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* AloofBigBrother: Hon and Shan aren’t related by blood, but they are BloodBrothers working in the same triad syndicate, and Shan being Hon’s protégé, Hon tends to fulfill the big brother role watching Shan’s back.

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* AloofBigBrother: Hon and Shan aren’t related by blood, but they are BloodBrothers [[SwornBrothers blood brothers]] working in the same triad syndicate, and Shan being Hon’s protégé, Hon tends to fulfill the big brother role watching Shan’s back.

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* ForeignRemake: The whole movie is a rather blatant one to ''Film/Scarface1983''. Numerous references shows up in this movie, including the GoodTimesMontage showing Hon and Shan and their rise to power, a scene where Shan is hung by his wrists while Gui, a rival mobster threatens him with a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]], Hon’s subsequent rescue providing a HeroicSecondWind that culminates with Shan personally shooting Gui in public (the camera angle is even deliberately filmed to imitate Tony Montana executing Hector from ''Scarface''), and the final mansion shootout.



* ShoutOut: Several references to ''Film/Scarface1983'' shows up in this movie, including the GoodTimesMontage showing Hon and Shan and their rise to power, a scene where Shan is hung by his wrists while Gui, a rival mobster threatens him with a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]], Hon’s subsequent rescue providing a HeroicSecondWind that culminates with Shan personally shooting Gui in public (the camera angle is even deliberately filmed to imitate Tony Montana executing Hector from ''Scarface''), and the final mansion shootout.
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Hon (Simon Yam) and his partner Ngok (Creator/LoLieh) are triad hitmen, but besides their covert jobs as killers, they also have to contend with their daily lives, with Hon and his happy-go-lucky roommate and adopted brother Shan (Jacky Cheung) being nosy about Hon's true career, and Ngok being a single father trying to keep his job a secret from his daughter. But when a botched hit had Shan finding out Hon's job, Shan instead decides to join Hon and Ngok into becoming triad assassins.

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Hon (Simon Yam) and his partner Ngok (Creator/LoLieh) are triad hitmen, but besides their covert jobs as killers, they also have to contend with their daily lives, with Hon and his happy-go-lucky roommate and adopted brother Shan (Jacky Cheung) (Creator/JackyCheung) being nosy about Hon's true career, and Ngok being a single father trying to keep his job a secret from his daughter. But when a botched hit had Shan finding out Hon's job, Shan instead decides to join Hon and Ngok into becoming triad assassins.
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* LeaveNoSurvivors: Overlapping with aversion of InfantImmortality, an assassination assignment ends with Hon and Ngok killing a mob leader and his wife, but leaving behind the mob leader’s young daughter. When Hon questions about what to do with the child, Ngok responds by executing the poor girl with a NeckSnap.

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* LeaveNoSurvivors: Overlapping with aversion of InfantImmortality, an An assassination assignment ends with Hon and Ngok killing a mob leader and his wife, but leaving behind the mob leader’s young daughter. When Hon questions about what to do with the child, Ngok responds by executing the poor girl with a NeckSnap.
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Hon (Simon Yam) and his partner Ngok (Lo Lieh) are triad hitmen, but besides their covert jobs as killers, they also have to contend with their daily lives, with Hon and his happy-go-lucky roommate and adopted brother Shan (Jacky Cheung) being nosy about Hon's true career, and Ngok being a single father trying to keep his job a secret from his daughter. But when a botched hit had Shan finding out Hon's job, Shan instead decides to join Hon and Ngok into becoming triad assassins.

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Hon (Simon Yam) and his partner Ngok (Lo Lieh) (Creator/LoLieh) are triad hitmen, but besides their covert jobs as killers, they also have to contend with their daily lives, with Hon and his happy-go-lucky roommate and adopted brother Shan (Jacky Cheung) being nosy about Hon's true career, and Ngok being a single father trying to keep his job a secret from his daughter. But when a botched hit had Shan finding out Hon's job, Shan instead decides to join Hon and Ngok into becoming triad assassins.
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* WoundedGazelleGambit: For their first onscreen kill, Ngok and Hon stages an accident, with Ngok (disguised as a motorcycle cop) crashing his bike in front of the suspect’s car. As the suspects get out to check on Ngok, Ngok then gets up and starts shooting, while Hon pulls up behind their target and blasts away bodyguards using an Uzi.

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* WoundedGazelleGambit: For their first onscreen kill, Ngok and Hon stages an accident, with Ngok (disguised as a motorcycle cop) crashing his bike in front of the suspect’s car. As the suspects targets get out to check on Ngok, Ngok then gets up and starts shooting, while Hon pulls up behind their target and blasts away bodyguards using an Uzi.
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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Ngok went through hell and back to provide the best for his teenage daughter, even begging Hon to [[TakeCareOfTheKids look after her]] as his LastRequest. Barely a day after Ngok’s death, assassins coming after Hon attacks and [[DiabolusExMachina Ngok’s daughter ends up being killed in the shootout]], a few minutes after learning of her father’s death]]. To rub hydrochloric acid into the wound, [[spoiler: both father and daughter died taking bullets meant for Hon]].
* ShoutOut: Several references to ''Film/Scarface1983'' shows up in this movie, including the GoodTimesMontage showing Hon and Shan and their rise to power, a scene where Shan is hung by his wrists while Gui, a rival mobster threatens him with a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]], Hon’s subsequent rescue providing a HeroicSecondWind that culminates with Shan personally shooting Gui in public (the camera angle is even deliberately filmed to imitate Tony Montana executing Hector from Scarface), and the final mansion shootout.

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* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Ngok went through hell and back to provide the best for his teenage daughter, even begging Hon to [[TakeCareOfTheKids look after her]] as his LastRequest. Barely a day after Ngok’s death, assassins coming after Hon attacks and [[DiabolusExMachina Ngok’s daughter ends up being killed in the shootout]], a few minutes after learning of her father’s death]].demise]]. To rub hydrochloric acid into the wound, [[spoiler: both father and daughter died taking bullets meant for Hon]].
* ShoutOut: Several references to ''Film/Scarface1983'' shows up in this movie, including the GoodTimesMontage showing Hon and Shan and their rise to power, a scene where Shan is hung by his wrists while Gui, a rival mobster threatens him with a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]], Hon’s subsequent rescue providing a HeroicSecondWind that culminates with Shan personally shooting Gui in public (the camera angle is even deliberately filmed to imitate Tony Montana executing Hector from Scarface), ''Scarface''), and the final mansion shootout.



** Hon is basically the token MrFanservice of this film, spending at least 5 scenes shirtless with plenty of focus on his pecs. A couple of these examples he’s wearing pale briefs.

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** Hon is basically the token MrFanservice of this film, spending at least 5 scenes shirtless with plenty of focus on his pecs. A In a couple of these examples he’s wearing pale briefs.
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[[caption-width-right:350: [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou Simon Yam, Jacky Cheung and Lo Lieh is going to turn your body into Swiss cheese]].]]

''Bullet for Hire'' is a 1991 Hong Kong HeroicBloodshed movie, reuniting Creator/SimonYam and Jacky Cheung (from their previous year's collaboration, ''Film/BulletInTheHead'') where this time they are sworn brothers who becomes triad hitmen and assassins.

Hon (Simon Yam) and his partner Ngok (Lo Lieh) are triad hitmen, but besides their covert jobs as killers, they also have to contend with their daily lives, with Hon and his happy-go-lucky roommate and adopted brother Shan (Jacky Cheung) being nosy about Hon's true career, and Ngok being a single father trying to keep his job a secret from his daughter. But when a botched hit had Shan finding out Hon's job, Shan instead decides to join Hon and Ngok into becoming triad assassins.

The movie contains multiple parallels to ''Film/Scarface1983'', to the point of becoming close to a ForeignRemake. Similar elements including a nobody rising in power in a triad syndicate, torture scenes involving a chainsaw, a montage depicting the characters' rise to power with a roaring energetic song playing in the background, morally ambiguous main characters, and a final shootout in a mansion.

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* AloofBigBrother: Hon and Shan aren’t related by blood, but they are BloodBrothers working in the same triad syndicate, and Shan being Hon’s protégé, Hon tends to fulfill the big brother role watching Shan’s back.
* AntiHero: Hon and Ngok are the main characters who works as hitmen and hired killers. And Shan, Hon’s younger protégé, a naïve, happy-go-lucky young man, ends up being groomed into a killing machine by Hon.
* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler: By the time the credits starts rolling Shan is the only named character still alive]].
* BackToBackBadasses: Hon and Shan in the final shootout against Dick’s thugs.
* BerserkButton: Shan doesn’t take it kindly when people call him a "bumpkin".
* BigFancyHouse: The final shootout where Shan and Hon battles Dick’s legion of thugs takes place in Dick’s mansion. [[spoiler: In typical Hong Kong fashion, the entire mansion gets blown up by the end of the climax]].
* BolivianArmyEnding: [[spoiler: Hon dies in the final battle, and as Dick tries to escape, he ends up running into a heavily-wounded Shan, who then stabs Dick multiple times in cold blood]]. Cue Shan’s SkywardScream, and then the credits roll.
* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Shan, after taking part in his first hit alongside Hon, have this reaction.
* DarkActionGirl: There are actually female triads and gangsters, who ends up being gunned down by Hon and Shan in the multiple shootouts throughout the film.
* GanglandDriveBy: Part of the GoodTimesMontage involves Hon and Shan performing a hit, with Hon driving their vehicle and Shan firing an Uzi out of the windows killing three rival mobsters in the process.
* GoodTimesMontage: A short one featuring Hon and Shan rising in their ranks as triad hitmen, lifted straight out of ''Film/Scarface1983''.
* GoryDiscretionShot
** Ngok killing a child with a NeckSnap. Although at least it happened offscreen (The audience hears a SickeningCrunch, [[CensoredChildDeath but didn’t see anything]]). The most we get is a ReactionShot of Shan wincing.
** The chainsaw scene where Gui kills Shan’s partner, which is ripped off from ''Scarface'' and much like its inspiration, doesn’t show the execution in graphic detail.
* GunsAkimbo: Ngok does this in an early scene, as shown in the above poster.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Ngok uses himself as a meatshield taking multiple bullets meant for Hon, [[IOweYouMyLife repaying Hon for saving him]] in the earlier banquet shootout]].
* IHaveAFamily: Ngok, while being a hitman and assassin, is also a single father to a teenage girl. Try to imagine how he feels when he’s forced to execute a little girl to LeaveNoWitnesses…
* ImpersonatingAnOfficer: The opening hit have Hon and Ngok carrying out their assassination while disguised as traffic cops.
* JanitorImpersonationInfiltration: The waterfront banquet assassination had Shan and Ngok infiltrating while disguised respectively as a waiter and a cleaner. Ngok hides his pistol in a tea kettle, while Shan hides his machine-gun together with brooms and cleaning supplies.
** Hon, being more practical, instead opts to sneak in from the pier while wearing a wetsuit.
* LeaveNoSurvivors: Overlapping with aversion of InfantImmortality, an assassination assignment ends with Hon and Ngok killing a mob leader and his wife, but leaving behind the mob leader’s young daughter. When Hon questions about what to do with the child, Ngok responds by executing the poor girl with a NeckSnap.
* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: Dick, the BigBad in the final scene, staggering out of the ruins of his mansion which just got blown up… only to find Shan, the only other survivor of the shootout, waiting for him. Shan then finishes him off by stabbing Dick multiple times through the gut]].
* PoolScene: One scene in a public sauna owned by the mobsters, with Simon Yam, Jacky Cheung, Lo Lieh and several Hong Kong megastars walking around with their abs exposed.
* RuleOfPool: In the final shootout, Shan ends up cornered on the edge of the mansion’s roof, with Dick’s minions behind him. Shan then jumps off the roof into the swimming pool below, and miraculously surviving.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Ngok went through hell and back to provide the best for his teenage daughter, even begging Hon to [[TakeCareOfTheKids look after her]] as his LastRequest. Barely a day after Ngok’s death, assassins coming after Hon attacks and [[DiabolusExMachina Ngok’s daughter ends up being killed in the shootout]], a few minutes after learning of her father’s death]]. To rub hydrochloric acid into the wound, [[spoiler: both father and daughter died taking bullets meant for Hon]].
* ShoutOut: Several references to ''Film/Scarface1983'' shows up in this movie, including the GoodTimesMontage showing Hon and Shan and their rise to power, a scene where Shan is hung by his wrists while Gui, a rival mobster threatens him with a [[ChainsawGood chainsaw]], Hon’s subsequent rescue providing a HeroicSecondWind that culminates with Shan personally shooting Gui in public (the camera angle is even deliberately filmed to imitate Tony Montana executing Hector from Scarface), and the final mansion shootout.
* TheStoic: Hon displays absolutely no emotion as he guns down targets left and right, only with a cold, motionless grin when performing executions.
*TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Attempted by Hon in the finale; while struggling with Dick in the mainsion’s kitchen and hearing more thugs coming, Hon decides to instead pull out the cord of a gas canister, and then ignites a lighter. Hon succeeds in blowing up himself and the remaining thugs, but Dick survives the explosion]].
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: In the opening chase, Hon, on a motorcycle, lobs a grenade into his target’s car, blowing up half of the vehicle and causing it to crash, but somehow his target survives (well barely, being an AlmostDeadGuy with [[AnArmAndALeg an arm ripped off as result of the crash]]) and is trying to crawl out of the car’s wreckage. Hon then shoots the crashed vehicle’s fuel tank, blowing up the almost-dead target into bits.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Hon (Simon Yam) in a bathrobe early on in the film, while discussing his next assassination assignment. And later on, in a sauna with Ngok.
** Hon is basically the token MrFanservice of this film, spending at least 5 scenes shirtless with plenty of focus on his pecs. A couple of these examples he’s wearing pale briefs.
* WhiteShirtOfDeath: Many mooks are shown wearing white, which inevitably gets splattered with blood when Hon and Shan mows them down. Especially in the waterfront banquet assassination who goes wrong, and Ngok ends up wearing a white tux stained red with his own blood after being shot in the chest and falling into the water (but surviving).
* WoundedGazelleGambit: For their first onscreen kill, Ngok and Hon stages an accident, with Ngok (disguised as a motorcycle cop) crashing his bike in front of the suspect’s car. As the suspects get out to check on Ngok, Ngok then gets up and starts shooting, while Hon pulls up behind their target and blasts away bodyguards using an Uzi.
* WorkoutFanservice: Shan (played by a rather young Jacky Cheung) doing pull-ups in a bathrobe.

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* AloofBigBrother: Hon and Shan aren’t related by blood, but they are BloodBrothers working in the same triad syndicate, and Shan being Hon’s protégé, Hon tends to fulfill the big brother role watching Shan’s back.
* AntiHero: Hon and Ngok are the main characters who works as hitmen and hired killers. And Shan, Hon’s younger protégé, a naïve, happy-go-lucky young man, ends up being groomed into a killing machine by Hon.

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* AloofBigBrother: Hon and Shan aren’t related by blood, but they are BloodBrothers working in the same triad syndicate, and Shan being Hon’s protégé, Hon tends to fulfill the big brother role watching Shan’s back.
* AntiHero: Hon and Ngok are the main characters who works as hitmen and hired killers. And Shan, Hon’s younger protégé, a naïve, happy-go-lucky young man, ends up being groomed into a killing machine by Hon.



* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Attempted by Hon in the finale; while struggling with Dick in the mainsion’s kitchen and hearing more thugs coming, Hon decides to instead pull out the cord of a gas canister, and then ignites a lighter. Hon succeeds in blowing up himself and the remaining thugs, but Dick survives the explosion]].

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* TakingYouWithMe: *TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: Attempted by Hon in the finale; while struggling with Dick in the mainsion’s kitchen and hearing more thugs coming, Hon decides to instead pull out the cord of a gas canister, and then ignites a lighter. Hon succeeds in blowing up himself and the remaining thugs, but Dick survives the explosion]].

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