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* DesignatedHero: Even with the film choosing to portray him as an anti-hero on a revenge killing spree, the simple fact of the matter is that ''H's son's murder is his own fault.'' He should NOT have brought him along when all he had to do was have the teen wait another fifteen minutes at the apartment. If his son had been a small child, then it actually would've made more sense; small children cannot be left without a parental guardian, but his son was ''nineteen years old'' and could easily have just gone back inside to wait, so all of H's self-righteous anger is ridiculous when it's literally his own fault his son is shot to death.
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* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: The film hired an amazing character actor, Josh Hartnett, and then proceeded to do absolutely ''nothing'' with his character. The character has no arc whatsoever and just needlessly dies with the rest of the crew over money that was already established to be insured and that did not belong to any of them.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: H's general hypocrisy over the situation--being angry and killing everyone when he is responsible for his son's death by bringing him along on something that was potentially dangerous and the kid was old enough to simply have waited for him to return--plus the generic, unlikable crew makes it rather hard to get invested in the story nor in the characters. Statham's charm is also totally absent from the performance since it treats itself as a dead serious drama, so the bleak tone isn't even lightened by one-liners and quips, sadly.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: H's general hypocrisy over the situation--being angry and killing everyone when he is responsible for his son's death by bringing him along on something that was potentially dangerous and the kid was old enough to simply have waited for him to return--plus the generic, unlikable crew makes it rather hard to get invested in the story nor in the characters. Statham's charm is also totally absent from the performance since it treats itself as a dead serious drama, so the bleak tone isn't even lightened by one-liners and quips, sadly.
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* JerkassWoobie: Dana. She did steal some money in the past, but it's not hard to feel sorry for her at times. She gets disrespected at work, threatened with death by H after a one-night stand with him, has her family threatened, and [[spoiler:gets unceremoniously shot by a trusted friend in the climax.]]
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* MagnificentBastard: [[VillainProtagonist Heargraves]] is a vengeful crime lord who masterminds a massive part of the story to [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes avenge the death of his son Dougie]]. Running a smooth operation of criminals and gangs in Los Angeles, Heargraves began a rampage through the underworld when Dougie is shot dead by armored truck robbers. Heargraves would torture and bribe anyone in his path to finding Dougie's killer, while still showing a personal disgust at a group of HumanTraffickers who he interrogates for information then personally murders the lot of. Eventually going undercover as [[AntiHero Patrick "H" Hill]] at the Fortico armored truck company, Heargraves lays traps for truck robbers to draw out the gang who did in Dougie, and--after investigating and threatening several members of Fortico into compliance with his scheme--lures Jackson's gang to attack Fortico so Heargraves can wipe out the lot of them as well as Jan, the one who killed his son. Even when seemingly killed in the gunfight, Heargraves survives through [[{{Determinator}} sheer will]], tracks down Jan at the height of his success, and ruthlessly shoots the criminal in all the places Dougie was shot when he died, exacting vengeance upon Jan while solidifying his control over Los Angeles by paying off federal agents with Jan's own fortune.
* SpiritualAdaptation: Many are already considering the film one for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', considering the film's focus around heists. Furthermore, one could consider it a fusion of that and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', considering its other focus on gangsters and revenge.
* SpiritualAdaptation: Many are already considering the film one for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', considering the film's focus around heists. Furthermore, one could consider it a fusion of that and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', considering its other focus on gangsters and revenge.
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* MagnificentBastard: [[VillainProtagonist Heargraves]] is a vengeful crime lord who masterminds a massive part of the story to [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes avenge the death of his son Dougie]]. Running a smooth operation of criminals and gangs in Los Angeles, UsefulNotes/LosAngeles, Heargraves began a rampage through the underworld when Dougie is shot dead by armored truck robbers. Heargraves would torture and bribe anyone in his path to finding Dougie's killer, while still showing a personal disgust at a group of HumanTraffickers who he interrogates for information then personally murders the lot of. Eventually going undercover as [[AntiHero Patrick "H" Hill]] at the Fortico armored truck company, Heargraves lays traps for truck robbers to draw out the gang who did in Dougie, and--after investigating and threatening several members of Fortico into compliance with his scheme--lures Jackson's gang to attack Fortico so Heargraves can wipe out the lot of them as well as Jan, the one who killed his son. Even when seemingly killed in the gunfight, Heargraves survives through [[{{Determinator}} sheer will]], tracks down Jan at the height of his success, and ruthlessly shoots the criminal in all the places Dougie was shot when he died, exacting vengeance upon Jan while solidifying his control over Los Angeles by paying off federal agents with Jan's own fortune.
* SpiritualAdaptation: Many are already considering the film one for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', considering the film's focus around heists. Furthermore, one could consider it a fusion of that and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', considering its other focus on gangsters andrevenge.revenge.
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* SpiritualAdaptation: Many are already considering the film one for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', considering the film's focus around heists. Furthermore, one could consider it a fusion of that and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', considering its other focus on gangsters and
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* MagnificentBastard: [[VillainProtagonist Heargraves]] is a vengeful crime lord who masterminds a massive part of the story to [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes avenge the death of his son Dougie]]. Running a smooth operation of criminals and gangs in Los Angeles, Heargraves began a rampage through the underworld when Dougie is shot dead by armored truck robbers. Heargraves would torture and bribe anyone in his path to finding Dougie's killer, while still showing a personal disgust at a group of HumanTraffickers who he interrogates for information then personally murders the lot of. Eventually going undercover as [[AntiHero Patrick "H" Hill]] at the Fortico armored truck company, Heargraves lays traps for truck robbers to draw out the gang who did in Dougie, and--after investigating and threatening several members of Fortico into compliance with his scheme--lures Jackson's gang to attack Fortico so Heargraves can wipe out the lot of them as well as Jan, the one who killed his son. Even when seemingly killed in the gunfight, Heargraves survives through [[{{Determinator}} sheer will]], tracks down Jan at the height of his success, and ruthlessly shoots the criminal in all the places Dougie was shot when he died, exacting vengeance upon Jan while solidifying his control over Los Angeles by paying off federal agents with Jan's own fortune.
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* SpiritualAdaptation: Many are already considering the film one for ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', considering the film's focus around heists. Furthermore, one could consider it a fusion of that and ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', considering its other focus on gangsters and revenge.
