History Film / BulletToTheHead

%% * AnAxeToGrind: When Keegan and Bobo finally do battle each other, they do it in the manner of [[Film/StreetsOfFire Tom Cody and Raven]].
%% --> '''Jimmy Bobo''': What are we, fuckin' Vikings?

** Jimmy himself is no slouch either, while being surprisingly fast for his size. His enemies are shocked by his pace at least twice .

* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: The entire film seems to run on the philosophy of having the main character solve all of his conflicts by killing people. It not always work as intended.
* WorldOfSnark: Jimmy, Taylor and Lisa seem to take part in some competition for more snarks per dialogue. Minor characters also has their moments.
* WorstAid: Keegan [[spoiler:pulled out a knife that Jimmy lodged in his throat]]. The wound itself was fatal already, but doing so would kill him before he could do anything. [[spoiler:Taylor shoot him before Keegan even managed to drop dead]].

* AnAxeToGrind: When Keegan and Bobo finally do battle each other, they do it in the manner of [[Film/StreetsOfFire Tom Cody and Raven]].
--> '''Jimmy Bobo''': What are we, fuckin' Vikings?
* AntiHero: Bobo is either this or an AntiVillain. It depends on your point-of-view.
* AxCrazy: Keegan, and with a healthy dose of BloodKnight.
* BigBad: Robert Kagomo Morel, the CorruptCorporateExecutive who killed our heroes' partners.

* CorruptCop: Bobo even lampshades this to Kwon, asking why he was a detective if he didn't catch this early on.

* TheDragon: Keegan, who's also DragonInChief to [[BigBad Morel]] and [[spoiler:later [[DragonAscendant ascends]].]]

* FilmNoir: Particularly in that Bobo is a professional criminal dealing with angst over his life choices and his own conscience.
* GoryDeadlyOverkillTitleOfFatalDeath
* {{Greed}}: The gang of the bad guys gets destroyed by this.

* LampshadeHanging: The film and its characters are ''very'' self-aware about own cheesiness and different clichés happening all over the place. That's probably its main redeeming factor.

* MsFanservice: Creator/SarahShahi as Lisa.

* PapaWolf: Touch Jimmy Bobo's daughter and he will end you.

* ProfessionalKiller: Jimmy, who openly declares that it's his job and he does it for living, whenever people like it or not.

* SacrificialLamb: Louis, WeHardlyKnewYe. Yet his death is enough to keep sizable part of the plot going.

* UndyingLoyalty: Most of the time Bobo is avenging his partner, Louis. And trying to get his money back.

''Bullet to the Head'' is a 2013 action film directed by Creator/WalterHill, starring Creator/SylvesterStallone as hitman Jimmy Bobo and Creator/SungKang as Detective Taylor Kwon. After their respective partners die, a New Orleans hitman and a Washington D.C. detective form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.

''Bullet to the Head'' is a 2013 action film, starring Creator/SylvesterStallone as hitman Jimmy Bobo and Creator/SungKang as Detective Taylor Kwon. After their respective partners die, a New Orleans hitman and a Washington D.C. detective form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.

''Bullet to the Head'' is a 2013 action film, starring Creator/SylvesterStallone as hitman Jimmy Bobo and Sung Kang as Detective Taylor Kwon. After their respective partners die, a New Orleans hitman and a Washington D.C. detective form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.

* MsFanservice: Sarah Shahi as Lisa.

* [[MySisterIsOffLimits My Daughter Is Off Limits]]: Literally. Bobo warns Kwon about this. [[spoiler:Of course, Kwon doesn't listen and begins to see her while in rehab after being shot in the same shoulder that he was shot earlier in the film and Lisa helped in taking out the bullet. Bobo is not amused.]]

Not to be confused with the Creator/JohnWoo classic ''Bullet in the Head''.

* ChekhovsGun: In form of literal gun. Jimmy managed to unload a mag from the gun of his contact before confronting him. After a tense moment the contact of course goes for his gun and tries to shoot Bobo InTheBack. Jimmy instantly presents the mag, dropping the line of bullets, not guns, killing people. Then his own gun jams and he's forced into a brawl with the contact. In the end he collects both the mag and pistol, reloads and instantly shoots the traitor.
* CorruptCop: Bobo even lampshades this to Kwon, asking why he was a Detective if he didn't catch this early on.

* LampshadeHanging: The film and it's characters are ''very'' self-aware about own cheesiness and different clichés happening all over the place. That's probably its main redeeming factor.
* LetOffByTheDetective: In the end, Taylor warms Jimmy that he will arrest him for any future crime and let him go just like that. It's not that Jimmy managed to plow his way through the film, leaving dozens of bodies behind and Taylor watched it all.

** Jimmy himself is no slouch either, while being suprisingly fast for his size. His enemies are shocked by his pace at least twice .

* [[MySisterIsOffLimits My Daughter Is Off Limits]]: Literally. Bobo warns Kwon about this. [[spoiler:Of course, Kwon doesn't listen and begins to see her while rehabing from being shot in the same shoulder that he was shot earlier in the film and Lisa helped in taking out the bullet. Bobo is not amused.]]

* WorstAid: Keegan [[spoiler:pulled out a knife that Jimmy lodged in his throat]]. The wound itself was fatat already, but doing so would kill him before he could do anything. [[spoiler:Taylor shoot him before Keegan even managed to drop dead]].

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Morel decides that Bobo and Kwon only made him a favour by kidnapping Baptiste. When he is giving instructions to {{Mooks}}, he openly declares that Mr. Baptiste can bite dust in the process of reclaiming his data, since he already helped to make all the important deals and now is nothing more than a liability.