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* BatDeduction: Stone looks at the astrological symbol for Scorpio and exclaims, "what if it's a map?" Of course he turns out to be right.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Stone is a cantankerous prick throughout the movie. He goes out of his way to be a smartass to people, even to the extent of purposely ordering coffee in a bar. He's also the only person capable of stopping the alien.
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* GoodIsNotNice: Stone is a cantankerous prick throughout the movie. He goes out of his way to be a smartass to people, even to the extent of purposely ordering coffee in physically abusing a bar.fellow cop. He's also the only person capable of stopping the alien.
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* MustHaveCaffeine: Stone's preferred diet consists mainly of coffee with ''loads'' of sugar, a seemingly endless supply of chocolate treats, and anxiety. He's rarely seen consuming anything beyond those things.
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* MustHaveCaffeine: Stone's preferred diet consists mainly of coffee with ''loads'' of sugar, a seemingly endless supply of chocolate treats, and anxiety. He's rarely seen consuming anything beyond those things. We're told he's a recovering alcoholic, so the insistence on coffee is not for caffeine only, though.
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* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: The killer attacks Stone's partner but leaves Stone alive, then later stalks Michelle, wounds her, but doesn't kill her, and goes after another woman in the same building instead. There's no reason for any of this. Durkin has some throwaway lines about the killer "marking them" but nothing ever comes out of it.
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* XenomorphXerox: The monster is definitely inspired by the Xenomorphs, being a very large creature with an armored black exoskeleton, giant claws, and a smooth, somewhat elongated head lined with teeth.
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* XenomorphXerox: The monster is definitely inspired by the Xenomorphs, being a very large creature with an armored black exoskeleton, giant claws, and a smooth, somewhat slightly elongated head lined with teeth.teeth. It is somewhat more humanoid than a pure Xenomorph, always standing upright and lacking a tail.
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* MustHaveCaffeine: Stone's preferred diet consists mainly of coffee with ''loads'' of sugar, a seemingly endless supply of chocolate treats, and anxiety. He's rarely seen consuming anything beyond those things.
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* CreatorsCultureCarryover: The English characters use American names for objects and British Police procedure seems to be identical to American.
-->'''Durkin:''' I followed him down an alleyway -- he shot a trash can!
-->'''Durkin:''' I followed him down an alleyway -- he shot a trash can!
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* CynicismCatalyst: In a flashback it's shown how Stone was fairly well-composed before his partner was killed by the monster he has since been pursuing. Stone blamed himself (especially because he was having an affair with his partner's wife) and became a paranoid, rude [[CowboyCop gunslinger]] in response.
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* CynicismCatalyst: In a flashback flashback, it's shown how Stone was fairly well-composed before his partner was killed by the monster he has since been pursuing. Stone blamed himself (especially because he was having an affair with his partner's wife) and became a paranoid, rude [[CowboyCop gunslinger]] in response.
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* WeAllLiveInAmerica: The English characters use American names for objects and British Police procedure seems to be identical to American.
-->'''Durkin:''' I followed him down an alleyway -- he shot a trash can!
-->'''Durkin:''' I followed him down an alleyway -- he shot a trash can!
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* FailedFutureForecast: This dystopian sci-fi action movie predicted that London would become partially flooded by 2008 as a result of GlobalWarming, giving the monster in the film a place to hide in the mass of abandoned buildings and subway stations. Suffice it to say, this prediction was a bit off.
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* FailedFutureForecast: This dystopian sci-fi action movie predicted that London would become partially flooded by 2008 as a result of GlobalWarming, giving the monster in the film a place to hide in the mass of abandoned buildings and subway stations. Suffice it to say, this prediction was a bit off. (though only on the timescale, by current projections)
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* AwesomeMcCoolname:
** What better name for a CowboyCop than '''Harley Stone'''?
** And let's not forget the chief, Thrasher.
** What better name for a CowboyCop than '''Harley Stone'''?
** And let's not forget the chief, Thrasher.
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* {{BFG}}: Dick Durkin snaps and ends up demanding, literally, Bigger Fucking Guns. Big, Big ''Fucking'' guns, in fact. To the point where, when browsing the police armoury, he dismisses several weapons as 'Too fucking small', including an A3 Assault Rifle and an R1 Grenade Launcher (!)
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* {{BFG}}: Dick Durkin snaps and ends up demanding, literally, Bigger Fucking Guns. Big, Big ''Fucking'' guns, in fact. To the point where, when browsing the police armoury, he dismisses several weapons as 'Too fucking small', including an A3 Assault Rifle and an R1 Arwen Grenade Launcher (!)Launcher!
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* GonnaNeedMoreX: Dick Durkin demands more guns (specifically, Big Fucking Guns) after seeing the monster for the first time and consequently freaking out.
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* GonnaNeedMoreX: Dick Durkin demands more guns (specifically, [[BfG Big Fucking Guns) Guns]]) after seeing the monster for the first time and consequently freaking out.
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* DeweyDefeatsTruman: This dystopian sci-fi action movie predicted that London would become partially flooded by 2008 as a result of GlobalWarming, giving the monster in the film a place to hide in the mass of abandoned buildings and subway stations. Suffice it to say, this prediction was a bit off.
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* WalkingArmory: [[CowboyCop Charley Stone]] gets chewed out by [[DaChief Chief Thrasher]] for carrying enough weapons to mow down a crowd, but since he's hunting a NighInvulnerable alien monster, Stone is really being ProperlyParanoid.
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* WalkingArmory: [[CowboyCop Charley Harley Stone]] gets chewed out by [[DaChief Chief Thrasher]] for carrying enough weapons to mow down a crowd, but since he's hunting a NighInvulnerable alien monster, Stone is really being ProperlyParanoid.
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* DeweyDefeatsTruman: This dystopian sci-fi action movie predicted that London would become partially flooded by 2008 as a result of [[ClimateChange global warming]], giving the monster in the film a place to hide in the mass of abandoned buildings and subway stations. Suffice it to say, this prediction was a bit off.
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* DeweyDefeatsTruman: This dystopian sci-fi action movie predicted that London would become partially flooded by 2008 as a result of [[ClimateChange global warming]], GlobalWarming, giving the monster in the film a place to hide in the mass of abandoned buildings and subway stations. Suffice it to say, this prediction was a bit off.
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In the movie ''Split Second'', Harley Stone (played by Creator/RutgerHauer) is a [[CowboyCop cop who often flouts the rules]] working in a decaying, flooded London circa 2008 ([[DatedHistory the film was made in 1992]]), as [[ClimateChange global warming]] has caused sea levels to rise.
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In the movie ''Split Second'', Harley Stone (played by Creator/RutgerHauer) is a [[CowboyCop cop who often flouts the rules]] working in a decaying, flooded London circa 2008 ([[DatedHistory the film was made in 1992]]), as [[ClimateChange global warming]] Global Warming has caused sea levels to rise.
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* ClimateChange: Serves as a WorldBuilding plot point, as global warming has caused substantial flooding in London at high tides, turning it into even more of a WretchedHive with all the abandoned buildings and subway stations, the perfect place for criminals and nine-foot carnivorous rat-demons to hide out.
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* GlobalWarming: Serves as a WorldBuilding plot point, as global warming has caused substantial flooding in London at high tides, turning it into even more of a WretchedHive with all the abandoned buildings and subway stations, the perfect place for criminals and nine-foot carnivorous rat-demons to hide out.
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->'''Durkin:''' If I were a religious human being and not a reasoning person I think I am, I wouldn't say that this thing thinks it's Satan. I say it is Satan.
->'''Stone:''' Well, Satan is in deep shit!
In the movie ''Split Second'', Harley Stone (played by Creator/RutgerHauer) is a [[CowboyCop cop who often flouts the rules]] working in a decaying, flooded London circa 2008 ([[DatedHistory the film was made in 1992]]), as [[ClimateChange global warming]] has caused sea levels to rise.
A [[SerialKiller supernatural killer]] that Stone is convinced exists has returned, and it's [[IWorkAlone his mission]] to find the killer before anyone else dies. Unfortunately, his boss doesn't think he's stable enough to work without an assigned partner, Dick Durkin. Hilarity (and action-adventure) ensues.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AbsurdlySharpClaws: The creature uses its huge claw to shred through the roof of a subway train like a hot knife through butter. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=994DBK6gdw4#t=221s It has to be seen to be believed.]]
* AlliterativeName: Detective Dick Durkin.
* AndShowItToYou: In the climax, [[spoiler:Stone pulls out the monster's heart from its chest and blows it to smithereens with his gun. Interesting that it might not be overkill: the monster doesn't drop until the heart is destroyed]].
* AwesomeMcCoolname:
** What better name for a CowboyCop than '''Harley Stone'''?
** And let's not forget the chief, Thrasher.
* BadassLongcoat: Stone never goes anywhere without a leather trenchcoat to emphasize his badassitude as a CowboyCop.
* BeatStillMyHeart: [[spoiler:After Stone pulls out the monster's heart, it keeps beating.]]
* {{BFG}}: Dick Durkin snaps and ends up demanding, literally, Bigger Fucking Guns. Big, Big ''Fucking'' guns, in fact. To the point where, when browsing the police armoury, he dismisses several weapons as 'Too fucking small', including an A3 Assault Rifle and an R1 Grenade Launcher (!)
* BottomlessMagazines: The [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter Assault Shotguns]] that Stone and Durkin use are described as being fully automatic and firing 650 round a minute. Despite the only visible source of ammo being a small box magazine attached to the weapons, which could probably hold, at best, 30 Shotgun Shells, the pair fire off [[MoreDakka hundreds of rounds]] without ever once reloading. Noticeably, [[ExploringTheEvilLair when heading into the creature's hideout]], they ''don't even bother to bring any extra ammo with them''.
* ByTheBookCop: Dick Durkin is much more mindful of proper police procedure and much calmer than Stone due to his past education on killers and psychopaths. Subverted towards the end when he realizes that they're up against a supernatural monstrosity and he becomes just as gun-happy as Stone.
* CannibalismSuperpower: Durkin theorizes that the killer is a demon sent from Hell who eats the hearts of his victims to gain their strength, DNA, [[YourSoulIsMine and their souls]].
* ClimateChange: Serves as a WorldBuilding plot point, as global warming has caused substantial flooding in London at high tides, turning it into even more of a WretchedHive with all the abandoned buildings and subway stations, the perfect place for criminals and nine-foot carnivorous rat-demons to hide out.
* ConnectTheDeaths: The monster kills its victims in specific places in order to draw a dot-to-dot version of an astrological symbol on the city map.
* CoolShades: Harley has a pair. You never see it clearly for a long enough period to notice, but the creature also seems to have a pair too in the form of a wrap-around visor.
* CouldntFindAPen: The monster leaves behind a taunting message for Stone after brutally murdering a woman in a bathroom stall, written on the mirror in her blood: "I'M BACK".
* CowboyCop: Stone is a complete rundown of the trope: He's a multiple gun-toting hardass who treats everyone like crap, shoots first and asks questions later, pisses off DaChief and treats his by-the-book partner like a nuisance and gets the job done with superior firepower.
* CrapsackWorld: It's dark, it's flooded, there are rats ''everywhere'', there's a serial killer on the loose and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking Stone has a pigeon living in his apartment]].
* CyberpunkWithAChanceOfRain: ([[TheNineties Then-]]) future London, and so bad that a good chunk of it has long since flooded. You never even see the sun up until the final credits.
* CynicismCatalyst: In a flashback it's shown how Stone was fairly well-composed before his partner was killed by the monster he has since been pursuing. Stone blamed himself (especially because he was having an affair with his partner's wife) and became a paranoid, rude [[CowboyCop gunslinger]] in response.
* DaChief: Chief Thrasher (Yes, really), who spends most of his time trying to rein the violent and snarky [[CowboyCop Harley Stone]] in.
* DeadpanSnarker:
** Harley Stone. It helps that Rutger Hauer seems to naturally gravitate to playing characters this way.
--->'''Durkin''': Her heart? What for?\\
'''Stone''': Maybe he eats them for breakfast.
** When Stone and Durkin, both armed to the teeth, are confronted by DaChief who demands an explanation:
--->'''Durkin''': He's eating ''human hearts'' for Christ's sake!\\
'''Thrasher''': How do you know that?\\
'''Stone''': We had lunch with him.
** After more attempts by Thrasher to get an explanation of the killer's identity, he veers straight into TheNeidermeyer territory:
--->'''Thrasher''': Are you telling me there's some... ''thing'', running around loose in this city, ripping the hearts out of people and ''eating them''... so he can take their souls back to Hell?\\
'''Durkin''': (Beat) Looks that way.\\
'''Stone''': Hallelujah.\\
'''Thrasher''': You're both fucking nuts! What am I supposed to do? Put out an APB on some fucking guy who looks like the Devil? Answers to the name of Lucifer? I suppose he's got two fucking horns sticking out of his head, yeah! A long fucking tail! (Storming off in frustration) [[PrecisionFStrike Fucking out of the way with ya! Jesus Christ! You're a pair of pricks!]]
* DeadPartner: Stone lost his old partner Foster to the monster when they were both investigating the sewers. When Durkin asks DaChief if Stone has SurvivorsGuilt, he says that it's just plain guilt; Stone happened to be screwing Foster's wife at the time.
* DeweyDefeatsTruman: This dystopian sci-fi action movie predicted that London would become partially flooded by 2008 as a result of [[ClimateChange global warming]], giving the monster in the film a place to hide in the mass of abandoned buildings and subway stations. Suffice it to say, this prediction was a bit off.
* TheEndOrIsIt: When Stone and Durkin arrive to the creature's lair they try to not disturb a well-lit spot of the flooded tunnel because they assume it's a trap. When they manage to kill the creature and leave with Stone's girlfriend, bubbles start rising out of that very same spot...
* ExactWords: When Stone enters a club and asks for coffee, he's told that he has to order a minimum of two drinks. So he orders two coffees.
* FanserviceExtra: Stone visits a strip joint where he's convinced the killer will show up next (he's right), and briefly observes a stripper dressed in bondage gear.
* FingerInTheMail: A long-vanished SerialKiller returns and taunts the protagonist by sending him a metal briefcase that turns out to contain the heart of the first new victim packed in ice with a very large bite taken out of it.
* FloodedFutureWorld: The movie takes place in ([[DatedHistory then-]]) TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (in 2008), after the melting of the Arctic ice raised water levels around the world. The movie itself is set in a partially-flooded London, large portions of which have had to be abandoned to the rising waters.
* GatlingGood: The {{BFG}}s that Stone and Durkin bring along to the final fight are rotary-cannon [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter "assault shotguns"]].
* GonnaNeedMoreX: Dick Durkin demands more guns (specifically, Big Fucking Guns) after seeing the monster for the first time and consequently freaking out.
* GoodIsNotNice: Stone is a cantankerous prick throughout the movie. He goes out of his way to be a smartass to people, even to the extent of purposely ordering coffee in a bar. He's also the only person capable of stopping the alien.
* HandCannon: Stone's modified sidearm is ''massive'' -- and that's lampshaded by multiple characters calling it his personal cannon.
* ItCanThink: The 9 foot tall xenomorph-like creature is apparently capable of making financial transactions, walking around a nightclub without drawing attention to itself, and playing CriminalMindGames with the cops.
* ItsPersonal: Stone has a personal vendetta with the monster, as it previously killed his partner, sending Stone over the edge and turning him into his current cynical and anti-social self, and is constantly leaving him messages to fuck with him.
* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never clearly shown exactly what the creature's origins are, only that it seems to absorb [=DNA=] from its victims by eating their hearts, and that it also has rat [=DNA=]. A supernatural explanation is put forward as the one making the most sense, but that's only due to the absence of alternatives. Nothing overtly supernatural occurs in the film (the film's occult elements never exceed anything that wouldn't be out of place on, say, a Halloween or cult-focused episode of ''CSI'' or ''Law and Order''), though there are a couple things that defy explanation (see AndShowItToYou and PlotHole). It could just as easily be an alien, mutant, or genetic experiment.
* MoreDakka: Harley's arsenal. In spades. He has, among other weapons: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elwXnvoJIQ0 an MP-15, Glock 50, and an A-3 assault shotgun.]]
-->'''Thrasher''': I'm surprised you don't have a grenade launcher.\\
'''Stone''': I couldn't get a permit.
* MsFanservice:
** The nightclub stripper.
** Creator/KimCattrall's topless shower scene.
* NonAppearingTitle: The film seems to be called ''Split Second'' because that sounds cool. It has nothing to do with anything that happens in the film. Although ''Harley and Dick versus the Giant Demonic Mutant Rat in Futuretown'' was probably already taken.
* PlotHole: It is likely that the identity of the SerialKiller as being a giant [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]]-like monster was [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants decided on fairly late in production]], because a lot of the movie becomes nonsensical as a result. The alien is a nine-foot tall behemoth, yet no one in the night club noticed it walking around, while there's also a MurdererPOV shot shown at human eye level. It has giant claws, yet it can smear big letters on a mirror in blood. It can't talk, but somehow it paid someone to deliver a victim's heart to the police station. And so on.
* ProperlyParanoid: The Chief is initially wary of Stone being a paranoid menace, since he carries around a HandCannon and several other guns at all times. The very next scene involves him and the chief discovering that the heart of the killer's latest victim [[FingerInTheMail was delivered right to Stone's desk at the precinct]].
-->'''Stone:''' Paranoid, huh?
* PsychicPowers: Stone has a mysterious psychic connection to the killer; he can predict where he first strikes upon his return and sense his presence by hearing the killer's beating heart. Dick Durkin thinks it's because he's a Scorpio.
* RegularlyScheduledEvil: The alien monster kills its victims based on the lunar cycle, and only during high tides in the partially submerged city of London.
* ReliablyUnreliableGuns: Stone's Weapon is rendered conveniently useless in the climax when it's time for him to fight the monster.
* SerialKiller: Stone is pursuing a serial killer who cuts out his victims' hearts to eat them and has a personal vendetta with Stone. Subverted in that it turns out it is actually a giant monster with unexplained motives for killing people, although presumably intelligent.
* ShapeShifter: Heavily [[ImpliedTrope hinted at]], although never explicitly shown. The Killer is mentioned as having "Multiple Restriction Polymorphic DNA Strands", which include the DNA of all the people it has attacked and killed, plus rat DNA. It can do things which shouldn't be possible for a creature of its size and appearance (See PlotHole). Most glaringly, walking through a crowded nightclub and into a well-lit toilet to attack one of its victims. Possibly to avoid SpecialEffectFailure -- if a film states that a creature is a shapeshifter, the audience will reasonably expect to see it change shape on-screen at some point. The budget presumably wouldn't have supported this.
* ShowerScene: Michelle (Kim Cattrall) takes a shower at Stone's apartment, during which she is almost attacked by the alien monster.
* SkepticNoLonger: Detective Dick Durkin refuses to believe that the SerialKiller he and Harley Stone (his partner) are tracking isn't actually a human being at all, but rather some kind of monster. And then he runs face-to-face with the thing. Seeing the monster also leads to Durkin's line (and temporary MadnessMantra), "We need to get bigger guns!", which under the circumstances was a very rational reaction.
-->'''Stone:''' Did you see him?\\
'''Durkin:''' That wasn't a him, that was a fucking ''it''!
* SteelEardrums: Stone fires his HandCannon six inches from Durkin's face to shoot at a giant rat behind him. He's not half-deaf afterwards.
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The creature isn't revealed as such until near the end of the film -- before that, it is only fleetingly glimpsed and its attacks usually take place off-screen. So you wouldn't know that it wasn't a human, but rather a giant Xenomorph, Rat-Hybrid monster...Unless you'd seen the poster at the top of the page, which is also the box art on some releases of the film.
* WalkingArmory: [[CowboyCop Charley Stone]] gets chewed out by [[DaChief Chief Thrasher]] for carrying enough weapons to mow down a crowd, but since he's hunting a NighInvulnerable alien monster, Stone is really being ProperlyParanoid.
-->'''Trasher:''' How many weapons are you carrying besides this HandCannon I'm holding?\\
'''Stone:''' An M&P15... a Glock .50... and an A3 assault shotgun.\\
'''Trasher:''' I'm surprised you don't have a grenade launcher!\\
'''Stone:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Couldn't get a permit.]]
* WeAllLiveInAmerica: The English characters use American names for objects and British Police procedure seems to be identical to American.
-->'''Durkin:''' I followed him down an alleyway -- he shot a trash can!
* XenomorphXerox: The monster is definitely inspired by the Xenomorphs, being a very large creature with an armored black exoskeleton, giant claws, and a smooth, somewhat elongated head lined with teeth.
* YouDirtyRat: Despite not looking or acting like a rat, the creature is described as having Rat DNA, and one character who comes face-to-face with it calls it a '[[Creator/JamesCagney Rat Bastard]]' before taking a shot at it.
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