History Film / HudsonHawk

* AssholeVictim: Eddie's corrupt parole officer Gates, who gets his throat cut by Alfred [[DeathByRacism after he starts berating him for being British.]]
* {{Auction}}: While Eddie and Anna Baragli are at an auction for the statue of a horse, the Mayflowers kill the auctioneer with an bomb placed in his gavel to disrupt the auction.

* {{Camp}}: It's basically a live-action cartoon.

* CheckPlease: While Eddie and Anna are in a cafe, Anna says that knowing he was in prison excites her. Eddie: "Check please!"

** Actually James Coburn is hamming it up quite well.

* WhyWontYouDie: Butterfinger gets nailed in the chest by three arrows [[spoiler:fired by Minerva, because the Mayflowers are double-crossing Kaplan]] and his reaction is [[TheDyingWalk to get out of the room to report to Kaplan before dying]]. While she doesn't says it out loud, [[spoiler:Minerva's wide-eyed reaction]] at Butterfinger not keeling over dead instantly implies she was thinking this.

* SinisterSpyAgency: Kaplan and the Candy Bars are CIA and very much okay with being hired goons to the psychotic Mayflowers. Kaplan also fondly reminisces his glory days in one scene, pointing out to Hawk that they are standing in the place where he performed his first assassination.

->Eddie: StopHelpingMe!
->Anna: Sorry!

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The horse Da Vinci made out of clay is the target of a heist in the film...but said horse shouldn't even ''exist'', since it never got further than a clay model (a ''full-size'' one), and said model was destroyed in 1499 by French soldiers, who used it as a target for archery practice. Similarly, Leonardo's glider exists as a drawing only, not as an actual model (let alone functioning one).

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: The horse Da Vinci made out of clay is the target of a heist in the film...but said horse shouldn't even ''exist'', since it never got further than a clay model, and said model was destroyed in 1499 by French soldiers, who used it as a target for archery practice.

** And unless it's a [[ViewersAreGeniuses sophisticated joke]], "Sforza" is the name of the patron duke of Milan who funded the sculpture, not of the horse itself (which is most often referred to by art historians as, well, [[ADogNamedDog "Horse"]]).

** And unless it's a sophisticated joke, "Sforza" is the name of the patron duke who funded the sculpture, not of the horse itself (which is most often referred to by art historians as, well, [[ADogNamedDog "Horse"]]).

* TookALevelInBadass: Subverted when Anna gets the jump on the Candy Bars with a gun, but they know she's going to use it, because [[spoiler: she's a nun]].

** "[[IsThatWhatTheyreCallingItNow Will you play Nintendo with me?]]"

* NiceHat: To Eddie at least, as realizing that it has fallen off his head is what allows him to break free from the involuntary movements that Kaplan had him locked in.

** [[spoiler: Minerva actually gets coated in bronze, making it a [[BrickJoke Brick Joke]] from the prologue (Hawk's sabotage of the crystal assembly makes the machine do what Da Vinci was actually trying to accomplish in the first place)]].