thought this movie was pretty good. I don't know what Morley Safer had against it.
I also remember someone saying they saw a kid standing out in the lobby during the movie. His parents sent him out during the torture scene.
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