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* MetalDetectorCheckpoint: At one Watson has to go through a security checkpoint while carrying a loaded gun. [[spoiler: The security guard turns off the his handheld metal detector while wanding Watson, demonstrating that the plot is wider-reaching than it initially appeared.]]
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* CorruptCop: Officer [[CorruptCop Trust]], one of Smith's co-conspirators.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The meek and mild-mannered Watson is trying to make a phone call at the bus station, while a group of QuincyPunk rollerbladers harass his young daughter. After they refuse to go away after he asks them numerous times, he [[PapaWolf knocks over a garbage can in their path]], sending them crashing to the floor [[BewareTheNiceOnes with a deadpan "Oops"]] and a reminder to his daughter to wear a helmet and kneepads when rollerskating.
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* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The meek and mild-mannered Watson is trying to make a phone call at the bus station, while a group of QuincyPunk rollerbladers [[TheQuincyPunk punk]] [[RollerbladeGood rollerbladers]] harass his young daughter. After they refuse to go away after he asks them numerous times, he [[PapaWolf knocks over a garbage can in their path]], sending them crashing to the floor [[BewareTheNiceOnes with a deadpan "Oops"]] and a reminder to his daughter to wear a helmet and kneepads when rollerskating.
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* PragmaticVillainy: When Brendan Grant realizes that his wife is not dead, and that she now knows he tried to have her killed, he just walks away, knowing that it doesn't matter what he does now.
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* VillainBall: The Governor's husband just has to monologue over her after he thinks she's been shot. [[EyeAwaken And then her eyes snap open]] as she comes to, and she stares at him in horror as her suspicious are revealed.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: At the end of the film, the grey-haired politician departs in his limo just before the police arrive, making it unclear if he will see justice for his part in the conspiracy.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: Watson's EstablishingCharacterMoment involves his "accidental" takedown of two rollerblading thugs when they are harassing his daughter. Gus, the bellhop, gets another one near the end when [[spoiler: he kills one of the conspirators, albeit on accident, by ramming him into an electrical panel with a heavy cart.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The radios' limited usefulness inside the hotel, and Watson's gun gets used at the end of the film [[spoiler: to stop Smith from killing his daughter.]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The radios' limited usefulness inside the hotel, and Watson's gun gets used at the end of the film [[spoiler: to stop Smith from killing his daughter.]]]] Even the dish cart that factors into the final climax gets some screentime a few scenes earlier.
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* VisualPun: The whole movie is interspersed with shots of clocks, wristwatches, etc. showing just how much time has passed in the film. During the final confrontation when Watson foils the assassination, we see someone's watch get torn off and then crushed under foot, showing that Watson has stopped the clock.
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* NoYouHangUp: Done briefly between Watson and his daughter over Smith's radio, much to Smith's annoyance.
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* TheReveal: Watson opens the envelope to look at the picture of his target. At the same time, some hotel workers unfurl a large re-election banner for Governor Eleanor Grant, who happens to be the woman in the photo.
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* ArcWords: Numerous phrases revolving around time, regarding either having enough time to do something or running out of it.
* BondOneLiner: [[CallBack "Nothing beats a good Wingtip!"]]
* BondOneLiner: [[CallBack "Nothing beats a good Wingtip!"]]
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* ChekhovsGun: The radios' limited usefulness inside the hotel, and Watson's gun gets used at the end of the film [[spoiler: to stop Smith from killing his daughter.]]
* ChekhovsGunman: If a character is focused on for more than one or two lines, they are guaranteed to become important later on. As the entire movie takes place in the same hotel, you tend to see the same people a lot. Played with in the end, with one background character who had been featured numerous times finally getting to play his part... as a newscaster reporting on the attempted assassination once everything is done.
* ChekhovsGunman: If a character is focused on for more than one or two lines, they are guaranteed to become important later on. As the entire movie takes place in the same hotel, you tend to see the same people a lot. Played with in the end, with one background character who had been featured numerous times finally getting to play his part... as a newscaster reporting on the attempted assassination once everything is done.
* ClosedCircle: Most of the film takes place in the hotel, over the course of an hour and a half.
* ClothingSwitch: When Watson needs to evade Smith for a while, he and Gus trade clothes, letting him sneak off while Gus sits on the toilet and pretends to be him.
* ClothingSwitch: When Watson needs to evade Smith for a while, he and Gus trade clothes, letting him sneak off while Gus sits on the toilet and pretends to be him.
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* DiesWideOpen: Krista Brooks, the Governor's aide, after she tries to warn Grant's husband about the assassination plot.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: This film could take place in the modern day easily enough, aside from the availability of payphones (very rare in modern America), and all of the plotters using handheld radios instead of mobile phones.
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* BadassVeteran: Huey, a [[DisabledBadass medically retired]] US Army artilleryman turned shoe shiner.
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* WorthyOpponent: Smith finally seems to genuinely respect Watson after he [[spoiler: shoots Smith to death in the climax.]]
* YouGotSpunk: Smith says this almost word-for-word to Watson after he starts to get ballsy.
* YouGotSpunk: Smith says this almost word-for-word to Watson after he starts to get ballsy.
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* BadassVeteran: Huey, a [[DisabledBadass medically retired]] US Army artilleryman turned shoe shiner.
* ChessMaster: Huey seems to know everyone who works in the hotel, and quickly puts together a plot with different staffers helping Watson along the way.
* CorruptCop: Officer [[CorruptCop Trust]], one of Smith's co-conspirators.
* TheDecoy: When Watson needs to evade Smith for a while,
* Determinator: Smith is very determined to keep Watson from trying to seek outside help, following him everywhere, to the point of seeming OffscreenTeleportation.
* DisabledBadass: Huey is partially deaf, and missing part of a leg. Doesn't stop him from helping Watson once he learns what is happening.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The meek and mild-mannered Watson is trying to make a phone call at the bus station, while a group of QuincyPunk rollerbladers harass his young daughter. After they refuse to go away after he asks them numerous times, he [[PapaWolf knocks over a garbage can in their path]], sending them crashing to the floor [[BewareTheNiceOnes with a deadpan "Oops"]] and a reminder to his daughter to wear a helmet and kneepads when rollerskating.
* CorruptCop: Officer [[CorruptCop Trust]], one of Smith's co-conspirators.
* TheDecoy: When Watson needs to evade Smith for a while,
* Determinator: Smith is very determined to keep Watson from trying to seek outside help, following him everywhere, to the point of seeming OffscreenTeleportation.
* DisabledBadass: Huey is partially deaf, and missing part of a leg. Doesn't stop him from helping Watson once he learns what is happening.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The meek and mild-mannered Watson is trying to make a phone call at the bus station, while a group of QuincyPunk rollerbladers harass his young daughter. After they refuse to go away after he asks them numerous times, he [[PapaWolf knocks over a garbage can in their path]], sending them crashing to the floor [[BewareTheNiceOnes with a deadpan "Oops"]] and a reminder to his daughter to wear a helmet and kneepads when rollerskating.
* HopeSpot: Watson tries to warn various people about the plot (cab driver, police officer, Huey, the Governor's aide) about the assassination plot, but is foiled at almost every turn (the cabbie doesn't even read the note he gives him before throwing it away, the cop is in on the assassination plot, Huey initially doesn't want anything to do with it, and the aide tries to get help, [[HaveYouToldAnyoneElse but is shot dead for her trouble]])
* ImagineSpot: Watson has a shootout where he guns down Smith, the corrupt detective, various other plotters, and almost escapes, only to be grabbed by Smith (not dead after all) who throws him out of a window, before it is revealed to be a dream he had after blacking out due to Smith choking him.
* IronicName: [[CorruptCop Officer Trust]]
* IronicName: [[CorruptCop Officer Trust]]
* LeonineContract: Smith and Jones are holding Watson's daughter hostage. If he doesn't assassinate his target, they kill his daughter. Worth noting, they never promise to let her go afterwards either.
* LostInTransmission: Quite a few characters use handheld radios to communicate with each other, and throughout the entire film, it is demonstrated that the radios have lots of trouble inside the concrete structure of the hotel, with one background character eventually [[DiscussedTrope complaining about]] this problem. [[ChekhovsGun Why yes, this does become important later on.]]
* LostInTransmission: Quite a few characters use handheld radios to communicate with each other, and throughout the entire film, it is demonstrated that the radios have lots of trouble inside the concrete structure of the hotel, with one background character eventually [[DiscussedTrope complaining about]] this problem. [[ChekhovsGun Why yes, this does become important later on.]]
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* MobstacleCourse: Watson is able to invoke this trope by FiringInTheAirALot in a crowded banquet hall in order to escape. Several hotel employees aid him by interfering with his persuiers, with one of the villains being accidentally killed by a bellhop in the process.
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* HyperpersistantPredator: Smith dogs Watson constantly to make sure he doesn't try anything. Finding a way to ditch him takes quite a bit of doing.
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* CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys: Why the villains don't want to blackmail a French couple into doing their bidding.
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A 1995 thriller movie starring JohnnyDepp Creator/JohnnyDepp and ChristopherWalken.Creator/ChristopherWalken. A young girl is taken hostage, and her father is told that he must kill a woman if he wants to get his girl back. He soon discovers that this woman is the governor of California.
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* BulletproofVest: Played straight, although one character finds cause to lament that the vests [[OnlyAFleshWound don't come with sleeves.]]
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* IdiotBall: The villains commit pretty unnecessary blunders that could have ([[spoiler:and then did]]) destroy their entire scheme (like [[spoiler:aptly killing off the governor's personal assistant without coming up with an explanation for her absence]]), though it is implied that they did so out of sheer nervousness and desperation (and, seeing how much of a XanatosRoulette this plan was, it is actually surprising they didn't make more mistakes than they did).
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* CompleteMonster: Smith (ChristopherWalken)
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* StrawmanPolitical: The bad guys are willing to go so far as murder a political opponent.
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* IdiotBall: The villains commit pretty unnecessary blunders that could have ([[spoiler:and then did]]) destroy their entire scheme (like [[spoiler:aptly killing off the governor's personal assistant without coming up with an explanation for her absence]]), though it is implied that the did so out of sheer nervousness and desperation (and, seeing how much of a XanatosRoulette this plan was, it is actually surprising they didn't make more mistakes than they did).
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* IdiotBall: The villains commit pretty unnecessary blunders that could have ([[spoiler:and then did]]) destroy their entire scheme (like [[spoiler:aptly killing off the governor's personal assistant without coming up with an explanation for her absence]]), though it is implied that the they did so out of sheer nervousness and desperation (and, seeing how much of a XanatosRoulette this plan was, it is actually surprising they didn't make more mistakes than they did).
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* WouldHurtAChild: They're serious when they say they'll kill Watson's daughter. Hell, they try to do it out of spite.
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A 1995 thriller movie starring JohnnyDepp and ChristopherWalken. A young girl is taken hostage, and her father is told that he must kill a woman if he wants to get his girl back. He soon discovers that this woman is the governor of California.
[[NamesTheSame Not to be confused]] with what NicolasCage [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} apparently ascended to the God Tiers as to survive the destruction of Earth]].
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!! This film provides examples of:
* BulletproofVest: Played straight, although one character finds cause to lament that the vests don't come with ''sleeves''.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Huey beats one of the bad guys unconscious with his prosthetic leg.
* HotDad / PapaWolf: It's JohnnyDepp, and he's willing to do ''anything'' to protect his daughter. Aww.
* IHaveYourWife: The bad guys are holding Watson's daughter hostage, in order to secure his cooperation. They keep showing up to remind him of the fact, just in case he gets any crazy ideas.
* LargeHam: It's ChristopherWalken as a bad guy. What do you think?
* ObfuscatingDisability: Huey really is disabled. But he's an amputee, not deaf as Watson lead Smith to believe.
* MobstacleCourse: Watson is able to invoke this trope by FiringInTheAirALot in a crowded banquet hall in order to escape.
* RealTime: With multiple shots of nearby clocks to show exactly how much time is passing.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Smith and Jones, although technically only the former is a guy.
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[[NamesTheSame Not to be confused]] with what NicolasCage [[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} apparently ascended to the God Tiers as to survive the destruction of Earth]].
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!! This film provides examples of:
* BulletproofVest: Played straight, although one character finds cause to lament that the vests don't come with ''sleeves''.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Huey beats one of the bad guys unconscious with his prosthetic leg.
* HotDad / PapaWolf: It's JohnnyDepp, and he's willing to do ''anything'' to protect his daughter. Aww.
* IHaveYourWife: The bad guys are holding Watson's daughter hostage, in order to secure his cooperation. They keep showing up to remind him of the fact, just in case he gets any crazy ideas.
* LargeHam: It's ChristopherWalken as a bad guy. What do you think?
* ObfuscatingDisability: Huey really is disabled. But he's an amputee, not deaf as Watson lead Smith to believe.
* MobstacleCourse: Watson is able to invoke this trope by FiringInTheAirALot in a crowded banquet hall in order to escape.
* RealTime: With multiple shots of nearby clocks to show exactly how much time is passing.
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Smith and Jones, although technically only the former is a guy.
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