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* ActionGirl: Bruce, being played by Milla, although she only have two action scenes in the film. There's also policewoman Miao, who's recruited into the team together with Feng.

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* ActionGirl: Bruce, being played by Milla, although she only have has two action scenes in the film. There's also policewoman Miao, who's recruited into the team together with Feng.



* SpiderTank: In the climatic chase scene, Zhou Feng discovers that the vehicle assigned to his team can sprout mechanical, AT-AT like legs from its underside. Cue vehicle chase in Budapest.

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* SpiderTank: In the climatic climactic chase scene, Zhou Feng discovers that the vehicle assigned to his team can sprout mechanical, AT-AT like legs from its underside. Cue vehicle chase in Budapest.
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* ActorAllusion: A film starring Milla Jovovich that involves a killer virus strain about to be unleashed on the world’s populace. [[Film/ResidentEvil Sounds familiar]]…

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* ActorAllusion: A film starring Milla Jovovich that involves a killer virus strain about to be unleashed on the world’s populace. [[Film/ResidentEvil [[Film/ResidentEvilFilmSeries Sounds familiar]]…
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* ApocalpyseHow: Should Iron Fist succeed in unleashing the Green Virus across the world, the subsequent DepopulationBomb turning most of human population into plants would lead to a Class-2 example, which Feng and the heroes have to thwart.

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* ApocalpyseHow: ApocalypseHow: Should Iron Fist succeed in unleashing the [[ThePlague Green Virus Virus]] across the world, the subsequent DepopulationBomb turning most of human population into plants would lead to a Class-2 example, which Feng and the heroes have to thwart.
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* ApocalpyseHow: Should Iron Fist succeed in unleashing the Green Virus across the world, the subsequent DepopulationBomb turning most of human population into plants would lead to a Class-2 example, which Feng and the heroes have to thwart.


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* GaiasVengeance: The Green Virus, genetically engineered to turn human beings into plant life.
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Zhou Feng (Wang), an extreme sports lover, while attempting to film a viral stunt to be uploaded on Youtube, ends up accidentally crashing into a covert meeting of The Order of the Phantom Knighthood, a global peacekeeping organization who operates in secret. When elite agent Bruce (Milla) of the Knighthood considers Feng to have potential as an operative, Feng ends up becoming part of a team consisting of policewoman Miao, scientist Ding Shan and doctor LV. Before they knew it, these unlikely bunch of misfits will have to save the world from a madman and terrorsit leader who intends to release a deadly virus across the world.

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Zhou Feng (Wang), an extreme sports lover, while attempting to film a viral stunt to be uploaded on Youtube, ends up accidentally crashing into a covert meeting of The Order of the Phantom Knighthood, a global peacekeeping organization who operates in secret. When elite agent Bruce (Milla) of the Knighthood considers Feng to have potential as an operative, Feng ends up becoming part of a team consisting of policewoman Miao, scientist Ding Shan and doctor LV. Before they knew it, these unlikely bunch of misfits will have to save the world from a madman and terrorsit terrorist leader called Iron Fist ([[Series/IronFist2017 Not that one]]) who intends to release a deadly virus across the world.



* AdvertisedExtra: Given that Milla is the ''only'' member of the cast that counts as a celebrity, understandably the movie’s poster, trailers and promotional materiqals will hype up her presence in this film. She’s actually the {{Deuteragonist}} of the picture.

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* AdvertisedExtra: Given that Milla is the ''only'' member of the cast that counts as a celebrity, understandably the movie’s poster, trailers and promotional materiqals materials will hype up her presence in this film. She’s actually the {{Deuteragonist}} of the picture.



* OmnicidalManiac: A team that consists of Sports enthusiast Zhou Feng, an out-of-work police officer Miao, an amateur scientist Ding Shan and an unemployed doctor LV. With Bruce, the elite operative being the only capable member of the group.

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* OmnicidalManiac: A team Iron Fist doesn't care if the entire world's population gets wiped out of existence, believing that consists of Sports enthusiast Zhou Feng, an out-of-work police officer Miao, an amateur scientist Ding Shan and an unemployed doctor LV. With Bruce, he's doing earth a favour by saving the elite operative being the only capable member of the group.environment this way.



* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A team of operatives consisting of Zhou Feng the sports enthusiast, Miao a police officer, amateur scientist Ding Shan and unemployed doctor LV.

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* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A team that consists of operatives consisting of Sports enthusiast Zhou Feng the sports enthusiast, Miao a Feng, an out-of-work police officer, officer Miao, an amateur scientist Ding Shan and an unemployed doctor LV.LV. With Bruce, the elite operative being the only capable member of the group.
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* RedRightHand: Iron Fist’s mechanical right hand.

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* RedRightHand: Iron Fist’s mechanical right left hand.

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* ActionGirl: Bruce, being played by Milla, although she only have two action scenes in the film. There's also policewoman Miao, who's recruited into the team together with Feng.



* AllIsWellThatEndsWell: Iron Fist has been defeated, the world is saved, and it's a happy ending for all our heroes... never mind the fact that most of New York's population has been turned into plants and there isn't a reversible cure for the Green Virus. Yay?



* ThrowAwayCountry: The Green Virus is unleashed in the middle of New York, wiping out most of New York’s population… offscreen. Although there’s a scene showing multiple viral Website/YouTube videos of innocent people getting taken over by the virus.

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* ThrowAwayCountry: The Green Virus is unleashed ContrivedCoincidence: Feng, in the middle of New York, wiping out most of New York’s population… offscreen. Although there’s opening scene, coincidentally crashing into a scene showing multiple viral Website/YouTube videos of innocent people getting taken over by skyscraper's penthouse where the virus.Knighthood's covert meeting is being held, after a stunt gone wrong, which ends up leading to his enlistment into the organization.


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* ThrowAwayCountry: The Green Virus is unleashed in the middle of New York, wiping out most of New York’s population… offscreen. Although there’s a scene showing multiple viral Website/YouTube videos of innocent people getting taken over by the virus.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Hold on a second, Milla Jovovich in a Chinese movie?]]

''The Rookies'' is a 2019 Chinese [[GenreMashup action-comedy movie-slash-spy parody]] directed by Alan Yuen, starring Wang Ta-lu, Sandrine Pinna, and Creator/MillaJovovich in her Chinese film debut.

Zhou Feng (Wang), an extreme sports lover, while attempting to film a viral stunt to be uploaded on Youtube, ends up accidentally crashing into a covert meeting of The Order of the Phantom Knighthood, a global peacekeeping organization who operates in secret. When elite agent Bruce (Milla) of the Knighthood considers Feng to have potential as an operative, Feng ends up becoming part of a team consisting of policewoman Miao, scientist Ding Shan and doctor LV. Before they knew it, these unlikely bunch of misfits will have to save the world from a madman and terrorsit leader who intends to release a deadly virus across the world.

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!!This film contains examples of:

* ActorAllusion: A film starring Milla Jovovich that involves a killer virus strain about to be unleashed on the world’s populace. [[Film/ResidentEvil Sounds familiar]]…
* AdvertisedExtra: Given that Milla is the ''only'' member of the cast that counts as a celebrity, understandably the movie’s poster, trailers and promotional materiqals will hype up her presence in this film. She’s actually the {{Deuteragonist}} of the picture.
* BodyHorror: The effects of the Green Virus on humans, which causes their skin to sprout leaves, turn green, and their bodies to become stiff as they are forcefully turned into plants against their will. An early scene features several scientists subjected to this fate when the virus gets released on them.
* BoyishShortHair: Bruce.
* ThrowAwayCountry: The Green Virus is unleashed in the middle of New York, wiping out most of New York’s population… offscreen. Although there’s a scene showing multiple viral Website/YouTube videos of innocent people getting taken over by the virus.
* DoomsdayDevice: The Green Virus, coveted by Iron Fist’s syndicate to be unleashed across the world.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: Halfway through the film, Bruce gets shot through the gut and is reduced to a semi-comatose vegetable unable to speak, spending much of the movie’s second half out of action. Don’t worry Milla fans, she gets better.
* EcoTerrorist: The villains of the movie, led by Iron Fist, who deems human population as "unpure" and "contamination of the world’s resources", which they intend to cull by unleashing the Green Virus into major cities worldwide turning most of the global population into plants.
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Iron Fist, the BigBad, is a man with an iron fist for his left hand.
* {{Expy}}: Iron Fist to [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Dr. Claw]], right down to mannerisms, physical deformity, and being the leader of a global crime syndicate.
* FantasticRecruitmentDrive: This is how The Order of the Phantom Knighthood recruits their operatives, by selecting civilians deemed capable of their missions and sending them out without training.
* GenderBlenderName: Bruce, played by Milla Jovovich.
* OmnicidalManiac: A team that consists of Sports enthusiast Zhou Feng, an out-of-work police officer Miao, an amateur scientist Ding Shan and an unemployed doctor LV. With Bruce, the elite operative being the only capable member of the group.
* OnceForYesTwiceForNo: When Bruce gets paralyzed and is unable to even speak, she communicates with Zhou Feng and the rest of the team using this method.
* PressurePoint: By the end of the movie, Bruce is shown to have recovered from her paralysis, thanks to being subjected to Chinese acupuncture, where she communicates with Zhou Feng through video call while sprouting needles all over her face.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: A team of operatives consisting of Zhou Feng the sports enthusiast, Miao a police officer, amateur scientist Ding Shan and unemployed doctor LV.
* RedRightHand: Iron Fist’s mechanical right hand.
* SamusIsAGirl: Bruce, the elite operative of The Order of the Phantom Knighthood, turns out to be played by Milla Jovovich.
* SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou: [[https://media-cache.cinematerial.com/p/500x/iqbzbqd1/the-rookies-chinese-movie-poster.jpg?v=1562645822 Bruce]] does this on her own character poster. [[Film/ResidentEvilAfterlife Not a first for Milla]].
* SpiderTank: In the climatic chase scene, Zhou Feng discovers that the vehicle assigned to his team can sprout mechanical, AT-AT like legs from its underside. Cue vehicle chase in Budapest.
* {{Transflormation}}: The effects of the Green Virus on humans. The entirety of New York gets forcefully transformed into plants after being exposed to the virus, and Iron Fist intends to do the same on major cities all over the world.
* UnconventionalVehicleChase: Between a SpiderTank and the BigBad’s getaway vehicle.

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