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* ReusableLighterToss: one of Wah's first action scenes, a hostage standoff in a petrol station where a psychopath had [[GasolineDousing drenched himself]] [[WouldHurtAChild and a child]] in gasoline, and is about to drop an ignited Zippo lighter. Wah then shows the audience why he's one of the Special Forces' best by [[ImprobableAimingSkills sniping the lighter as it's dropping, two feet above the gasoline pool]].
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* BadHabits: The BigBad of the film shows up on the yatch, dressed up as a priest, complete with rosaries. And he gets to kill several people while in this disguise.
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* BadHabits: The BigBad of the film shows up on the yatch, yacht, dressed up as a priest, complete with rosaries. And he gets to kill several people while in this disguise.
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* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: When the terrorists attacks a party on a yatch, Wah pursues their leader to the yatch's lower deck despite his Lieutenant ordering him to wait for backup. Wah responds by removing his earphones and chasing after his opponent.
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* CuttingTheElectronicLeash: When the terrorists attacks a party on a yatch, yacht, Wah pursues their leader to the yatch's yacht's lower deck despite his Lieutenant ordering him to wait for backup. Wah responds by removing his earphones and chasing after his opponent.
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* IAintGotTimeToBleed: The police Lieutenant leading Wah's unit gets shot in the shoulder, and he responds with it's OnlyAFleshWound and continues firing his machine-gun through the terrorist horde.
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* OnlyAFleshWound: The police Lieutenant leading Wah's unit gets shot in the shoulder, and he shrugs it off and continues firing his machine-gun through the terrorist horde.
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Contains various parallels to ''Top Gun'' (which is 3 years old when this movie came out, the hype is at its peak) and started a [[FollowTheLeader mini-trend]] of Hong Kong films starring cocky protagonists as police recruits joining anti-terrorist units, including ''Best of the Best'', ''Special Tactical Unit'', ''Big Bullet'', ''The New Option'' and the like.
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Contains various parallels to ''Top Gun'' (which is 3 years old when this movie came out, the hype is at its peak) and started a [[FollowTheLeader mini-trend]] of Hong Kong films starring cocky protagonists as police recruits joining anti-terrorist units, including ''Best of the Best'', ''Special Tactical Unit'', ''Big Bullet'', ''Film/BigBullet'', ''Film/{{PTU}}'', ''The New Option'' and the like.
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* TrainingFromHell: The recruits, including Wah and Wai, are subjected to one which takes up roughly the entire first thirty percent of the film.
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* MilitarySalute: Used by various characters, predictably given its setting. Wah does this when greeting his friend from his car, and later when addressing his superiors after [[spoiler blowing up the BigBad]].
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* MilitarySalute: Used by various characters, predictably given its setting. Wah does this when greeting his friend from his car, and later when addressing his superiors after [[spoiler [[spoiler: blowing up the BigBad]].
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Two of Wah's friends are only known by their nicknames, [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse He-man]] and [[ComicStrip/Popeye Popeye]].
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Two of Wah's friends are only known by their nicknames, [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse He-man]] and [[ComicStrip/Popeye [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} Popeye]].
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* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Quite a few terrorists get capped in the head throughout the film, but none of these have any blood (just puff of smoke).
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Quite a few terrorists get capped in the head throughout the film, but none of these have any blood (just puff of smoke).
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
MilitarySalute: Used by various characters, predictably given its setting. Wah does this when greeting his friend from his car, and later when addressing his superiors after [[spoiler blowing up the BigBad]].
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Two of Wah's friends are only known by their nicknames, [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse He-man]] and [[ComicStrip/Popeye Popeye]].
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Quite a few terrorists get capped in the head throughout the film, but none of these have any blood (justpuff puffs of smoke).smoke from small squibs in the head).
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Two of Wah's friends are only known by their nicknames, [[Franchise/MastersOfTheUniverse He-man]] and [[ComicStrip/Popeye Popeye]].
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Quite a few terrorists get capped in the head throughout the film, but none of these have any blood (just
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--> "You call youerself a cop? You look more like a boy scout! And you want to take me on?"
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--> "You call youerself yourself a cop? You look more like a boy scout! And you want to take me on?"
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* GratuitousEnglish: The terrorist leader, despite leading a Vietnamese/Chinese-based gang, speaks English. Garbled English, to be precise.
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* GratuitousEnglish: The terrorist leader, despite leading a Vietnamese/Chinese-based gang, speaks English. Garbled English, to be precise.precise (he's played by a Chinese-American actor, Eddie Maher / Eddie Ma).
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* IAintGotTimeToBleed
IAintGotTimeToBleed: The police Lieutenant leading Wah's unit gets shot in the shoulder, and he responds with it's OnlyAFleshWound and continues firing his machine-gun through the terrorist horde.
*ImprobableAimingSkillsImprobableAimingSkills: Wah, who is capable of shooting a dropped lighter (about to fall on a gasoline pool, threatening to blow up a gas station) just a few inches from the ground.
** Taken to ridiculous extremes in the final shootout; a terrorist aims his bazooka at Wah, and Wah retaliates by throwing a grenade ''in a straight line'' into the bazooka's barrel!
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** Taken to ridiculous extremes in the final shootout; a terrorist aims his bazooka at Wah, and Wah retaliates by throwing a grenade ''in a straight line'' into the bazooka's barrel!
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* BadHabitsBadHabits: The BigBad of the film shows up on the yatch, dressed up as a priest, complete with rosaries. And he gets to kill several people while in this disguise.
* BearerOfBadNews: [[spoiler: Ultimately, Wah had to be the one to inform Wai's family, including Wai's toddler son, that Wai is dead]].
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: In the climax a terrorist attempts to chuck a grenade at Wah's team, but Wah simply shoots the terrorist's grenade out of his hand. The resulting explosion blasts half a dozen terrorists to kingdom come.
* BearerOfBadNews: [[spoiler: Ultimately, Wah had to be the one to inform Wai's family, including Wai's toddler son, that Wai is dead]].
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: In the climax a terrorist attempts to chuck a grenade at Wah's team, but Wah simply shoots the terrorist's grenade out of his hand. The resulting explosion blasts half a dozen terrorists to kingdom come.
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* FriendToAllChildren
* GratuitousEnglish
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* FriendToAllChildren
* GratuitousEnglish
* HeroicBSOD
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* {{Expy}}:
{{Expy}}: Wah is a more action-prone [[Film/TopGun Maverick]], representing the army instead of the air force.
*FriendToAllChildren
FriendToAllChildren: Wah, who quickly became friends with Wai's family including Wai's young son.
*GratuitousEnglish
GratuitousEnglish: The terrorist leader, despite leading a Vietnamese/Chinese-based gang, speaks English. Garbled English, to be precise.
*HeroicBSODHeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: Wah had a rather nasty one after his best friend Wai is killed]].
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* LuredIntoATrapLuredIntoATrap: The first SWAT team infiltrating thew terrorist hideout in the finale. Cue the BigBad brandishing a [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill ROCKET LAUNCHER]] to blow away the first two officers he sees.
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* TrashTalk
* UnflinchingWalk
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* RapidFireFisticuffs
RapidFireFisticuffs: Delivered by Wah during the hostage rescue scene, where he pummels a lone terrorist before subduing him. He later does the same thing to the BigBad.
*SacrificialLion:
SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: Wah's best friend Wai dies halfway into the middle of the film]].
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SurvivalMantra: In the final shootout, Wah repeats the words, "I'm confident... I'm confident..." while blasting away terrorists left and right.
*UnflinchingWalk
TrashTalk: Delivered by the BigBad, after beating up Wah in a CurbStompBattle and [[spoiler: killing Wai in front of Wah]].
--> "You call youerself a cop? You look more like a boy scout! And you want to take me on?"
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UnflinchingWalk: [[spoiler: After Wah defeats the BigBad and knocks him to the ground]], Wah simply walks away flinging a grenade behind him, and then walks ahead as the ensuing explosion fries his opponent.
* WeAreTeamCannonFodder: The first SWAT unit that infiltrate the terrorists' hideout gets blown to bits within a few seconds, before the second unit with Wah spearheading the team arrives.
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* WeAreTeamCannonFodder: The first SWAT unit that infiltrate the terrorists' hideout gets blown to bits within a few seconds, before the second unit with Wah spearheading the team arrives.
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* ArcWordsArcWords: "I... am... invincible..." said by Wai, best friend of Wah. Firstly when he gets shot by paintball pellets during a police exercise, then [[spoiler: after Wai gets shot by the BigBad and succumbed in front of Wah]].
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''Film/TopGun'' meets ''Creator/JohnWoo''.
''Proud and Confident'' is a 1989 Hong Kong action film starring Creator/AndyLau.
Wah (Andy Lau) is an elite SuperCop promoted to lead the Hong Kong Police's anti-terrorist unit after displaying his sharpshooting skills that saved a group of children from a psychopath. With his best friend Wai (Michael Miu), Wah is to lead a band of new recruits and whip them into shape, but when an international terrorist force called the IBS made landfall into Hong Kong and the military isn't able to respond in time, its up to Wah and his unit to battle the IBS.
Contains various parallels to ''Top Gun'' (which is 3 years old when this movie came out, the hype is at its peak) and started a [[FollowTheLeader mini-trend]] of Hong Kong films starring cocky protagonists as police recruits joining anti-terrorist units, including ''Best of the Best'', ''Special Tactical Unit'', ''Big Bullet'', ''The New Option'' and the like.
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!! This film provides examples of:
* ArcWords
*BadHabits
* {{Expy}}:
* FriendToAllChildren
* GratuitousEnglish
* HeroicBSOD
* IAintGotTimeToBleed
* ImprobableAimingSkills
* LuredIntoATrap
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Quite a few terrorists get capped in the head throughout the film, but none of these have any blood (just puff of smoke).
* RapidFireFisticuffs
* TrashTalk
* UnflinchingWalk
* WeAreTeamCannonFodder
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''Film/TopGun'' meets ''Creator/JohnWoo''.
''Proud and Confident'' is a 1989 Hong Kong action film starring Creator/AndyLau.
Wah (Andy Lau) is an elite SuperCop promoted to lead the Hong Kong Police's anti-terrorist unit after displaying his sharpshooting skills that saved a group of children from a psychopath. With his best friend Wai (Michael Miu), Wah is to lead a band of new recruits and whip them into shape, but when an international terrorist force called the IBS made landfall into Hong Kong and the military isn't able to respond in time, its up to Wah and his unit to battle the IBS.
Contains various parallels to ''Top Gun'' (which is 3 years old when this movie came out, the hype is at its peak) and started a [[FollowTheLeader mini-trend]] of Hong Kong films starring cocky protagonists as police recruits joining anti-terrorist units, including ''Best of the Best'', ''Special Tactical Unit'', ''Big Bullet'', ''The New Option'' and the like.
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!! This film provides examples of:
* ArcWords
*BadHabits
* {{Expy}}:
* FriendToAllChildren
* GratuitousEnglish
* HeroicBSOD
* IAintGotTimeToBleed
* ImprobableAimingSkills
* LuredIntoATrap
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Quite a few terrorists get capped in the head throughout the film, but none of these have any blood (just puff of smoke).
* RapidFireFisticuffs
* TrashTalk
* UnflinchingWalk
* WeAreTeamCannonFodder
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