History Film / TheKillerElite

* RockStarParking: Averted; Mac has to drop Locken off and circle the block until a parking space becomes free. On the other hand the parking space he does find is conveniently right outside the door for the subsequent shoot-out and escape.

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Yuen is referred to as Chinese, but it's not made clear whether the country he's returning to is Communist China or Taiwan (he has a Taiwanese flag in his safehouse, but some of his dialogue seems to suggest he's from the Mainland). He can also fight with a katana well enough to defeat Toku, a Japanese ninja master. To further complicate matters, he dresses in ninja gear during the climax and wields a ''shuriken'', he's played by Japanese actor {{Creator/Mako}}, and his daughter Tommie (who's played by a Vietnamese actress) has a Japanese name (富江). Though see Accidentally Correct Writing in [[Trivia/TheKillerElite Trivia]].

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Yuen is referred to as Chinese, but it's not made clear whether the country he's returning to is Communist China or Taiwan (he has a Taiwanese flag in his safehouse, but some of his dialogue seems to suggest he's from the Mainland). He can also fight with a katana well enough to defeat Toku, a Japanese ninja master. To further complicate matters, he dresses in ninja gear during the climax and wields a ''shuriken'', he's played by Japanese actor {{Creator/Mako}}, and his daughter Tommie (who's played by a Vietnamese actress) has a Japanese name (富江). Though see AccidentallyCorrectWriting in [[Trivia/TheKillerElite Trivia]].

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Yuen is referred to as Chinese, but it's not made clear whether the country he's returning to is Communist China or Taiwan (he has a Taiwanese flag in his safehouse, but some of his dialogue seems to suggest he's from the Mainland). He can also fight with a katana well enough to defeat Toku, a Japanese ninja master. To further complicate matters, he dresses in ninja gear during the climax and wields a ''shuriken'', he's played by Japanese actor {{Creator/Mako}}, and his daughter Tommie (who's played by a Vietnamese actress) has a Japanese name (富江).
** Possibly a case of AccidentallyCorrectWriting, see [[YMMV/TheKillerElite YMMV]].

* ItsWhatIDo: Mac points out that Weyburn is NotSoDifferent from Cap, so Locken should just walk away from [=ComTeg=] and retire like he did. Weyburn points out that a man like Locken has nothing else but his job.

''The Killer Elite'' is a 1975 American action film starring Creator/JamesCaan and Creator/RobertDuvall and directed by Creator/SamPeckinpah.

* YouDontWantToDieAVirginDoYou: Averted; Tommie casually reveals to Locken that she's a virgin. Realising where she's heading with this, Locken abruptly cuts her off.

** Possibly a case of AccidentallyCorrectWriting, see YMMV.

* InterchangeableAsianCultures: Yuen is referred to as Chinese, but it's not made clear whether the country he's returning to is Communist China or Taiwan. He can also fight with a katana well enough to defeat Toku, a Japanese ninja master. To further complicate matters, he dresses in ninja gear during the climax and wields a ''shuriken'', he's played by Japanese actor {{Creator/Mako}}, and his daughter Tommie has a Japanese name (富江).

Mike Locken (Caan) and George Hansen (Duvall) work for private intelligence agency [=ComTeg=] (Communications Integrity) handling deniable operations for the CIA, among other clients. The two are best friends, which doesn't stop Hansen from wounding Locken and murdering an Eastern European defector that they're guarding. After a lengthy and difficult rehabilitation, Locken is eager for {{revenge}} but his boss Cap Collis (Arthur Hill) is not interested, assuming that Locken is useless for anything but a desk job. He's overruled by the CEO of [=ComTeg=], Lawrence Weyburn (Gig Young), who hears that Hansen has been assigned to kill visiting Asian dissident Yuen Chung (played by Creator/{{Mako}}). Locken recruits two former colleagues, Jerome Miller (Bo Hopkins) (as [[TheGunslinger rear gunner]]) and Mac (Tom Clancy) (as [[BadassDriver wheelman]]). Cap however has his own agenda.