History Film / PatriotsDay

** Tamerlan blaming Dzhokhar for distracting him which allowed Dun Meng to escape.

* FacingTheBulletsOneLiner: From Watertown Police Sgt. John [=MacLellan=] during the shootout: '''''"WELCOME TO WATERTOWN, MOTHERFUCKERS!"'''''

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: During the Watertown shootout, despite Tamerlan having a Ruger P95 pistol with ''several'' magazines, he manages not to hit a single cop even Watertown PD Sergeant Pugliese at close distance after they empty an entire clip at each other.

** Dun Meng as a patron of the pizza parlor where he has his date.

* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: The police officers at the Watertown shootout. They went from the usual civilian "three shots at three yards in three seconds" into something out of Film/BlackHawkDown, with [[MadBomber terrorists]] turning a street into a smoking waste of bombed out police cars.

* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: During the Watertown shootout, Tamerlan having a Ruger P95 pistol with several magazines, he manages not to hit a single cop even Watertowm PD Sergeant Pugliese at close distance.

* MirandaRights: Averted as in real life. Katherine Russell Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were questioned without being read their rights under the "public safety exemption" to ''Miranda''. When Katherine demands that she be given a lawyer and has rights, the interrogators tell her she's got shit.

** For all of their attempts to evade and fight back against the police, the brothers wind up being their worst enemy in the most literal sense possible: the older, more fanatical bomber is [[http://www.newsweek.com/boston-police-say-bomber-ran-over-his-brother-and-dragged-him-314141 run over and even ''dragged'']] by his younger, panicky accomplice. Additionally counts as KarmicDeath.

** Dun Meng was held hostage by the Tsarnaev brothers for roughly 90 minutes. The movie makes it seem very brief, even though he tells Mark Wahlberg's character, "They drove me around for like an hour."

* ChekhovsGunman: Dun Meng. [[spoiler: He gets serendipitously kidnapped by the Tsarnaev brothers and when he escapes, he gives Boston PD his GPS tracking number, leading up to the Watertown shootout and the brothers' downfall]].

* BoomHeadshot: More like ''"headshots"''. Tamerlan shoots Officer Sean Collier multiple times in the head. What makes it even more gruesome is that the first shot doesn't kill him, as the bullet goes through his left cheekbone and out the other.

* ChekhovsGunman: Dun Meng. [[spoiler: He gets serendipitously kidnapped by the Tsarnaev brothers and when he escapes, he gives Boston PD his GPS tracking number, leading up to their downfall]].

** Had Meng not stopped to text with a friend--as happened in RealLife--he would not have been taken hostage. He was able to escape and provide the police with enough information (including the GPS tracking number of the car they stole) to locate the terrorists before they could attempt another bombing at Times Square.

* TrackingDevice: When Dun Meng escapes the Tsarnev brothers, he is able to provide the GPS number for his vehicle. Thus, the Boston police is able to quickly track down the terrorists before they leave the city.
* WhamShot: The Massachusetts State Police trooper standing over the covered corpse of eight-year-old victim Martin Richard for ''hours'' because moving him will disturb the crime scene and potentially obscure valuable evidence, and then saluting as he's loaded into an ambulance.

* WhamShot: The Massachusetts State Police trooper standing over the covered corpse of victim Martin Richard for ''hours'' because moving him will disturb the crime scene and potentially obscure valuable evidence, and then saluting as he's loaded into an ambulance.

* DoomedNewClothes: Dun Meng is introduced showing off his new SUV to his parents back in China. It gets destroyed during the Watertown shootout.

** Dun Meng was held hostage by the Tsarnev brothers for roughly 90 minutes. The movie makes it seem very brief, even though he tells Mark Wahlberg's character, "They drove me around for like an hour."

* BigBrotherBully: Tamerlan frequently criticizes Dzokhar and orders him around, even threatening to kill him at one point. The only time we see him offering him encouragement is during the shootout when he urges him to escape to go to New York to set more bombs.

* GhostCity: Overhead shots make Boston look like this on April 19, due to the governor ordering businesses closed the having people stay inside to help protect them while police track down the suspects..

* IHaveAFamily: Dun Meng tries to invoke this with the Tsarnev brothers when they take him prisoner. They snap at him to "Shut the fuck up."

* BasedOnATrueStory: A dramatization of the Boston Marathon Bombings of 2013, and the following manhunt for the bombers. The film was reportedly very accurate with regards to how the events unfolded. The only prominent exceptions are that Tommy and Carol Saunders are fictional characters, [[CompositeCharacter composites]] created to both simplify the film and also embody the viewpoint of ordinary law enforcement, and the addition of a tragic romance for murdered cop Sean Collier to make the audience empathize with him even more.

* ClusterFBomb: Pretty much every character, but understandable under the circumstances.

** The surrealness meter goes even higher when a civilian runs out, yells encouragement, and throws a sledgehammer to one of the officers.

* HollywoodHistory: This partly applies given the use of {{Composite Character}}s as well as giving Sean Collier a fictional girlfriend.

** Tommy gives a running list of the various Boylston Street businesses and restaurants whose security cameras could've caught the Tsarnaevs, going from [[https://www.crateandbarrel.com/stores/boylston-street/str216 Crate And Barrel]] to [[http://abeandlouies.com/ Abe & Louie's]] to [[http://www.backbaysocialclub.com/ Back Bay Social Club]], then a brief detour in the opposite direction to [[http://www.solasboston.com/ Solas]] before finally getting them on camera at [[http://www.whiskeysboston.com/ Whiskey's Steakhouse]].

''Patriots Day'' is a 2016 TrueCrime film directed by Creator/PeterBerg and starring Creator/MarkWahlberg, Creator/JKSimmons, Creator/JohnGoodman, Creator/MichelleMonaghan and Creator/KevinBacon dramatizing the UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} Marathon bombings of April 15, 2013 and the subsequent week-long relentless manhunt for the perpetrators.

* WouldHurtAChild: Despite clearly seeing a stroller, one of the brothers puts a bomb just a few feet away. Indeed, a little boy (not the one in the stroller) was one of the fatalities.

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: Zig-zagged. The film chooses to not even show the victims who died in the bombings out of respect, instead choosing to focus on developing true survivors. However, the film does spend time showing Officer Sean Collier in the days up to his murder by the terrorists.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: Refers to the Massachusetts state holiday when the Boston Marathon is always held, which also commemorates the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord which kicked off UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution and therefore is another fight against repression by Massachusetts residents.

* ForWantOfANail: Had Meng not stopped to text with a friend--as happened in RealLife--he would not have been taken hostage. He was able to escape and provide the police with enough information (including the GPS tracking number of the car they stole) to locate the terrorists before they could attempt another bombing at Times Square.

* GhostCity: Overhead shots make Boston look like this on April 19.

** After Dun Meng escapes and one brother screams to the other that they have to get out of there, the brother who is in the store starts to run, but turns back to drop the junk food he was going to buy. These two have committed terrorism, murder, and kidnapping... but apparently draw the line at theft.
** A friend of Dun Meng texts him to warn him to get home because it's dangerous to be out. He pulls over to respond--and is carjacked.

* RealityIsUnrealistic: As difficult as it is to believe, Dun Meng really did have his GPS tracking number memorized, which you would never have been able to get away with if this was a fictional story.

* MirandaRights: Averted in real life. Katherine Russell Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were questioned without being read their rights under the "public safety exemption" to ''Miranda''.

->''This is our fucking city, and ain't nobody going to dictate our freedom.''
-->--David Ortiz in his pre-game gratitude speech for defeating the Tsarnaevs, April 20, 2013.

''Patriots Day'' is a 2016 TrueCrime film directed by Creator/PeterBerg and starring Creator/MarkWahlberg, Creator/JKSimmons, Creator/JohnGoodman, Creator/MichelleMonaghan and Creator/KevinBacon dramatizing the UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} Marathon bombings of April 15, 2013 and the subsequent week-long relentless manhunt for the perpetrators. Although not a documentary by any means, with Wahlberg's co-protagonist being a fictional CompositeCharacter, the film is ''heavily'' TruthInTelevision in terms of both the actual attack and the dramatic aftermath.