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Our story features a wealthy couple, Tom Mullen (Creator/MelGibson) and his wife Kate (Creator/ReneRusso). Tom is the proud owner of an airline company and easily an ultra high net worth individual by 1996 standards. Shortly after their introduction to the audience, former employee Maris Conner (Lili Taylor) kidnaps their son Sean (Brawley Nolte). The film proceeds to introduce her accomplices, siblings and small-time crooks Clark (Creator/LievSchreiber) and Cubby (Donnie Wahlberg) Barnes, high-tech criminal Miles Roberts (Evan Handler) and mastermind Jimmy Shaker (Creator/GarySinise), a corrupt NYPD detective.
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Our story features a wealthy couple, Tom Mullen (Creator/MelGibson) and his wife Kate (Creator/ReneRusso). Tom is the proud owner of an airline company and easily an ultra high net worth individual by 1996 standards. Shortly after their introduction to the audience, former employee Maris Conner (Lili Taylor) kidnaps their son Sean (Brawley Nolte). The film proceeds to introduce her accomplices, siblings and small-time crooks Clark (Creator/LievSchreiber) and Cubby (Donnie Wahlberg) (Creator/DonnieWahlberg) Barnes, high-tech criminal Miles Roberts (Evan Handler) and mastermind Jimmy Shaker (Creator/GarySinise), a corrupt NYPD detective.
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Mullen isn't a knight in shining armor, but he does point out that he was dealing with someone who was going to kill his son anyway so he couldn't give in to his demands. Shaker doesn't want to hear it.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: Shaker raves at Mullen that he took a bullet to save his son... [[spoiler: a bullet he got from his own conspirators, who he was killing to make himself look good and who furthermore were trying to quit the plan and get away.]]
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* RevengeBeforeReason: Shaker devolves into this by the final fight.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Shaker is going to kill Tom's son when he get the ransom, but only because the boy can recognize them. He later loses this and takes beating Tom personally.
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** The kidnap ransom for Sean is only for 2 million, even though Mullen is worth far more, in order to keep things simple. This clues in that the person behind the kidnapping is a professional.
** Shaker is going to kill Tom's son when he get the ransom, but only because the boy can recognize them. He later loses this and takes beating Tom personally.
** The kidnap ransom for Sean is only for 2 million, even though Mullen is worth far more, in order to keep things simple. This clues in that the person behind the kidnapping is a professional.
** Shaker is going to kill Tom's son when he get the ransom, but only because the boy can recognize them. He later loses this and takes beating Tom personally.
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* RetiredBadass: Tom Mullen fought in over 20 combat missions for air force before retiring. It's also what inspired him to get in airline business.
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Our story features a wealthy couple, Tom Mullen (Creator/MelGibson) and his wife Kate (Creator/ReneRusso). Tom is the proud owner of an airline company and his fortune includes several millions. Shortly after their introduction to the audience, former employee Maris Conner (Lili Taylor) kidnaps their son Sean (Brawley Nolte). The film proceeds to introduce her accomplices, siblings and small-time crooks Clark (Creator/LievSchreiber) and Cubby (Donnie Wahlberg) Barnes, high-tech criminal Miles Roberts (Evan Handler) and mastermind Jimmy Shaker (Creator/GarySinise), a corrupt NYPD detective.
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Our story features a wealthy couple, Tom Mullen (Creator/MelGibson) and his wife Kate (Creator/ReneRusso). Tom is the proud owner of an airline company and his fortune includes several millions.easily an ultra high net worth individual by 1996 standards. Shortly after their introduction to the audience, former employee Maris Conner (Lili Taylor) kidnaps their son Sean (Brawley Nolte). The film proceeds to introduce her accomplices, siblings and small-time crooks Clark (Creator/LievSchreiber) and Cubby (Donnie Wahlberg) Barnes, high-tech criminal Miles Roberts (Evan Handler) and mastermind Jimmy Shaker (Creator/GarySinise), a corrupt NYPD detective.
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** When Mullen tries to deliver the ransom the first time, he is told that the cutout man will give him the information he needs to find Sean. After Tom hands over the money and asks for the information, the cutout man is completely confused. The Wham Line in particular is as simple as the man saying "What?"
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* VillainBall: [[spoiler: Had Shaker kept the conversation to a minimum when asking for the reward money, like not prodding Mullins on why he didn't pay the ransom for example, he might've been able to get the money and walk off into the sunset, no one being the wiser. Unfortunately for him, he couldn't control his obvious seething anger at being called "human garbage," and the fact that his talking causes Sean to recognize his voice as one of the kidnappers, resulting in Mullins putting 2 and 2 together.]]
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* VillainBall: [[spoiler: Had Shaker kept the conversation to a minimum when asking for the reward money, like not prodding Mullins on why he didn't pay the ransom for example, he might've been able to get the money and walk off into the sunset, no one being the wiser. Unfortunately for him, he couldn't control his obvious seething anger at being called "human garbage," and the fact that his talking causes Sean to recognize his voice as one of the kidnappers, resulting in Mullins putting 2 and 2 together. He also decides to swear he will come back for Sean just for the sake of keeping Mullins jumping at shadows for years to come, which seals his fate.]]
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* PopStarComposer: Aside from James Horner, the movie also features music composed by Billy Corgan of Music/TheSmashingPumpkins.
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* VillainBall: [[spoiler: Had Shaker kept the conversation to a minimum when asking for the reward money, like not prodding Mullins on why he didn't pay the ransom for example, he might've been able to get the money and walk off into the sunset, no one being the wiser. Unfortunately for him, he couldn't control his obvious seething anger at being called "human garbage," and the fact that his talking causes Sean to recognize his voice as one of the kidnappers, resulting in Mullins putting 2 and 2 together.]]
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* HateSink: There's no reason to like Shaker at the start of the film, but as events go on he becomes more of a jerk [[spoiler: doing things like shooting his own accomplices, taking insults from Mullen badly and threatening to kidnap the child again to spite Mullen. By the end of the film we're rooting for his death]].
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** [[spoiler: Shaker does this to his own acomplices as part of a new plan to get the ransom.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Shaker is cool, calm and coldly calculating for much of the film, but once his plan starts to unravel, he basically spends the entire second half of the movie slowly becoming more sloppy and violent, culminating in him shooting his fellow criminals, getting shot himself, and then dying in a ''very'' bloody fight and shootout because of mistakes he kept making, like not leaving as soon as possible]].
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* RealityEnsues: The televised ransom prompts 4,000 phone calls from people offering phoney leads, and each lead that looks plausible- no matter how wrong- results in another FBI agent wasting their time pursuing it rather than spending time working on the actual case.
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Cubby, the nicest of the kidnappers and the only one who was incessant that Sean be unharmed, is killed by the FBI in a shoot-out halfway through the movie, and bleeds out before he can tell Mullen anything.]]
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Cubby, the nicest of the kidnappers and the only one who was incessant insistent that Sean be unharmed, is killed by the FBI in a shoot-out halfway through the movie, and bleeds out before he can tell Mullen anything.]]
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* AlasPoorVillain: [[spoiler: Cubby, the nicest of the kidnappers and the only one who was incessant that Sean be unharmed, is killed by the FBI in a shoot-out halfway through the movie, and bleeds out before he can tell Mullen anything.]]
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* ToThePain: The "Will today be Jimmy Shaker Day?" speech is Shaker threatening to come back one day and kidnap and kill Sean for good for all the inconveniencing Tom put him through. The spirit of this trope is the fact Shaker points out that Cullen will keep fearing the day he comes back, jump at shadows and go overboard with security... which will make the eventual kill all the more sweet.
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "What were you gonna do with the videos? The kid's in a cocoon, for Christ's sake." ]]
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "What [[spoiler:"What were you gonna do with the videos? The kid's in a cocoon, for Christ's sake." ]]"]]
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "What were you gonna do with the videos? The kid's in a cocoon, for Christ's sake." ]]
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* Hypocrite: Shaker beats up Tom for calling him human garbage, when his actions in the film pretty much justify that statement. He also does it for hampering his plans and placing a bounty on him.
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* Hypocrite: {{Hypocrite}}: Shaker beats up Tom for calling him human garbage, when his actions in the film pretty much justify that statement. He also does it for hampering his plans and placing a bounty on him.
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** And earlier with Agent Hawkins when the latter sees that Tom is thinking about not paying:
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** And earlier with Agent Hawkins when the latter sees that Tom is thinking about not paying:paying, noting that seven out of ten times, he got a child back after their ransom was paid:
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--->'''Hawkins''': Tom, you've got to play the odds, man. I've been doing this for eighteen years, and if I were a betting man, I would bet on the people who pay every time, out of the gate.
--->'''Tom''': Did you bet on the ones where you got back a corpse?
--->'''Tom''': Did you bet on the ones where you got back a corpse?
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The movie was a massive success, the fifth-highest grossing film domestically in 1996, marking another high point in the blockbuster careers of both Gibson and Howard after both had a big presence at the Academy Awards earlier in the year, representing ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' and ''Film/Apollo13'', respectively.
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The movie was a massive success, the fifth-highest grossing film domestically in 1996, marking another high point in the blockbuster careers of both Gibson and Howard after both had a big presence at the Academy Awards earlier in the year, representing ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' and ''Film/Apollo13'', respectively.
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The movie was a massive success, the fifth-highest grossing film domestically in 1996, marking another high point in the blockbuster careers of both Gibson and Howard after both had a big presence at the Academy Awards earlier in the year, representing ''Film//{{Braveheart}}'' ''Film/{{Braveheart}}'' and ''Film/Apollo13'', respectively.
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The story proceeds in the familiar pattern of the original film for a while. Tom gathers the money, but not as ransom. He offers it as bounty for whoever arrests the kidnappers. Not long after, proceeding to double the price.
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The story proceeds in the familiar pattern of the original film for a while. Tom gathers the money, but not as ransom. He offers ransom, but turns it as into a bounty for whoever arrests on an instinct that he will not get his son back alive, turning the kidnappers. Not long after, proceeding kidnapping into a game of cat-and-mouse as both Tom and Shaker turn increasingly desperate to double get what they want.
The movie was a massive success, theprice.
fifth-highest grossing film domestically in 1996, marking another high point in the blockbuster careers of both Gibson and Howard after both had a big presence at the Academy Awards earlier in the year, representing ''Film//{{Braveheart}}'' and ''Film/Apollo13'', respectively.
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Tom to Shaker via broadcast, after revealing that the money is no longer up for a ransom demand.
-->'''Tom''': Congratulations, you've just become a two-million-dollar lottery ticket, except the odds are much, much better. Do you know anyone that wouldn't turn you in for two million dollars?
** And earlier with Agent Hawkins when the latter sees that Tom is thinking about not paying:
--->'''Hawkins''': Tom, you've got to play the odds, man. I've been doing this for eighteen years, and if I were a betting man, I would bet on the people who pay every time, out of the gate.
--->'''Tom''': Did you bet on the ones where you got back a corpse?
-->'''Tom''': Congratulations, you've just become a two-million-dollar lottery ticket, except the odds are much, much better. Do you know anyone that wouldn't turn you in for two million dollars?
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--->'''Hawkins''': Tom, you've got to play the odds, man. I've been doing this for eighteen years, and if I were a betting man, I would bet on the people who pay every time, out of the gate.
--->'''Tom''': Did you bet on the ones where you got back a corpse?
* TranquilFury: Shaker in the bar when Tom's broadcast airs.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Why Tom thinks he won't get back Sean even if he pays the ransom.
-->'''Tom''': Why would they ever let my son go, no matter what I do? I mean, no matter what I do; pay, don't pay, comply, tell him to go fuck himself, why would they give him back? I mean, he's a witness any way you cut it.
-->'''Tom''': Why would they ever let my son go, no matter what I do? I mean, no matter what I do; pay, don't pay, comply, tell him to go fuck himself, why would they give him back? I mean, he's a witness any way you cut it.
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** [[spoiler: Maris also tries to kill Shaker after he turns on the rest of the group. Thankfully his aim turns out to better than hers.]]
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** [[spoiler: Maris also tries to kill Shaker after he turns on the rest of the group. Thankfully Unfortunately for her, his aim turns out to better than hers.]]
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* AdultFear: Having your son kidnapped and threatened to be killed if you cannot provide the money. [[spoiler:Then getting a call from the kidnapper, angry that you decided to put the money as reward for his capture, and so he decides to shoot your son in retaliation and you get to hear him do it. And then the kid turns out alive, but the kidnapper comes to your house and forces you to give him the money at gunpoint, and threatens to come back some time in the future and take your son away again and kill him for good in revenge for the massive inconvenience you put him through...]]
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* DoWrongRight: Shaker comes across the kidnappers' hideout, apparently by mistake. He sneaks in, discovers the whole operation, surprises the only thug present and holds him at gunpoint. It looks like the kid is saved! Shaker then... scolds the thug for not protecting the hideout properly. He's a Dirty Cop, in fact the mastermind behind the kidnapping, and he merely tells his conspirator not to be so stupid in the future.
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* DoWrongRight: Shaker comes across the kidnappers' hideout, apparently by mistake. He sneaks in, discovers the whole operation, surprises the only thug present and holds him at gunpoint. It looks like the kid is saved! Shaker then... scolds the thug for not protecting the hideout properly. He's a Dirty Cop, DirtyCop, in fact the mastermind behind the kidnapping, and he merely tells his conspirator not to be so stupid in the future.
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* FakeKillScareFakeKillScare: Shaker calls Mullen and threatens to kill Sean if the latter doesn't gives him the money. Mullen pulls a PapaWolf rant and threatens to escalate instead (not only the reward but also hiring bounty hunters to find the man wherever he's in the world), for which Shaker retaliates by going to Sean's room, drawing his gun and shooting once with the handset near it. Mullen believes that Shaker has just killed his son and drops his phone in horror.
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** [[spoiler: when When he reveals himself to Tom, he accepts an offer of money and escape, but ominously warms that he'll come back for Tom's son one day for having screwed him over. This gets Tom riled up and gives him a beatdown.]]
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer shows Gary Sinse brandishing his gun and badge, but conceals the identity of the kidnapper, to let the audience assume he's playing a detective investigating the case.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer shows Gary Sinse Creator/GarySinise brandishing his gun and badge, but conceals the identity of the kidnapper, to let the audience assume he's playing a detective investigating the case.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer shows Gary Sinse brandishing his gun and badge, but conceals the identity of the kidnapper, to let the audience assume he's playing a detective investigating the case.
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* Hypocrite: Shaker beats up Tom for calling him human garbage, when his actions in the film pretty much justify that statement. He also does it for hampering his plans and placing a bounty on him.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: Shaker takes things practically, but when he loses control he seeks vengeance, which backfires on him.
** He shoots a gun while on the phone with Tom in an effort to break him by making him think he's shot his son, but this leaves him with no way to get his ransom now [[spoiler: and he must come up with a new plan, which involves him shooting his own people]].
** [[spoiler: when he reveals himself to Tom, he accepts an offer of money and escape, but ominously warms that he'll come back for Tom's son one day for having screwed him over. This gets Tom riled up and gives him a beatdown.]]
** He shoots a gun while on the phone with Tom in an effort to break him by making him think he's shot his son, but this leaves him with no way to get his ransom now [[spoiler: and he must come up with a new plan, which involves him shooting his own people]].
** [[spoiler: when he reveals himself to Tom, he accepts an offer of money and escape, but ominously warms that he'll come back for Tom's son one day for having screwed him over. This gets Tom riled up and gives him a beatdown.]]
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* PragmaticVillainy: Shaker is going to kill Tom's son when he get the ransom, but only because the boy can recognize them. He later loses this and takes beating Tom personally.
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* PhoneyCall: While pretending to call his private aircraft to fly Shaker out of the country, he actually places the call to the FBI so they'll know something is wrong.
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* PhoneyCall: While pretending to call his private aircraft to fly Shaker out of the country, he Mullen actually places the call to the FBI so they'll know something is wrong.
