Line #48 Film/FullEclipse


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2	[[caption-width-right:300: There's a new police force on the streets...and they only come out at night.]]
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4	''Full Eclipse'' is a science fiction/horror/action film directed by Anthony Hickox that was released on Creator/{{HBO}} in 1993. It stars Mario Van Peebles as LAPD detective Max Dire, who is considering leaving the force after his wife accuses him of being too invested in the job and his partner Jim (Creator/TonyDenison) gets blown into the ICU following a botched hostage situation, comes out as "Film/DirtyHarry on crack" (as Max puts it) then blows his own head off in the middle of a cop bar. This brings Max to the attention of Adam Garou (Creator/BrucePayne), a high-ranking officer distinguished by his success in reducing crime in other big cities who invites him to join him and a group of other police officers who are experiencing similar problems. Turns out, the group is actually a special tactical unit specializing in brutal raids and assaults on criminals.
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6	Oh, and they're all werewolves.
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8	Max is brought into the fold by Garou's girlfriend, Casey Spencer (Patsy Kensit) who reveals that Garou has developed a serum that makes them all faster, stronger and more capable to take on the revved up criminals of Los Angeles. At first, Max dives headlong into the team's activities until he starts to realize that Garou may not be the benevolent cop he originally thought he was. As the full eclipse edges closer and Garou's plans near fruition, only Max stands in his way.
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10	The film received mixed to positive reviews upon its release and has become something of a cult classic. Bruce Payne's performance is generally looked upon as one of the best things about it, even today.
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13	!!This film provides examples of:
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15	* AFatherToHisMen: Severely averted. Garou has no qualms with basically raping one of the women under his command and treats all of them as expendable once the full eclipse hits.
16	* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler: Max calls out Jim's name as he injects a transformed Garou with a lethal silver nitrate drug cocktail in the climax.]]
17	* AteHisGun: [[spoiler: How Jim kills himself under the effects of Garou's serum.]]
18	* TheBadGuyWins: [[spoiler: Garou convinces Max to absorb his power and continue his quest to rid cities of crime and protect the innocent.]]
19	* BreakTheCutie: male example for Jim, see came back wrong for more details. He was originally one of the best and nicest characters in the movie.
20	* CameBackWrong: Max's partner Jim was about to retire and get married to his longtime girlfriend and was reluctant to follow Max into the Club Zero hostage situation in the opening of the film. [[spoiler: After Doug injects him with Garou's serum, the drug interaction with morphine, codeine and Demerol causes him to awake from his coma as an Main/AxCrazy Main/BigEater Main/CowboyCop that's eventually Main/DrivenToSuicide.]]
21	* ChekhovsGun: [[spoiler: Max creates a silver nitrate cocktail mixed with heavy concentrations of opioids to take down Garou after the same thing inadvertently happened to his partner.]]
22	* ChewingTheScenery: Garou is in love with this so much he may as well marry it.
23	* CowboyCop: Max has shades of this.
24	* CurbStompBattle: Anytime the Pack takes on criminals.
25	* DarkAndTroubledPast: Everyone on Garou's team:
26	** Garou's entire family was hunted down and slaughtered for being lycanthropes.
27	** Casey's husband was murdered during a home invasion that she failed to stop.
28	** Liza was attempting to stop a pimp from beating one of his prostitutes...[[Main/NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished she got a blade shoved in her back for her trouble]] and was stuck on a desk until Garou's serum returned her physical abilities to their peak.
29	** Perez's sister was killed in a gang war crossfire.
30	** Doug's gambling addiction cost him his savings, his home and his family.
31	* DecoyProtagonist: Jim.
32	* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Max takes on Garou in his full-giant wolf form during a full eclipse [[spoiler: and ''WINS!'']]
33	* DomesticAbuse: Garou and Casey's relationship
34	* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Jim can't handle the various coma drugs interacting with Garou's serum and shoots himself in the head in front of Max and all of their cop friends.]]
35	* FreudianExcuse: Garou relates how his family was hunted down and that he hated being a werewolf at first.
36	* GunsAkimbo: Max constantly thinks he's in a Creator/JohnWoo movie.
37	* HealingFactor: Garou's serum allows his team to heal from any wound instantly, even if they haven't taken it in a while.
38	* MauveShirt: Silvano and his two bodyguards who escape the drug lab raid and try to blow up Garou's team with a car bomb afterwards.
39	* TheNoseKnows: Garou is able to tell that Casey shot and had sex with Max just from smelling the blood he left on the carpet in his apartment.
40	* NoSell: Silvano thinks he's won when he attacks the Pack with a car bomb....then they emerge from the smoke and rubble transformed and ''pissed''.
41	* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Doug realizes injecting Jim with Garou's serum was this.
42	* OhCrap: Max and Perez's reaction when Garou fully transforms.
43	* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: Apparently, injecting brain fluid from a werewolf intravenously will give you their powers. Also, a full eclipse grants them NighInvulnerability.
44	* PainfulTransformation: The first couple of times Casey injects Max with the serum, it causes him considerable discomfort.
45	* PetTheDog: Doug going behind Garou's back to inject a comatose Jim with some of the serum is an example of this, although it turned out disastrously.
46	* PrecisionFStrike: One of Teague's henchmen utterly loses his shit when reporting about Max and Casey's raid on one of their warehouses.
47	-->'''Silvano:''' Special team?! They were ''FUCKING'' animals!
48	* PsychoSerum: Prolonged use of Garou's serum results in degraded, feral appearance and behavior.
49	-->'''Det. Tom Davies:''' I took it too many times. You can't go back! It strips your glands. Leaves you....unemployable.
50	* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Garou is the leader of "The Pack", thus every other member is firmly under his heel. [[spoiler: Once Max defeats him, he absorbs his power and becomes the new "top dog".]]
51	* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: It's implied through his story about his family and old newspaper clippings about what are assumed to be werewolf massacres that Garou is at least 150 years old!
52	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Doug tries to do this after seeing what the serum did to Jim but Garou won’t let him.
53	* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler: Detective Tom Davies is revealed as this for a former pack in Miami. He managed to escape when Garou killed them all during a full eclipse.]]
54	** At the end of the film, [[spoiler: Max]] is this for the LAPD pack.
55	* ThisWasHisTrueForm: When a werewolf dies, their body turns human again. Seen happening to [[spoiler:Detective Davies]] after Garou kills him with a SilverBullet.
56	* TooDumbToLive: After having watched Garou viciously kill [[spoiler: Doug]] for disobeying him and attempt to do the same to Casey, [[spoiler: Liza]] thinks the best thing to do when he goes after [[spoiler: Max]] is to try and stop him. Take a guess on how that works out...
57	* WellIntentionedExtremist: At his core, Garou is just a good cop who hates crime and wants to give back to the country that gave him a fresh start by cleaning up all of its major cities.
58	* WerewolfThemeNaming: Adam Garou, the leader of the werewolf pack, is named for ''loup-garou'', the French word for werewolf.
59	* WhamShot: In the second to last shot of the film [[spoiler: when Max's wife accidentally slices her finger cutting vegetables and it ''immediately heals!'']]

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