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''Give 'Em Hell, Malone'' is a 2009 [[FilmNoir Neo-Noir film]] produced by Russell Mulcahy, who also brought us ''Film/{{Razorback}}'' and ''Film/{{Highlander}}''. It stars Creator/ThomasJane, Creator/VingRhames and Elsa Pataky.
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''Give 'Em Hell, Malone'' is a 2009 [[FilmNoir Neo-Noir film]] produced by Russell Mulcahy, who also brought us ''Film/{{Razorback}}'' and ''Film/{{Highlander}}''. It stars Creator/ThomasJane, Creator/VingRhames and Elsa Pataky.
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* LegFocus: There are some MaleGaze shots that show off Evelyn's legs, especially since she likes dressing in a way that exposes them.
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* RevolversAreJustBetter: Malone's gun of choice is a [[RareGuns Mateba Model 6 Unica.]]
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Malone (Jane) is a former private eye, who has turned gun for hire. One day, he receives a job to retrieve a briefcase from a hotel but he the finds the building is filled with armed gangsters. After a violent shootout with the mobsters, of which Malone is the [[SoleSurvivor lone survivor]], he manages to get the case. Suspecting that the job was a set up, he returns to his handler, Murphy (Creator/LelandOrser), to find out who hired him. It turns out it was the beautiful Evelyn (Pataky) who hired Malone to steal the case from a gang controlled by the local crime lord, Whitmore (Gregory Harrison), as she needs it to [[HostageForMacGuffin trade for her brother whom Whitmore is holding hostage.]]
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Malone (Jane) is a former private eye, who has turned gun for hire. One day, he receives a job to retrieve a briefcase from a hotel but he the finds the building is filled with armed gangsters. After a violent shootout with the mobsters, of which Malone is the [[SoleSurvivor lone survivor]], he manages to get the case. Suspecting that the job was a set up, he returns to his handler, Murphy (Creator/LelandOrser), to find out who hired him. It turns out it was the beautiful Evelyn (Pataky) who hired Malone to steal the case from a gang controlled by the local crime lord, Whitmore (Gregory Harrison), (Creator/GregoryHarrison), as she needs it to [[HostageForMacGuffin trade for her brother whom Whitmore is holding hostage.]]
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Malone (Jane) is a former private eye, who has turned gun for hire. One day, he receives a job to retrieve a briefcase from a hotel but he the finds the building is filled with armed gangsters. After a violent shootout with the mobsters, of which Malone is the [[SoleSurvivor lone survivor]], he manages to get the case. Suspecting that the job was a set up, he returns to his handler, Murphy, to find out who hired him. It turns out it was the beautiful Evelyn (Pataky) who hired Malone to steal the case from a gang controlled by the local crime lord, Whitmore, as she needs it to [[HostageForMacGuffin trade for her brother whom Whitmore is holding hostage.]]
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Malone (Jane) is a former private eye, who has turned gun for hire. One day, he receives a job to retrieve a briefcase from a hotel but he the finds the building is filled with armed gangsters. After a violent shootout with the mobsters, of which Malone is the [[SoleSurvivor lone survivor]], he manages to get the case. Suspecting that the job was a set up, he returns to his handler, Murphy, Murphy (Creator/LelandOrser), to find out who hired him. It turns out it was the beautiful Evelyn (Pataky) who hired Malone to steal the case from a gang controlled by the local crime lord, Whitmore, Whitmore (Gregory Harrison), as she needs it to [[HostageForMacGuffin trade for her brother whom Whitmore is holding hostage.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Boulder accepts that his wife will never wake up and, when he becomes the last surviving member of Whitmore's syndicate, he turns on Whitmore and lets Malone kill him. Afterward, he and Malone bury the hatchet.]]
-->'''Malone''': To not being dead.
-->'''Malone''': To not being dead.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:In a last-ditch bid to save his life, Whitmore tries to strike a bargain with Malone to reveal the location of his family. Malone instead pumps two bullets into him with a PreMortemOneLiner.]]
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* BadBoss: Whitmore, and ''how''. He doesn't just blackmail his [[TheDragon Dragon]] with the life of his ailing wife, [[spoiler:he successfully tricks Malone into wiping out his ''entire syndicate''. Unwilling to take the fall for his many, many crimes, Whitmore decides to go "legit" by having every single person who knows about his criminal history slaughtered and trying to pin the deeds on Malone. [[LaserGuidedKarma This behavior is ultimately his downfall]]; seeing with his own eyes how disposable he is to Whitmore, [[TheDogBitesBack Boulder beats down Whitmore with his own baseball bat and allows Malone to finish him off]]]].
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* BadBoss: Whitmore, and ''how''. He doesn't just blackmail his [[TheDragon Dragon]] with the life of his ailing wife, [[spoiler:he successfully tricks Malone into wiping out his ''entire syndicate''. Unwilling to take the fall for his many, many crimes, Whitmore decides to go "legit" by having every single person who knows about his criminal history slaughtered and trying to pin the deeds on Malone.Malone--this includes his own pregnant lover, whom Whitmore icily guns down himself. [[LaserGuidedKarma This behavior is ultimately his downfall]]; seeing with his own eyes how disposable he is to Whitmore, [[TheDogBitesBack Boulder beats down Whitmore with his own baseball bat and allows Malone to finish him off]]]].
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* BadBoss: Whitmore, and ''how''. He doesn't just blackmail his [[TheDragon Dragon]] with the life of his ailing wife, [[spoiler:he successfully tricks Malone into wiping out his ''entire syndicate''. Unwilling to take the fall for his many, many crimes, Whitmore decides to go "legit" by having every single person who knows about his criminal history slaughtered and trying to pin the deeds on Malone. [[LaserGuidedKarma This behavior is ultimately his downfall]]; seeing with his own eyes how disposable he is to Whitmore, [[TheDogBitesBack Boulder beats down Whitmore with his own baseball bat and allows Malone to finish him off]]]].
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* BladeEnthusiast: Mauler is literally armed to the teeth with various blades and eschews guns. Her actress describes her as "a sinister Asian Creator/{{Shirley Temple}}-ish knife-wielding crazy delusional girl".
-->'''Boulder''': The Mauler? Have you seen where she keeps her knives?
-->'''Boulder''': The Mauler? Have you seen where she keeps her knives?
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* KnifeNut: Mauler is literally armed to the teeth with various blades and eschews guns. Her actress describes her as "a sinister Asian Creator/{{Shirley Temple}}-ish knife-wielding crazy delusional girl".
-->'''Boulder''': The Mauler? Have you seen where she keeps her knives?
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* PsychoForHire: Despite Boulder's consternation, Whitmore hires [[PyroManiac Matchstick]] and [[KnifeNut Mauler]] to take out Malone and retrieve the case, outright calling them {{sadist}}s.
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* PsychoForHire: Despite Boulder's consternation, Whitmore hires [[PyroManiac Matchstick]] and [[KnifeNut [[BladeEnthusiast Mauler]] to take out Malone and retrieve the case, outright calling them {{sadist}}s.
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* AffectionateParody: Of FilmNoir and the tropes common to the HardboiledDetective in particular. It's mostly a loving {{Homage}} to the Franchise/DickTracy-type over-the-top take on the genre...and then you get to the retirement home scenes.
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* AffectionateParody: Of FilmNoir and the tropes common to the HardboiledDetective in particular. It's mostly a loving {{Homage}} to the Franchise/DickTracy-type ComicStrip/DickTracy-type over-the-top take on the genre...and then you get to the retirement home scenes.
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* CuteAndPsycho: Mauler is introduced wearing GirlishPigtails and a school uniform. What she does next to a poor schmuck is... [[{{understatement}} unpleasant]].
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* ActionPrologue: The first ten minutes of the movie depicts Malone in the middle of a shootout against plenty of mooks, which he emerged victorious.
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* DestinationDefenestration: Malone's very first onscreen kill, a mook he shot out of a window which happens right in the first two seconds of the film.
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* CoolCar: Malone drives a 1952 Chop Top Buick Straight 8, a suitable car for a noir hero.
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** Whitmore is the only one to express any doubt on anybody to rip the heart out of a chest [[spoiler: because he knows Malone's backstory is false.]]
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** Whitmore is the only one to express any doubt on anybody being able to rip the heart out of a chest [[spoiler: because he knows Malone's backstory is false.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Whitemore's hostage, Sammy says a very confused "sister?" before dying, a hint that he is not Evelyn's brother.]]
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** Whitmore is the only one to express any doubt on anybody to rip the heart out of a chest [[spoiler: because he knows Malone's backstory is false.]]
** [[spoiler: Whitemore's hostage, Sammy says a very confused "sister?" before dying, a hint that he is not Evelyn's brother.]]
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* PresentCompanyExcluded: Whitmore goes into a rant about how all the men working for him want to take all his money:
-->'''Whitmore''': Look at those happy shmucks. Three hundred dollars, and they're king for an hour. Meanwhile, I'm a paying out millions of dollars a year in payroll to a bunch of two-bit crooks who make me feel like a fucking court jester.\\
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'''Whitmore''': Present company excluded, of course.
-->'''Whitmore''': Look at those happy shmucks. Three hundred dollars, and they're king for an hour. Meanwhile, I'm a paying out millions of dollars a year in payroll to a bunch of two-bit crooks who make me feel like a fucking court jester.\\
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'''Whitmore''': Present company excluded, of course.
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Give 'Em Hell, Malone is a 2009 [[FilmNoir Neo-Noir film]] produced by Russell Mulcahy, who also brought us ''Film/{{Razorback}}'' and ''Film/{{Highlander}}''. It starsCreator/ThomasJane, stars Creator/ThomasJane, Creator/VingRhames and Elsa Pataky.
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Malone (Jane) is a former private eye, who has turned gun for hire. One day, he receives a job to retrieve a briefcase from a hotel but he the finds the building is filled with armed gangsters. After a violent shootout with the mobsters, of which Malone is the [[SoleSurvivor lone survivor]], he manages to get the case and suspecting case. Suspecting that the job was a set up, he returns to his handler, Murphy, to find out who hired him. It turns out it was the beautiful Evelyn (Pataky) who hired Malone to steal the case from a gang controlled by the local crime lord, Whitmore, as she needs it to [[HostageForMacGuffin trade for her brother whom Whitmore is holding hostage.]]
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Give 'Em Hell, Malone is a 2009 [[FilmNoir Neo-Noir film]] produced by Russell Mulcahy, who also brought us ''Film/{{Razorback}}'' and ''Film/{{Highlander}}''.
Malone is hired to retrieve a briefcase from a hotel but he the finds the building is filled with armed gangsters. He manages to get the case and suspecting that the job was a set up, he returns to his handler, Murphy, to find out who hired him. It turns out it was the beautiful Evelyn who hired Malone to steal the case from a gang controlled by the local crime lord, Whitmore, as she needs it to [[HostageForMacGuffin trade for her brother whom Whitmore is holding hostage.]]
Meanwhile Whitmore learns that the case has been taken and is furious. He puts a five million bounty on Malone and brings in the local PsychosForHire to retrieve the case.
Malone is hired to retrieve a briefcase from a hotel but he the finds the building is filled with armed gangsters. He manages to get the case and suspecting that the job was a set up, he returns to his handler, Murphy, to find out who hired him. It turns out it was the beautiful Evelyn who hired Malone to steal the case from a gang controlled by the local crime lord, Whitmore, as she needs it to [[HostageForMacGuffin trade for her brother whom Whitmore is holding hostage.]]
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Give 'Em Hell, Malone is a 2009 [[FilmNoir Neo-Noir film]] produced by Russell Mulcahy, who also brought us ''Film/{{Razorback}}'' and ''Film/{{Highlander}}''.
''Film/{{Highlander}}''. It starsCreator/ThomasJane, Creator/VingRhames and Elsa Pataky.
Malone (Jane) ishired a former private eye, who has turned gun for hire. One day, he receives a job to retrieve a briefcase from a hotel but he the finds the building is filled with armed gangsters. He After a violent shootout with the mobsters, of which Malone is the [[SoleSurvivor lone survivor]], he manages to get the case and suspecting that the job was a set up, he returns to his handler, Murphy, to find out who hired him. It turns out it was the beautiful Evelyn (Pataky) who hired Malone to steal the case from a gang controlled by the local crime lord, Whitmore, as she needs it to [[HostageForMacGuffin trade for her brother whom Whitmore is holding hostage.]]
Meanwhile Whitmore learns that the case has been taken and is furious. He puts a five million bounty on Malone and brings in the local PsychosForHire (Rhames) to retrieve the case.
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* ArcWords: "The meaning of love." The first time Malone says it, it sounds like he's throwing out a sarcastic answer. Every time he says it afterwards, it becomes clearer it means something to him.
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* AffectionateParody: Of FilmNoir and the tropes common to the HardboiledDetective in particular. It's mostly a loving {{Homage}} to the Franchise/DickTracy-type over-the-top take on the genre...and then you get to the retirement home scenes.
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Give 'em Hell, Malone is a 2009 [[FilmNoir Neo-Noir film]] produced by Russell Mulcahy, who also brought us ''Film/{{Razorback}}'' and ''Film/{{Highlander}}''.
Malone is hired to retrieve a briefcase from a hotel but he the finds the building is filled with armed gangsters. He manages to get the case and suspecting that the job was a set up, he returns to his handler, Murphy, to find out who hired him. It turns out it was the beautiful Evelyn who hired Malone to steal the case from a gang controlled by the local crime lord, Whitmore, as she needs it to [[HostageForMacGuffin trade for her brother whom Whitmore is holding hostage.]]
Meanwhile Whitmore learns that the case has been taken and is furious. He puts a five million bounty on Malone and brings in the local PsychosForHire to retrieve the case.
But things are not as clear cut as they seem...
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* TheAlcoholic: Malone is constantly swigging from bottles of whisky and Gloria, his mother, makes him recite the twelve steps when he comes to see her.
* AndShowItToYou: Malone has a fearsome reputation from hunting down the people who killed his family and ripping their hearts out with his bare hands. [[spoiler: Though since his family are not dead, he probably never killed anyone that way.]]
-->'''Whitmore''': And, [[ScaryBlackMan Boulder]]... ripped out a man's heart and ate it? The physics of punching through a man's sternum alone make that an impossibility. Next time, spare me the hyperbole.
* BenchBreaker: [[spoiler: After Mauler knocks him out with a TranquillizerDart, Malone wakes up and finds himself tied to a chair on a stage. To escape, he pushes the chair off the stage, shattering it. Then he grabs a [[ImprovisedWeapon broken chair leg]] and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impales Mauler]] as she jumps down.]]
* CoolCar: Malone drives a 1952 Chop Top Buick Straight 8, a suitable car for a noir hero.
* CoveredWithScars: Matchstick has burn scars all over his body from a fire he started as a child. [[spoiler: After the first time Malone [[ManOnFire immolates him]], it seems like there is not an inch of unscarred skin left.]]
* CuteAndPsycho: Mauler is introduced wearing GirlishPigtails and a school uniform. What she does next to a poor schmuck is... [[{{understatement}} unpleasant]].
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler: After Mauler knocks him out with a TranquillizerDart, Malone wakes up and finds himself tied to a chair in a theatre with the corpses of all of Whitmore's lieutenants in the seats. Then music starts and [[LoungeLizard Frankie the Crooner's]] body, propped up on a wheeled stand with a microphone taped in his hand, moves across the stage.]]
* DeathByOriginStory: Malone turned from [[PrivateDetective private eye]] to feared gun-for-hire when gunmen sadistically killed his family and his brother's family. He then tracked the killers down and gruesomely killed them in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. [[spoiler: Subverted when it is revealed that his family is not dead. Malone knew that in his line of work, his family would be the first ones targeted by anyone wanting to hurt him. So he hid them and made up stories about their demise.]]
* EroticEating: Mauler's first scene is meeting a guy that she had contacted over the internet under the name [=Lollipop69=] and seducing him by sucking on a lollipop.
* FedoraOfAsskicking: Malone and Boulder both wear a stylish fedora when kicking ass.
* FemmeFatale: Evelyn; it wouldn't be Noir without one. [[spoiler: Emphasis on fatale as she is working for Whitmore and manipulating Malone the entire time.]]
* FilmNoir: Specifically Neo-Noir, what with the mobile phones and all.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Whitemore's hostage, Sammy says a very confused "sister?" before dying, a hint that he is not Evelyn's brother.]]
* FunctionalAddict: For all the alcohol Malone drinks, it does not seem to negatively affect his motor skills or his aim.
* HallOfMirrors: When the HostageForMacGuffin trade-off at the fairground goes south, Evelyn, Malone and Mauler end up in a hall of mirrors. Mauler makes full use of the mirrors to trick Malone into shooting reflections and wasting bullets, so she can get up close and take the case.
* HealItWithBooze: Instead of seeking proper medical care, Malone gets his elderly mother, an ex-nurse to patch him up in her retirement home using his whisky as an anaesthetic and as an antiseptic.
* HealthcareMotivation: Boulder works for Whitmore because he pays for the upkeep of life support for his comatose wife. [[spoiler: By the end, he has accepted that she will never wake up or she died (it is unclear which one) and [[HeelFaceTurn turns on Whitmore]].]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: In the theatre, Matchstick starts spraying kerosene on Malone and threatens him with a lighter. Malone spits out the kerosene sprayed into his mouth and it catches alight from Matchstick's lighter, [[ManOnFire immolating him]].]]
* InnerMonologue: In true Noir style, Malone's inner monologue narrates the film.
* IWantGrandkids: Malone's mother is not very subtle about her want for grandchildren.
-->'''Gloria''': Esther's granddaughter was here. She looks fertile, Malone.\\
'''Malone''': Wow. You got a hell of a way of selling a gal.
* JarPotty: Malone chains [[spoiler: Evelyn]] to the radiator and when she asks what to do if she needs to go to the toilet, he pushes across a pot plant.
-->'''Malone''': Fertilize.
* KnifeNut: Mauler is literally armed to the teeth with various blades and eschews guns. Her actress describes her as "a sinister Asian Creator/{{Shirley Temple}}-ish knife-wielding crazy delusional girl".
-->'''Boulder''': The Mauler? Have you seen where she keeps her knives?
* LastNameBasis: Everyone calls the main character Malone, including his own mother.
* LoungeLizard: Frankie the Crooner spends his time badly singing to either a disinterested club crowd or the senile residents of a retirement home.
* MacGuffin: The case contains a few wads of cut up magazines and a toy elephant that Whitmore calls "the meaning of love". Whitmore desperately wants to get the elephant back and sets a five million dollar bounty on Malone's head to get it back. [[spoiler: The elephant holds no meaning to Whitmore, it is actually the favourite toy of Malone's son, a sign that Whitmore knows Malone's family is still alive and he knows where they are.]]
* MadeOfIron: Malone gets shot and stabbed multiple times, yet all it takes to keep him still going is a swig of alcohol and some rough surgery from his mother to patch him up. [[spoiler: Whitmore's plan even relies on Malone being harder to kill then all of his {{mook}}s.]]
-->'''Malone's InnerMonologue''': Some men are harder to kill than others. Fortunately, I'm one of the hard ones.
* MonochromePast: The {{Flashback}}s are in black and white with a SplashOfColor, such as the [[AndShowItToYou bloody hearts torn from people’s chests]].
* MookHorrorShow: When Malone is retrieving the case in the opening scene, the criminal {{mook}}s are as much running for their lives as they are trying kill Malone.
* PocketProtector: [[spoiler: During the final confrontation with Whitmore, Malone is saved when a bullet hits his hip flask. He does seem rather disappointed that it spilled its contents, though.]]
* PsychoForHire: Despite Boulder's consternation, Whitmore hires [[PyroManiac Matchstick]] and [[KnifeNut Mauler]] to take out Malone and retrieve the case, outright calling them {{sadist}}s.
* {{Pyromaniac}}: Matchstick is introduced barring the door to a disco as the patrons desperately try to escape the inferno he started. His favourite method of interrogation is covering the person in kerosene and threatening them with a lighter. [[spoiler: Malone [[ManOnFire immolates him]], [[RasputinianDeath twice and still has to put a bullet in him]].]]
-->'''Matchstick''': {{Once upon a time}}, there was a bad little boy who loved playing with matches, you see, because fire was [[FriendlessBackground his only and best friend]], but then after the accident, he learned to respect fire, Murph, because fire, though it's beautiful, it's consumptive, you see. It's powerful, and if you're not careful, Murph, fire will hurt you. Do you understand what I'm saying? \\
'''Matchstick''': So, as the house was burning down, [[SelfMadeOrphan the little boy's Mommy and Daddy scream]]. They sounded like music to his ears because now there was nothing to get between the bad little boy and his heart's desire.\\
'''Matchstick''': Fire.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: Malone's gun of choice is a [[RareGuns Mateba Model 6 Unica.]]
* SadisticChoice: The gunmen who killed Malone's family forced him to decide if his wife or his son would die. On top of that, once he chose his wife, they killed both of them anyway. [[spoiler: Then again, his family never died.]]
* ScaryBlackMan: Boulder, as to be expected from a character played by Creator/VingRhames. He acts as Whitmore's [[TheDragon dragon]] and [[DisproportionateRetribution punches one of his guards for simply asking for ID]]. Despite this he is one of the more sympathetic characters [[spoiler: and he does a HeelFaceTurn by the end.]]
* ShesGotLegs: There are some loving shots that show off Evelyn's legs, especially since she likes showing them off.
* ShootTheHostage: Malone takes [[spoiler: Evelyn]] hostage but Whitmore calmly kills her with a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]].
-->'''Whitmore''': Nobody's worth that much to me.
* StockingFiller: There is a lingering shot of Evelyn smoothing out her stockings while on the bed.
* TheStoolPigeon: Frankie the Crooner is an invertebrate coward, who informs on and to Malone depending on who is threatening him at the time.
* TakingTheKids: [[spoiler: Some time before the movie begins, Malone's wife got fed up with him and left with their son without telling him where they were going.]]
* TheTeetotaler: Boulder gave up drinking after his wife fell into a coma and suggests Malone join him at his weekly AA meeting even as he is getting ready to interrogate him. [[spoiler: Malone ambushes him at the meeting and forces him to take him to Whitmore's hideout.]]
* TitleDrop: Gloria yells out the title while Malone is fighting Boulder in her retirement home.
* ToBeContinued: [[spoiler: Malone calls up his family but cannot bring himself to speak to them. As he walks off, To be continued... comes up.]]
* TranquillizerDart: [[spoiler: Mauler captures Malone by shooting him with a blowpipe because she sometime likes "to go tribal".]]
* UsingYouAllAlong: [[spoiler: Whitmore got Evelyn to hire Malone to steal the case. Whitmore did this so Malone would kill any man who ever worked for him and then he would kill Malone, blaming all the deaths on him. Once everyone who knew of Whitmore being a crime lord was dead, he could make a clean break and go legit.]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Malone's family's not dead".]]
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Malone is hired to retrieve a briefcase from a hotel but he the finds the building is filled with armed gangsters. He manages to get the case and suspecting that the job was a set up, he returns to his handler, Murphy, to find out who hired him. It turns out it was the beautiful Evelyn who hired Malone to steal the case from a gang controlled by the local crime lord, Whitmore, as she needs it to [[HostageForMacGuffin trade for her brother whom Whitmore is holding hostage.]]
Meanwhile Whitmore learns that the case has been taken and is furious. He puts a five million bounty on Malone and brings in the local PsychosForHire to retrieve the case.
But things are not as clear cut as they seem...
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!!Tropes include:
* TheAlcoholic: Malone is constantly swigging from bottles of whisky and Gloria, his mother, makes him recite the twelve steps when he comes to see her.
* AndShowItToYou: Malone has a fearsome reputation from hunting down the people who killed his family and ripping their hearts out with his bare hands. [[spoiler: Though since his family are not dead, he probably never killed anyone that way.]]
-->'''Whitmore''': And, [[ScaryBlackMan Boulder]]... ripped out a man's heart and ate it? The physics of punching through a man's sternum alone make that an impossibility. Next time, spare me the hyperbole.
* BenchBreaker: [[spoiler: After Mauler knocks him out with a TranquillizerDart, Malone wakes up and finds himself tied to a chair on a stage. To escape, he pushes the chair off the stage, shattering it. Then he grabs a [[ImprovisedWeapon broken chair leg]] and [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impales Mauler]] as she jumps down.]]
* CoolCar: Malone drives a 1952 Chop Top Buick Straight 8, a suitable car for a noir hero.
* CoveredWithScars: Matchstick has burn scars all over his body from a fire he started as a child. [[spoiler: After the first time Malone [[ManOnFire immolates him]], it seems like there is not an inch of unscarred skin left.]]
* CuteAndPsycho: Mauler is introduced wearing GirlishPigtails and a school uniform. What she does next to a poor schmuck is... [[{{understatement}} unpleasant]].
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: [[spoiler: After Mauler knocks him out with a TranquillizerDart, Malone wakes up and finds himself tied to a chair in a theatre with the corpses of all of Whitmore's lieutenants in the seats. Then music starts and [[LoungeLizard Frankie the Crooner's]] body, propped up on a wheeled stand with a microphone taped in his hand, moves across the stage.]]
* DeathByOriginStory: Malone turned from [[PrivateDetective private eye]] to feared gun-for-hire when gunmen sadistically killed his family and his brother's family. He then tracked the killers down and gruesomely killed them in a RoaringRampageOfRevenge. [[spoiler: Subverted when it is revealed that his family is not dead. Malone knew that in his line of work, his family would be the first ones targeted by anyone wanting to hurt him. So he hid them and made up stories about their demise.]]
* EroticEating: Mauler's first scene is meeting a guy that she had contacted over the internet under the name [=Lollipop69=] and seducing him by sucking on a lollipop.
* FedoraOfAsskicking: Malone and Boulder both wear a stylish fedora when kicking ass.
* FemmeFatale: Evelyn; it wouldn't be Noir without one. [[spoiler: Emphasis on fatale as she is working for Whitmore and manipulating Malone the entire time.]]
* FilmNoir: Specifically Neo-Noir, what with the mobile phones and all.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Whitemore's hostage, Sammy says a very confused "sister?" before dying, a hint that he is not Evelyn's brother.]]
* FunctionalAddict: For all the alcohol Malone drinks, it does not seem to negatively affect his motor skills or his aim.
* HallOfMirrors: When the HostageForMacGuffin trade-off at the fairground goes south, Evelyn, Malone and Mauler end up in a hall of mirrors. Mauler makes full use of the mirrors to trick Malone into shooting reflections and wasting bullets, so she can get up close and take the case.
* HealItWithBooze: Instead of seeking proper medical care, Malone gets his elderly mother, an ex-nurse to patch him up in her retirement home using his whisky as an anaesthetic and as an antiseptic.
* HealthcareMotivation: Boulder works for Whitmore because he pays for the upkeep of life support for his comatose wife. [[spoiler: By the end, he has accepted that she will never wake up or she died (it is unclear which one) and [[HeelFaceTurn turns on Whitmore]].]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler: In the theatre, Matchstick starts spraying kerosene on Malone and threatens him with a lighter. Malone spits out the kerosene sprayed into his mouth and it catches alight from Matchstick's lighter, [[ManOnFire immolating him]].]]
* InnerMonologue: In true Noir style, Malone's inner monologue narrates the film.
* IWantGrandkids: Malone's mother is not very subtle about her want for grandchildren.
-->'''Gloria''': Esther's granddaughter was here. She looks fertile, Malone.\\
'''Malone''': Wow. You got a hell of a way of selling a gal.
* JarPotty: Malone chains [[spoiler: Evelyn]] to the radiator and when she asks what to do if she needs to go to the toilet, he pushes across a pot plant.
-->'''Malone''': Fertilize.
* KnifeNut: Mauler is literally armed to the teeth with various blades and eschews guns. Her actress describes her as "a sinister Asian Creator/{{Shirley Temple}}-ish knife-wielding crazy delusional girl".
-->'''Boulder''': The Mauler? Have you seen where she keeps her knives?
* LastNameBasis: Everyone calls the main character Malone, including his own mother.
* LoungeLizard: Frankie the Crooner spends his time badly singing to either a disinterested club crowd or the senile residents of a retirement home.
* MacGuffin: The case contains a few wads of cut up magazines and a toy elephant that Whitmore calls "the meaning of love". Whitmore desperately wants to get the elephant back and sets a five million dollar bounty on Malone's head to get it back. [[spoiler: The elephant holds no meaning to Whitmore, it is actually the favourite toy of Malone's son, a sign that Whitmore knows Malone's family is still alive and he knows where they are.]]
* MadeOfIron: Malone gets shot and stabbed multiple times, yet all it takes to keep him still going is a swig of alcohol and some rough surgery from his mother to patch him up. [[spoiler: Whitmore's plan even relies on Malone being harder to kill then all of his {{mook}}s.]]
-->'''Malone's InnerMonologue''': Some men are harder to kill than others. Fortunately, I'm one of the hard ones.
* MonochromePast: The {{Flashback}}s are in black and white with a SplashOfColor, such as the [[AndShowItToYou bloody hearts torn from people’s chests]].
* MookHorrorShow: When Malone is retrieving the case in the opening scene, the criminal {{mook}}s are as much running for their lives as they are trying kill Malone.
* PocketProtector: [[spoiler: During the final confrontation with Whitmore, Malone is saved when a bullet hits his hip flask. He does seem rather disappointed that it spilled its contents, though.]]
* PsychoForHire: Despite Boulder's consternation, Whitmore hires [[PyroManiac Matchstick]] and [[KnifeNut Mauler]] to take out Malone and retrieve the case, outright calling them {{sadist}}s.
* {{Pyromaniac}}: Matchstick is introduced barring the door to a disco as the patrons desperately try to escape the inferno he started. His favourite method of interrogation is covering the person in kerosene and threatening them with a lighter. [[spoiler: Malone [[ManOnFire immolates him]], [[RasputinianDeath twice and still has to put a bullet in him]].]]
-->'''Matchstick''': {{Once upon a time}}, there was a bad little boy who loved playing with matches, you see, because fire was [[FriendlessBackground his only and best friend]], but then after the accident, he learned to respect fire, Murph, because fire, though it's beautiful, it's consumptive, you see. It's powerful, and if you're not careful, Murph, fire will hurt you. Do you understand what I'm saying? \\
'''Matchstick''': So, as the house was burning down, [[SelfMadeOrphan the little boy's Mommy and Daddy scream]]. They sounded like music to his ears because now there was nothing to get between the bad little boy and his heart's desire.\\
'''Matchstick''': Fire.
* RevolversAreJustBetter: Malone's gun of choice is a [[RareGuns Mateba Model 6 Unica.]]
* SadisticChoice: The gunmen who killed Malone's family forced him to decide if his wife or his son would die. On top of that, once he chose his wife, they killed both of them anyway. [[spoiler: Then again, his family never died.]]
* ScaryBlackMan: Boulder, as to be expected from a character played by Creator/VingRhames. He acts as Whitmore's [[TheDragon dragon]] and [[DisproportionateRetribution punches one of his guards for simply asking for ID]]. Despite this he is one of the more sympathetic characters [[spoiler: and he does a HeelFaceTurn by the end.]]
* ShesGotLegs: There are some loving shots that show off Evelyn's legs, especially since she likes showing them off.
* ShootTheHostage: Malone takes [[spoiler: Evelyn]] hostage but Whitmore calmly kills her with a [[BoomHeadshot headshot]].
-->'''Whitmore''': Nobody's worth that much to me.
* StockingFiller: There is a lingering shot of Evelyn smoothing out her stockings while on the bed.
* TheStoolPigeon: Frankie the Crooner is an invertebrate coward, who informs on and to Malone depending on who is threatening him at the time.
* TakingTheKids: [[spoiler: Some time before the movie begins, Malone's wife got fed up with him and left with their son without telling him where they were going.]]
* TheTeetotaler: Boulder gave up drinking after his wife fell into a coma and suggests Malone join him at his weekly AA meeting even as he is getting ready to interrogate him. [[spoiler: Malone ambushes him at the meeting and forces him to take him to Whitmore's hideout.]]
* TitleDrop: Gloria yells out the title while Malone is fighting Boulder in her retirement home.
* ToBeContinued: [[spoiler: Malone calls up his family but cannot bring himself to speak to them. As he walks off, To be continued... comes up.]]
* TranquillizerDart: [[spoiler: Mauler captures Malone by shooting him with a blowpipe because she sometime likes "to go tribal".]]
* UsingYouAllAlong: [[spoiler: Whitmore got Evelyn to hire Malone to steal the case. Whitmore did this so Malone would kill any man who ever worked for him and then he would kill Malone, blaming all the deaths on him. Once everyone who knew of Whitmore being a crime lord was dead, he could make a clean break and go legit.]]
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Malone's family's not dead".]]
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