History Film / DraggedAcrossConcrete

* InformedAttractiveness: The bank manager waxes very poetic about how enchanting Kelly's presence is in the office, and a co-worker pouts about how slender she's remained even right after childbirth.\

* InformedAttractiveness: The bank manager waxes very poetic about how enchanting Kelly's presence is in the office, and a co-worker pouts about how slender she's remained even right after childbirth.

* AsianStoreowner: [[AllThereInTheManual Sid]], the unfortunate cashier robbed by Black Gloves.

* {{Fingore}}: Before getting killed, [[spoiler:Kelly]] gets all her]] fingers and half of a hand blown into a bloody stump with a hail of gunfire.

* EnhancedInterrogationTechniques: Downplayed. Brett gives Rosalinda a cold shower and then turns the ceiling fans on while she's wet and almost naked. He doesn't injure her, but it's still unethical. He also pins a suspect to a fire escape.

** Brett and Tony are in the middle of a stake-out, heckling each other over a coffee order. Then they proceed to do clean, if a bit excessive operation with full efficiency and [[NobleBigotwithaBadge never stopping being offensive toward their suspects]]. They are also not above using underhand tactics to get things done.

* {{Fingore}}: Before [[spoiler: she]] is killed off, [[spoiler: Kelly gets all her]] fingers and half of a hand blown into a bloody stump with a hail of gunfire.

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Henry is an accessory to a robbery that resulted in several deaths, which makes him a murderer according to the felony murder doctrine, but he escapes scot-free and wins millions of dollars. Likewise, his mother is a junkie who blew her money on drugs rather than care for her youngest child. In the end, she's receiving a massage in a mansion]].

* MetaCasting: Creator/MelGibson and Creator/VinceVaughn as two racist police officers who routinely get in trouble because of the political correctness climate around and who ruin their careers thanks to it. At times, it's so blatant it starts to grate on the audience.

* TheDogBitesBack: Vogelmann wrongly assumes [[spoiler: his "muscles" are going to just play along and keep acting like lambs led to slaughter. Biscuit gives him hell for all the mistreatment and ultimately Henry walks away from the whole thing as the sole survivor, taking the loot with him]].

* DumbMuscle: Vogelmann and his crew assume this about Biscuit and Henry. They are wrong. Boy, they are so wrong.

* YouSaidYouWouldLetThemGo: After eventually pointing them to the location of a duffel bag full of drugs, Rosalinda is still arrested by the detectives. When she tries to call them out on their promise, they pretend they can't understand her. Again.

** Brett and Tony completely wreck Vogelmann's masterplan. Not only does their presence alone put the entire operation to a screetching halt, but [[spoiler: the crew is completely unable to counter the detective duo despite having both superior firepower and an armoured van]].

* KillEmAll: By the end of the story, [[spoiler: Henry, his family and Ridgeman's family are the only known surviving primary characters]].

* AmbiguousDisorder: Kelly is, most likely, suffering from postpartum depression which persists beyond her lengthy maternity leave - she's visibly unhinged and unable to just leave home and return to work. Her husband has to lock the doors and essentially kick her out. Whatever it is, she's not well.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: Due to the HyperlinkStory nature of the film, dozens of different characters are introduced for ''each "link"''.

%%* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters

* AdultFear:
** Ridgeman and his wife Melanie fear for their daughter's safety if they continue to raise her in their rough neighborhood.
** Kelly Summer's extreme reluctance to leave her baby and return to work turns out to be fully justified, considering [[spoiler: she never sees him again]].

-> ''There's a lot of imbeciles out there.''

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Ridgeman and Lurasetti express some very politically incorrect opinions about police brutality, race relations and masculinity, something you might expect from hard-nosed cops speaking with no filters. * DevelopingDoomedCharacters: [[spoiler:Two whole scenes are dedicated to giving a backstory to Kelly, a bystander during the bank robbery who gets killed right at the beginning of the ordeal]].

* DefiantToTheEnd: [[spoiler: Biscuit, who swallows the ignition key to the getaway van after being shot by Vogelman's henchmen. As the robbers try to torture him for the whereabouts of the key by shooting his legs and crotch, [[RealityEnsues the pain causes him to vomit the key up]], then he quickly swallows it ''again'' before they finish him off with a headshot.]]

* NWordPrivileges: Henry calls ''everyone'' nigger. Some affectionately. Some insultingly. Some just because.