It’s actually the norm in some countries, Portugal for example, to have an intermission in the middle of every movie. It allows people to go pee, have a cig, buy more drinks and snacks (so works for the cinema as well).

They often use stolen bikes / scooters to commit other crimes.

I don’t know if they overexaggerated the amount of force applied, but the whole situation is realistic and well documented:

It’s also in Europe from the point of physical geography.

Europe is defined geographically by Gibraltar Strait, Bosphorus Strait, Ural Mountains and Caucasus Mountains. Baku is in Europe if we are talking about the physical geography.