History Film / BigGame

* BulletproofVest: Played somewhat more realistically than the usual version of this trope, as the most powerful thing Morris' vest is pitted against is an arrow. On the other hand - soft vests are weak, if any, protection from blades and arrows (that could mean that Oskari still needs practice with a bow).

* TruthInTelevision: When Oskari tries to shoot Morris with a bow for the second time, the arrow bounces off harmlessly -- the Secret Service agent is wearing kevlar vest.[[note]]In ''real'' reality, though, a kevlar weave vest will not stop sharp things like arrows or knives. In the movie, Oskari managed to hit dead-on against a bullet fragment in the bad guy's chest, which repelled the arrow but also pushed the fragment deeper and killed him.[[/note]]

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The chief of Moore's security detail, Morris, is an expert shot, tracker and fighter.

-->''You gotta cock it, mothafucka.''

-->''Do you read me now?''

* AwesomeMcCoolname: President William Allan Moore.

* MiddleEasternTerrorist: Hazar is allegedly the BastardBastard of a Gulf oil tycoon and a freelance terrorist, and with Morris' aid he's responsible for bringing down a weakened Air Force One with missile launchers, then sets out to [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunt, capture and ultimately kill the U.S. President]]. [[spoiler:In reality, Hazar is a CIA operative who was assigned to merely act the part of a Middle-Eastern terrorist, as part of a GovernmentConspiracy to renew the War on Terror]].

* RetiredBadass: Herbert, before becoming the head of Terrorist Intel, was a long-serving CIA operative. This pot-bellied, middle-aged and laid-back man shows he's still got it when [[spoiler:he brutally kills the Vice President faster than the man can scream]].

** [[spoiler:Secret Service agent Morris]] is one who gets exposed to the audience fairly early in the movie. As far as the President is concerned, he's a solemn but loyal bodyguard and friend who literally took a bullet for him. In actuality, he's so angry that he took a bullet for such an ineffectual U.S. President that he's helping Hazar to kidnap and ultimately kill the same President, he kills the other Secret Service agents ruthlessly, and he's even quite mocking when he confirms said agents' deaths or when he encounters Oskari.
** [[spoiler:Fred Herbert, and to a more {{downplayed}} extent, the Vice President]]. The former's laid-back yet highly competent personality and the latter's persona of a somewhat mousy and terse leader whom are both concerned about the President disguises the fact that [[spoiler:both of them organized the terrorist operation from the get go]].

* BrilliantButLazy: Herbert gives off this impression. He's laid-back, and often seen eating a sandwich or drinking from a mug throughout the movie, whilst tactically working out what's going on at breakneck speed and being way ahead of the curve compared to the other Pentagon officials [[spoiler:(although the brilliant part is partly justified by him being in the know on the GovernmentConspiracy)]].

* TheSociopath: Hazar is described by Herbert as a "certified Grade A psychopath". Hazar does display the LackOfEmpathy in how he can kill a civilian; the Shallow Effect in how he can even watch Morris shoot down two of Hazar's own men without batting an eye; the Pathological Need for Stimulation in his delight in and obsession with HuntingTheMostDangerousGame; and the Grandiose Sense of Self-Importance in how Morris calls him "over-privileged" and also in how he paints himself as the hunter capturing the President even after Morris does the legwork of tracking the President for him. The ConsummateLiar part? [[spoiler:Well, that's ironically evidenced by the very same thing that might discredit Hazar from being a sociopath altogether depending on Alternative Character Interpretation: he's able to fluidly play the part of a sociopathic man-hunter who cares only about his own wants to fool even Morris, when he's in actuality a fiercely-loyal CIA operative]].

* BadassMustache: Oskari's father, who killed a bear with a bow, arrows and a knife when he was 13, has a hella mustache.

* BeardOfEvil: Hazar has one.

* BlackHelicopter: Coincidentally, Hazar's hijacked helicopter is pitch black. [[spoiler:He's a member of government conspiracy.]] Ditto for [=SEALs=].

* BulletproofVest: Played somewhat more realistically than the usual version of this trope, as the most powerful thing Morris' vest is pitted against is an arrow. On other hand - soft vests are weak, if any, protection from blades and arrows, what could mean that Oskari stil needs practice with bow.

* TheCavalry: The Pentagon keeps trying to send a Navy SEAL team to rescue the president. However, this is made difficult when the escape pod tracker becomes dislodged and sends them to a farmhouse in rural Norway instead.

* DescriptionPorn: The description of surface-to-air rocket launcher Hazar gives the tour guide is insanely detailed, provoking an OhCrap moment for the guide.

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Morris, after Oskari nails him with a well-aimed shot to the chest.]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: For Herbert, his correct SherlockScan of entire situation, combined with him calmly [[TheSnackIsMoreInteresting eating a sandwich]] as he's briefed on the situation (Potentially subverted as [[spoiler:he is later revealed to be responsible for the situation he's discussing]]).

* FirstNameBasis: After referring to him as "president" throughout the entire film, Oskari calls Moore "Bill" (as Moore asked him earlier) when introducing him to his father.

* GovernmentConspiracy: [[spoiler:It is revealed in the last few minutes that the CIA and Vice President were responsible for the shooting down of Air Force One and the 'freelance terrorist' hunting the president was actually a CIA operative. They hoped that by killing Moore they would create enough national fear to spark a new [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror War on Terror]]]].
* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Herbert and the Vice President. Can also count as BitchInSheepsClothing.]]

* HeroicBSOD: Oskari has one when he sees that his father's "good hunting place" contains a refrigerator with a head of an already-shot deer, meaning that he doesn't believe that his WellDoneSonGuy kid can pass the RiteOfPassage.

* ItsAllAboutMe: The Vice-President has a moment of this when [[spoiler:He brushes off Herbert's comments about the failure of their plan and the death of their men by noting that also means that he doesn't get to be president.]]
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Herbert]] gets off scot-free and with no-one alive aware that he was part of the plan to kill the president.
* KickTheDog: Even though they're in the middle of wilderness and there's no way the tour guide could alert anyone as to what's going on, Hazar still makes him run for his own amusement and then shoots him.
* KidHero: Oskari is thirteen.

* LovableCoward: Moore's rather cowardly- he's even afraid of jumping three metres down, and his tactic throughout the film is hiding and running away- but definitely a likeable person, mostly because he's ''aware'' that he's a coward, and seems to overplay this aspect of himself in his mind.

* MistakenForAliens: The first question Oskari asks Moore is "what planet are you from". The second is "do you come in peace". The escape pod ''does'' look like a space capsule, after all, although you'd expect that big USAF written on it would tip him off.

** [[spoiler:Herbert]] texts Hazar when the circumstances make it too dangerous to try and take the president alive.

* PocketProtector: A variation -- when defending himself from Hazar, Moore uses a {{Doorstopper}} to stop a knife.
* PreMortemOneLiner: [[spoiler:Moore]], right before pumping a full magazine into [[spoiler:Hazar]]. Bonus points for it being IronicEcho.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: General Underwood, Herbert, and the CIA director are generally efficient in the search for the president and free of any stupid or {{Jerkass}} moments. Even the vice-president, while initially terse and a bit dense, but gets better as things go on. [[spoiler: Although for Herbert and the Vice-President subvert this with the reveal they're the masterminds of the conspiracy.]]

* SceneryPorn: The movie is full of loving shots of Finnish (actually Bavarian, see CaliforniaDoubling above) mountains.

--> '''Herbert:''' "That's the job of the guy on the inside" ''(takes bite out of sandwich)''.

* SmurfettePrinciple: The unnamed lady in National Security Vault is the only female being in the entire film besides a few flight attendants.
* TheSnackIsMoreInteresting: During the first hour of frantic search for the president, Herbert is seen chewing on his sandwich more often than looking on the screens.

* StealthPun: One of Oskari's neighbours is reading a newspaper at the end of the movie with an article about the presidents impeding visit to Helsinki. It is all written in Finnish apart from the headline that reads "We Want Moore!"

* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Villainous example -- Morris' and Hazar's cooperation is based on rather shaky foundations and the two come to blows more than once.

** He shoots the tour guide with a surface-to-air missile powerful enough to take down a passenger plane. It ends up vaporising the guy and levelling down a huge chunk of forest.

* TruthInTelevision: When Oskari tries to shoot Morris with a bow for the second time, the arrow bounces off harmlessly -- the Secret Service agent is wearing kevlar vest. [[note]]In ''real'' reality, though, a kevlar weave vest will not stop sharp things like arrows or knives. In the movie, Oskari managed to hit dead-on against a bullet fragment in the bad guy's chest, which repelled the arrow but also pushed the fragment deeper and killed him.[[/note]]

* WhamLine: During Air Force One confrontation, courtesy of Hazar.

* WouldHurtAChild: Morris has no problem punching 13 year old Oskari in the face, however, President Moore purposefully takes most of the beating to spare him.

* AffectionateNickname: At boy's own request, Moore refers to Oskari as 'Ranger'.

* BulletProofVest: Played somewhat more realistically than the usual version of this trope, as the most powerful thing Morris' vest is pitted against is an arrow. On other hand - soft vests are weak, if any, protection from blades and arrows, what could mean that Oskari stil needs practice with bow.

* BlackGuyDiesFirst: Otis is the first Secret Service agent to be killed by Morris.
* BigDamnHeroes: Oskari runs out of cover and jumps on the refrigator with Moore inside just as it's about to be flown away by Hazar's helicopter. He manages to cut the ropes, thus saving the president... ''again''.
* BigBadDuumvirate: Agent Morris and Hazar, although their cooperation is more along the lines of TeethClenchedTeamwork than anything else. They both want to hunt Moore down, although for somewhat different reasons.
* BittersweetEnding: The President is saved, Oskari proves himself to be an adept survivalist to his father, and is awarded the Medal of Honor for saving Moore's life. However, [[spoiler: [[GreaterScopeVillain Herbert]], the corrupt CIA operative who helped orchestrate the entire ordeal [[KarmaHoudini has killed everyone else who knew of it and is still at large]]]].
* BlackHelicopter: Coincidentally, Hazar's hijacked helicopter is pitch black. [[spoiler:He's a member of government conspiracy.]] Ditto for [=SEALs=].
* BlownAcrossTheRoom: When [[spoiler:Hazar]] is shot by a hail of bullets, he flies back a good three or so metres.

* DeadMansTriggerFinger: After [[spoiler:Morris ]] dies, his finger stays on the trigger and he ends up shooting his own helicopter.

* GreaterScopeVillain: [[spoiler: Herbert and the Vice President. Can also count as BitchInSheepsClothing]].

* StealthPun: One of Oskari's neighbours is reading a newspaper at the end of the movie with an article about the presidents impeding visit to Helsinki. It is all written in Finnish apart from the headline that reads "We Want Moore!".

* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:The government conspiracy.]] They believe they work for the good of their country, even if it means taking down the President and [[spoiler:torturing him to death to create a martyr.]]

* RealityEnsues: When Oskari tries to shoot Morris with a bow for the second time, the arrow bounces off harmlessly -- the Secret Service agent is wearing kevlar vest. [[note]]In ''real'' reality, though, a kevlar weave vest will not stop sharp things like arrows or knives. In the movie, Oskari managed to hit dead-on against a bullet fragment in the bad guy's chest, which repelled the arrow but also pushed the fragment deeper and killed him.[[/note]]

* {{Retirony}}: The trip to Finland is supposed to be Morris' OneLastJob. [[spoiler:He ends up killed.]]

* ChromosomeCasting: Masculine. There's only one woman visible on screen during the entire movie, and she doesn't even get a name.

* SmurfettePrinciple: The unnamed lady in National Security Vault is the only female being in the entire film.