Barnes radioed to tell Lorenzo (and Grant) to provide backup support - they quickly arrived to surround the building, but the mercenaries (and Esperanza) escaped on snowmobiles after wiring the building and their equipment to explode with booby-traps.As is true of many of Howard Hawks"" finest films (including he crime filmScarface (1932),Twentieth Century (1934),His Girl Friday (1940),To Have and Have Not (1944), the detective filmThe Big Sleep (1946),Monkey Business (1952), andGentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)), this masterpiece was not nominated for a single Academy Award.With the tagline: "Expect the impossible again."Directed by John Woo, with excessive expectations of replicating Woo""s HK action films, such asThe Killer (1989).Everyone is baffled and wonderstruck.One of the researchers, David Laughlin from the opening sequence, exclaims and asks: "I don""t believe it...Not that I have the slightest idea...I hold no truck with silence.I""ve got nothing to hide...It""s just that you worry about the stranger only if you look at him from a certain aspect." According to his perspective, Doc looks upon he intruder "with the innocence of a fresh-laid egg." Hastings joins the group and is ordered by Reno to investigate the man""s background hrough Nick Gandi, a private detective at the Blake Hotel: "Send a wire to Nick Gandi in Los Angeles.