History Film / GetTheGringo

** It's PeterStormare - with that kind of charisma, what'd you expect? In the few minutes we see him, he's shown ordering people's toes removed, ordering kills - and enjoying the Nine Dots brainteaser.

* MagnificentBastard: The Driver.

** Combat rolls and taking down a sniper with Beretta pistol? That's Film/LethalWeapon.
** The film shares so many things with Film/{{Payback}} that it can pass as SpiritualSuccessor.

* BottomlessMagazines: Not a really glaring example since there's not a ''whole'' lot of shooting from the same gun within a very short time period, but still no magazines are ever seen empty, and Driver doesn't pick up guns from fallen enemies when you expect him to pick them up.

* PetTheDog: Javi seems to actually care about family.

* WretchedHive: ''El Pueblito'' is a gigantic slum/prison hybrid, akin to the refugee camp at Bexhill in ''ChildrenOfMen''.

* HonorBeforeRason: Javi is told repeatedly that his cousin is a liability, and that he'd be better off killing him. He refuses, because he's family. [[spoiler:The cousin duly turns out to be exactly the liability he was feared to be, and ends up inadvertently helping bring Javi down.]]

* ChekhovsGun: As soon as you see Mel handling an umbrella, you know he's planned something.
** Chekhov's Knife: The knife The Kid has earlier. [[spoiler: In the end, he uses it trying to destroy his own liver, just so Javi can't get it]].

* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: The Kid stabs himself, trying to destroy his liver so that Javi can't get to it]].

* TheNameless: None of the three protagonists is actually named. The Driver gives several names, none of which appears to be real. Seldom is he actually believed when he does this, but no one who calls him on it is able to figure out the truth.

Also titled ''How I Spent My Summer Vacation'', this 2012 prison-set action thriller film sees Creator/MelGibson returning to the style of his earlier works, such as ''Film/MadMax''.

Gibson plays a nameless man credited only as "Driver", who has stolen a lot of money but gets caught with it as he attempts to cross the border into Mexico. Thrown into the slum-like prison village "El Pueblito", he needs to try and survive and get his money back, since its owners are keen on stopping him. Things get more complicated when his machinations are uncovered by an alert ten year old who appears to have some sort of connection to the prisoner who truly runs the place, Javi.

Released directly to video-on-demand services in the US, it was theatrically released elsewhere (such as the UK).

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** [[spoiler: If Driver's recurring dream actually happens, it places the ship magnate in the centre of this trope, as anything else he ever does on screen is affable]].

* [[spoiler: BiggerBad: Frank doesn't get much screentime, but is still established to be this.]]
* BlackAndGreyMorality: Mel's character, a thief and killer is only better than the rest because he's charming [[spoiler: and doesn't keep a kid alive just so he can get the liver once he needs it, like Javi does]]. The Kid is too young to have done anything really bad, and his mother's only offence was doing (and distributing) drugs. On the other side, we have killers, thieves and rapists, and everyone on the outside of the prison is corrupt.

* BottomlessMagazines: Not a really glaring example since there's not a WHOLE lot of shooting from the same gun within a very short time period, but still no magazines are ever seen empty, and Driver doesn't pick up guns from fallen enemies when you expect him to.

* TheNameless: None of the three protagonists are actually named. The Driver gives several names, none of which appear to be real. Seldom is he actually believed when he does this, but no one who calls him on it is able to figure out the truth.
* OneSceneWonder: As usual, PeterStormare steals the show whenever he's seen. Even if that ammounts to less than three minutes of screentime.

* SpiritualSuccessor: The film shares more than a few themes and shots with Mel's earlier film Payback.

** EverybodyDies, the ones that don't still get hurt very much.
* WretchedHive: ''El Pueblito'' is a gigantic slum/prison hybrid, akin to the refugee camp at Bexhill in ChildrenOfMen.

* SpiritualSuccessor: YourMileageMayVary, but the film shares more than a few themes and shots with Mel's earlier film Payback.

** [[spoiler: if Driver's recurring dream actually happens, it places the ship magnate in the centre of this trope, as anything else he ever does on screen is affable]].

** Main story: Mel's character gets left for dead somewhere (shot, in prison) and takes out the BigBad pyramid from the bottom up untill he's [[spoiler:and his love interst are the only ones left standing]].

Also titled ''How I Spent My Summer Vacation'', this 2012 prison-set action thriller film sees Creator/MelGibson returning to the style of his earlier works, such as MadMax.

* AffablyEvil: It's PeterStormare - with that kind of charisma, what'd you expect? In the few minutes we see him, he's shown ordering people's toes removed, ordering kills - and enjoying the Nine Dots brainteaser.

Also titled ''How I Spent My Summer Vacation'', this 2012 prison-set action thriller film sees MelGibson returning to the style of his earlier works, such as MadMax.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The trailer suggested (correctly) this film would be a return to form for Gibson.

* BottomlessMagazines: Not a really glaring example since there's not a WHOLE lot of shooting from the same gun within a very short time period, but still no magazines are ever seen empty.

* CheckovsGun: As soon as you see Mel handling an umbrella, you know he's planned something.
** Checkov's Knife: The knife The Kid has earlier. [[spoiler: In the end, he uses it trying to destroy his own liver, just so Javi can't get it]].

* KidSidekick: The Kid. {CaptainObvious(duh)}

* KidSidekick: The Kid. [CaptainObvious(duh)]

* KidSidekick: The Kid. [[CaptainObvious(duh)]]

* AnnoyingLittleSidekick: The Kid, though only in-universe. Due to his constant asking for cigarettes, and his refusal to share personal information, it takes a long time before Driver warms up to him.

* BiggerBad: Frank doesn't get much screentime, but is still established to be this.

** EverybodyDies, or at least gets hurt very much.