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''Sabotage'' is a 2014 thriller directed by Creator/DavidAyer, and written by Skip Woods and Ayer.

John "Breacher" Wharton (Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger) is the leader of an [[BadassCrew elite team of DEA agents]], including James "Monster" Murray ([[Film/{{AVATAR}} Sam Worthington]]) and his wife Lizzy Murray ([[Film/WorldWarZ Mireille]] [[TheKilling Enos]]), Joe "Grinder" Philips (a hulking, bison-like Creator/JoeManganiello), Julius "Sugar" Edmonds ([[Film/IronMan Terrence Howard]]), Eddie "Neck" Jordan (Creator/JoshHolloway) and Tom "Pyro" Roberts ([[Film/PacificRim Max]] [[CaptainPhillips Martini]]). The team comes under investigation for pilfering money from a bust on a drug cartel's safe house. Turns out they DID pilfer the money, but someone made off with it before they could retrieve it. As if the investigation and their own suspicions about each other weren't enough, they are now being killed off one by one, and UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} Police investigator Caroline Brentwood (Olivia Williams) is shining an additional light on the team's activities. Is it the cartel exacting their revenge, or is one of the team members the killer?

No relation to the 1936 film by Creator/AlfredHitchcock.

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!! This film provides examples of:
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Lizzy when she is found out. She goes on a psychotic, drugged up killing spree with Sugar before being killed.]]
* AccidentalPublicConfession: [[spoiler:Lizzy admits she's been cheating on Monster with Sugar. As betrayed as Monster feels, Sugar is ''horrified'' that their affair was just revealed to the entire team.]]
* ActionGirl: Lizzy.
* AgentsDating: During the course of the investigation, [[spoiler:Breacher and Brentwood start to get close...a little ''too'' close.]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Both Monster and Grinder meet privately with Brentwood to reveal the truth.]]
* BecauseImGoodAtIt: Grinder remarks that his life is basically over [[spoiler: after he tells Brentwood the truth]], because his career is doomed and he doesn’t know how to do anything else. [[spoiler: He’s shot in the head immediately afterwards, so it’s rendered irrelevant.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:After Breacher admits to a mortally wounded Lizzy that ''he'' [[IDidWhatIHadToDo stole the money]], he shoots her, evades Brentwood, and winds up in Mexico, where he bribes an official to finger the cartel member who killed Breacher's family. He tracks said killer to a dive bar and executes him, but is fatally wounded in the resulting shootout. The film ends with him enjoying a last drink and cigar as he bleeds to death.]]
* BondOneLiner: Grinder to Brentwood, as she arrives at the hideout of the Guatemalan hit squad Breacher's team just wiped out.
-->'''"Cleanup on Aisle Three..."'''
* BoomHeadshot:
** [[spoiler:Grinder gets his brains blown out by Lizzy]].
** [[spoiler:Strangely averted with Breacher who she shoots in the bulletproof vest despite having a clear upclose shot at him]]
* BottomlessMagazines: He does reload at one point, but Breacher fires about twice as many rounds as his .45 has any right to hold in the final fight.
* CementShoes: [[spoiler: The Guatemalans were weighted down, wrapped in chicken wire to keep the bloat from making them pop up, but they get pulled up by a fisherman’s anchor.]]
* ChainedToARailway: A rare male example, as Pyro wakes up to find his RV has been dragged into the path of an oncoming train.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Brentwood, after they find Neck ''nailed to the ceiling''.
* CluelessMystery: Right up until the WhamLine, there are no overt hints as to who's knocking off Breacher's team.
* ClusterFBomb: About 90% of the main characters' dialogue sounds like a transcription of Creator/GeorgeCarlin stubbing his toe.
* ColdSniper: Husband-and-wife team Monster and Lizzy split the honors here. Includes ImprobableAimingSkills, and usually results in a BoomHeadshot.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
** Pyro, who's RV is struck by a train. With him still inside.
** [[spoiler:Neck, who's disemboweled and hung from the ceiling of his house]].
** [[spoiler:Monster, who is stabbed by Lizzy and then stuffed into a fridge]].
** [[spoiler:And ''especially'' Breacher's wife and son, whose torture and murder is videotaped and mailed to Breacher - along with a steady stream of their body parts.]]
* CutApart: Tripod's death - it seems like Breacher and Brentwood show up at his house at the same time as a trio of gunmen, but it turns out that the gunmen got there much earlier than they did and killed Tripod.
* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:Lizzy]]
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Some Guatemalan hitters kill Tripod, but [[spoiler: Lizzie and and possibly Sugar kill them and plant their DNA and fingerprints at Pyro's RV to throw the investigation off the track. It would have worked if the hitters hadn't been dredged up.]]
* DirtyHarriet: Lizzy infiltrates the cartel safe house as a party girl.
* DreadlockWarrior: Grinder.
* DwindlingParty: To the point where the film seems like a horror movie.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Tripod was apparently a Navy SEAL. Breacher's entire team is allegedly an elite DEA unit, but [[RagTagBunchOfMisfits you'd never know it to look at them.]]
* FailedASpotCheck: None of Breacher's highly-trained DEA team realized that the one Mexican police officer ''not'' wearing a helmet or balaclava might be someone to watch, since officers need to do that to hide their identities or risk Cartel retribution. At the end of the film somehow in the middle of Mexico a bunch of cartel guards didn’t manage to spot the giant Austrian man until it was way too late, although it's admittedly in a dark bar and he’s dressed to blend in.
* FakeIrish: An implied in-universe example. Lizzy owns a (presumably fake) Irish passport. [[spoiler: She plans on using it to flee the States but Monster shreds it and in a rage she murders him.]]
* FieryRedhead: Lizzy.
* FunctionalAddict: Lizzie. About to lead the team through a live-fire refresher drill, Breacher realizes that she's high. She, in turn, assures him that she can still perform her job without endangering the rest of the team.
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Lizzie does this to ascertain the contents of some jugs of pure liquid meth found during a raid. A bit more justified than usual however, in that the team freak right the hell out when she does this, and she's a FunctionalAddict anyway.
* {{Gorn}}: The film goes out of its way to show the mangled remains of Breacher's dead team members.
* GoryDiscretionShot: The film, surprisingly, does not show [[spoiler:Sugar's mangled body after he got in a messy car crash]].
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The team captured a high-level drug lord in Juarez and was about to turn him over to the Mexican federal police. Then a Cartel hitter dressed as one of the Mexicans shot the guy in the head to prevent the man from talking.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Breacher at the end.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Brentwood has a brief FreakOut after finding out [[spoiler: Breacher stole the money that lasts just long enough for him to disappear.]]
* IWasNeverHere: Inverted example. [[spoiler: The man Breacher bribes makes it very clear to him that the official story is they never met.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Breacher's entire team. Even Breacher himself tends to act like a callous DeadpanSnarker whenever he's around Brentwood, ''the one person trying to help him and his team''.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Breacher's entire team is dead by the end of the movie. [[TheHeroDies Including Breacher himself]]]].
* LockAndLoadMontage: After being under investigation - and "on the beach" - for months, the team is ecstatic that they can finally suit up for another mission.
* MoreDakka: The raid on the safe house is momentarily derailed when a cartel {{Mook}} starts shooting at the team. Through a ''wall.'' With a belt-fed machine gun.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Lizzy abandons her husband Monster, runs off with Sugar, then ends up killing Monster. See also StuffedIntoTheFridge.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer: A particularly egregious example. The story suggested by the trailer is often ''miles'' away from the actual film's plot, and new lines of dialog are actually looped in to perpetuate the fraud.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Brentwood takes her eyes off Breacher for only a few seconds at the end of the movie, which leads to his escape]].
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Sugar's inferred demise after his getaway car slams into the back of a tow truck.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping:
** Sam Worthington, from time to time.
** Olivia Williams' accent wavers between Southern drawl, flat American, and her native ReceivedPronunciation.
* OneLastSmoke: [[spoiler: Mortally wounded in a Mexican dive bar, Breacher enjoys a last drink and a cigar before bleeding to death.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Most of the squad. Only Breacher and Lizzy are regularly referred to by their real names.
* PerpSweating: The interrogations the team underwent. Seems like the DEA figured the best way to get Breacher's team to confess was to yell at them and taunt them.
* PostClimaxConfrontation: [[spoiler:The shootout in the Mexican bar]].
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Despite Breacher's claim that his team are some of the best undercover operatives around, when they aren't on a raid, they mostly party, brawl, and rag on each other.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: The team, with a side of KickedUpstairs for Breacher. It's implied that the DEA was trying to get them to either quit or confess.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Almost ''immediately'' after [[spoiler: confessing to Brentwood that they did steal the money, Grinder takes a bullet to the head.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Subverted. The team comes to the conclusion that one of their own is killing them off, and Grinder promises to kill any of the others if he sees them before riding off. The next scene is him spilling the beans to Brentwood, and right after that he apologizes to Breacher.
* ShootOutTheLock: Breacher's main task on raids, and hence his nickname.
* SlashedThroat: How [[spoiler:Lizzy]] kills [[spoiler:Monster]].
* SlobsVersusSnobs: Breacher's team's opinion of Brentwood. Includes an attempted BreakTheHaughty moment when Brentwood walks in on the squad partying, and Grinder menacingly demands she have a beer with them. Unfazed, Brentwood's response is to shake the bottle and spray Grinder with beer.
* SnuffFilm: Breacher gets one - of his family being tortured and killed by a cartel thug.
* StripperCopConfusion: Happens to Brentwood when she arrives at Breacher's house to get a statement from a team member. She's not dressed in anything resembling a police uniform, so it seems like the gang are mocking her just to be dicks. Then, of course, a ''real'' stripper arrives just as she is leaving.
* TokenMinority: Sugar and Jackson, both of whom are black.
* WhamLine: See BittersweetEnding.
* WhatAnIdiot: The Cartel soldier with the machinegun who fires through a wall at the team but aims well above their heads giving them plenty of time to duck and running out of ammo before he can lower the weapon down enough to hit them.
* WorkoutFanservice: Breacher in the gym.
* YourCheatingHeart: Monster suspects Lizzy is two-timing him when she tries to leave their house with a pistol and two condoms in her purse. [[spoiler:She is, which leads to her AccidentalPublicConfession.]]
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''Sabotage'' is a 2014 thriller directed by Creator/DavidAyer, and written by Skip Woods and Ayer.

John "Breacher" Wharton (Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger) is the leader of an [[BadassCrew elite team of DEA agents]], including James "Monster" Murray ([[Film/{{AVATAR}} Sam Worthington]]) and his wife Lizzy Murray ([[Film/WorldWarZ Mireille]] [[TheKilling Enos]]), Joe "Grinder" Philips (a hulking, bison-like Creator/JoeManganiello), Julius "Sugar" Edmonds ([[Film/IronMan Terrence Howard]]), Eddie "Neck" Jordan (Creator/JoshHolloway) and Tom "Pyro" Roberts ([[Film/PacificRim Max]] [[CaptainPhillips Martini]]). The team comes under investigation for pilfering money from a bust on a drug cartel's safe house. Turns out they DID pilfer the money, but someone made off with it before they could retrieve it. As if the investigation and their own suspicions about each other weren't enough, they are now being killed off one by one, and UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} Police investigator Caroline Brentwood (Olivia Williams) is shining an additional light on the team's activities. Is it the cartel exacting their revenge, or is one of the team members the killer?

No relation to the 1936 film by Creator/AlfredHitchcock.

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!! This film provides examples of:
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Lizzy when she is found out. She goes on a psychotic, drugged up killing spree with Sugar before being killed.]]
* AccidentalPublicConfession: [[spoiler:Lizzy admits she's been cheating on Monster with Sugar. As betrayed as Monster feels, Sugar is ''horrified'' that their affair was just revealed to the entire team.]]
* ActionGirl: Lizzy.
* AgentsDating: During the course of the investigation, [[spoiler:Breacher and Brentwood start to get close...a little ''too'' close.]]
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Both Monster and Grinder meet privately with Brentwood to reveal the truth.]]
* BecauseImGoodAtIt: Grinder remarks that his life is basically over [[spoiler: after he tells Brentwood the truth]], because his career is doomed and he doesn’t know how to do anything else. [[spoiler: He’s shot in the head immediately afterwards, so it’s rendered irrelevant.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:After Breacher admits to a mortally wounded Lizzy that ''he'' [[IDidWhatIHadToDo stole the money]], he shoots her, evades Brentwood, and winds up in Mexico, where he bribes an official to finger the cartel member who killed Breacher's family. He tracks said killer to a dive bar and executes him, but is fatally wounded in the resulting shootout. The film ends with him enjoying a last drink and cigar as he bleeds to death.]]
* BondOneLiner: Grinder to Brentwood, as she arrives at the hideout of the Guatemalan hit squad Breacher's team just wiped out.
-->'''"Cleanup on Aisle Three..."'''
* BoomHeadshot:
** [[spoiler:Grinder gets his brains blown out by Lizzy]].
** [[spoiler:Strangely averted with Breacher who she shoots in the bulletproof vest despite having a clear upclose shot at him]]
* BottomlessMagazines: He does reload at one point, but Breacher fires about twice as many rounds as his .45 has any right to hold in the final fight.
* CementShoes: [[spoiler: The Guatemalans were weighted down, wrapped in chicken wire to keep the bloat from making them pop up, but they get pulled up by a fisherman’s anchor.]]
* ChainedToARailway: A rare male example, as Pyro wakes up to find his RV has been dragged into the path of an oncoming train.
* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Brentwood, after they find Neck ''nailed to the ceiling''.
* CluelessMystery: Right up until the WhamLine, there are no overt hints as to who's knocking off Breacher's team.
* ClusterFBomb: About 90% of the main characters' dialogue sounds like a transcription of Creator/GeorgeCarlin stubbing his toe.
* ColdSniper: Husband-and-wife team Monster and Lizzy split the honors here. Includes ImprobableAimingSkills, and usually results in a BoomHeadshot.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath:
** Pyro, who's RV is struck by a train. With him still inside.
** [[spoiler:Neck, who's disemboweled and hung from the ceiling of his house]].
** [[spoiler:Monster, who is stabbed by Lizzy and then stuffed into a fridge]].
** [[spoiler:And ''especially'' Breacher's wife and son, whose torture and murder is videotaped and mailed to Breacher - along with a steady stream of their body parts.]]
* CutApart: Tripod's death - it seems like Breacher and Brentwood show up at his house at the same time as a trio of gunmen, but it turns out that the gunmen got there much earlier than they did and killed Tripod.
* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:Lizzy]]
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Some Guatemalan hitters kill Tripod, but [[spoiler: Lizzie and and possibly Sugar kill them and plant their DNA and fingerprints at Pyro's RV to throw the investigation off the track. It would have worked if the hitters hadn't been dredged up.]]
* DirtyHarriet: Lizzy infiltrates the cartel safe house as a party girl.
* DreadlockWarrior: Grinder.
* DwindlingParty: To the point where the film seems like a horror movie.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Tripod was apparently a Navy SEAL. Breacher's entire team is allegedly an elite DEA unit, but [[RagTagBunchOfMisfits you'd never know it to look at them.]]
* FailedASpotCheck: None of Breacher's highly-trained DEA team realized that the one Mexican police officer ''not'' wearing a helmet or balaclava might be someone to watch, since officers need to do that to hide their identities or risk Cartel retribution. At the end of the film somehow in the middle of Mexico a bunch of cartel guards didn’t manage to spot the giant Austrian man until it was way too late, although it's admittedly in a dark bar and he’s dressed to blend in.
* FakeIrish: An implied in-universe example. Lizzy owns a (presumably fake) Irish passport. [[spoiler: She plans on using it to flee the States but Monster shreds it and in a rage she murders him.]]
* FieryRedhead: Lizzy.
* FunctionalAddict: Lizzie. About to lead the team through a live-fire refresher drill, Breacher realizes that she's high. She, in turn, assures him that she can still perform her job without endangering the rest of the team.
* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Lizzie does this to ascertain the contents of some jugs of pure liquid meth found during a raid. A bit more justified than usual however, in that the team freak right the hell out when she does this, and she's a FunctionalAddict anyway.
* {{Gorn}}: The film goes out of its way to show the mangled remains of Breacher's dead team members.
* GoryDiscretionShot: The film, surprisingly, does not show [[spoiler:Sugar's mangled body after he got in a messy car crash]].
* HeKnowsTooMuch: The team captured a high-level drug lord in Juarez and was about to turn him over to the Mexican federal police. Then a Cartel hitter dressed as one of the Mexicans shot the guy in the head to prevent the man from talking.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Breacher at the end.]]
* HeroicBSOD: Brentwood has a brief FreakOut after finding out [[spoiler: Breacher stole the money that lasts just long enough for him to disappear.]]
* IWasNeverHere: Inverted example. [[spoiler: The man Breacher bribes makes it very clear to him that the official story is they never met.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: Breacher's entire team. Even Breacher himself tends to act like a callous DeadpanSnarker whenever he's around Brentwood, ''the one person trying to help him and his team''.
* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Breacher's entire team is dead by the end of the movie. [[TheHeroDies Including Breacher himself]]]].
* LockAndLoadMontage: After being under investigation - and "on the beach" - for months, the team is ecstatic that they can finally suit up for another mission.
* MoreDakka: The raid on the safe house is momentarily derailed when a cartel {{Mook}} starts shooting at the team. Through a ''wall.'' With a belt-fed machine gun.
* MurderTheHypotenuse: [[spoiler:Lizzy abandons her husband Monster, runs off with Sugar, then ends up killing Monster. See also StuffedIntoTheFridge.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer: A particularly egregious example. The story suggested by the trailer is often ''miles'' away from the actual film's plot, and new lines of dialog are actually looped in to perpetuate the fraud.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: [[spoiler:Brentwood takes her eyes off Breacher for only a few seconds at the end of the movie, which leads to his escape]].
* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Sugar's inferred demise after his getaway car slams into the back of a tow truck.]]
* OohMeAccentsSlipping:
** Sam Worthington, from time to time.
** Olivia Williams' accent wavers between Southern drawl, flat American, and her native ReceivedPronunciation.
* OneLastSmoke: [[spoiler: Mortally wounded in a Mexican dive bar, Breacher enjoys a last drink and a cigar before bleeding to death.]]
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Most of the squad. Only Breacher and Lizzy are regularly referred to by their real names.
* PerpSweating: The interrogations the team underwent. Seems like the DEA figured the best way to get Breacher's team to confess was to yell at them and taunt them.
* PostClimaxConfrontation: [[spoiler:The shootout in the Mexican bar]].
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Despite Breacher's claim that his team are some of the best undercover operatives around, when they aren't on a raid, they mostly party, brawl, and rag on each other.
* ReassignedToAntarctica: The team, with a side of KickedUpstairs for Breacher. It's implied that the DEA was trying to get them to either quit or confess.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Almost ''immediately'' after [[spoiler: confessing to Brentwood that they did steal the money, Grinder takes a bullet to the head.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Subverted. The team comes to the conclusion that one of their own is killing them off, and Grinder promises to kill any of the others if he sees them before riding off. The next scene is him spilling the beans to Brentwood, and right after that he apologizes to Breacher.
* ShootOutTheLock: Breacher's main task on raids, and hence his nickname.
* SlashedThroat: How [[spoiler:Lizzy]] kills [[spoiler:Monster]].
* SlobsVersusSnobs: Breacher's team's opinion of Brentwood. Includes an attempted BreakTheHaughty moment when Brentwood walks in on the squad partying, and Grinder menacingly demands she have a beer with them. Unfazed, Brentwood's response is to shake the bottle and spray Grinder with beer.
* SnuffFilm: Breacher gets one - of his family being tortured and killed by a cartel thug.
* StripperCopConfusion: Happens to Brentwood when she arrives at Breacher's house to get a statement from a team member. She's not dressed in anything resembling a police uniform, so it seems like the gang are mocking her just to be dicks. Then, of course, a ''real'' stripper arrives just as she is leaving.
* TokenMinority: Sugar and Jackson, both of whom are black.
* WhamLine: See BittersweetEnding.
* WhatAnIdiot: The Cartel soldier with the machinegun who fires through a wall at the team but aims well above their heads giving them plenty of time to duck and running out of ammo before he can lower the weapon down enough to hit them.
* WorkoutFanservice: Breacher in the gym.
* YourCheatingHeart: Monster suspects Lizzy is two-timing him when she tries to leave their house with a pistol and two condoms in her purse. [[spoiler:She is, which leads to her AccidentalPublicConfession.]]
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* ActionGirl[=/=]FieryRedhead: Lizzy.
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* ActionGirl[=/=]FieryRedhead: Lizzy.
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* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Grinder gets his brains blown out by Lizzy]].

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** [[spoiler:Monster, who is stabbed by Lizzy and then literally StuffedIntoTheFridge.]]

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** [[spoiler:Monster, who is stabbed by Lizzy and then literally StuffedIntoTheFridge.]]stuffed into a fridge]].



* DarkActionGirl: [[spoiler:Lizzy]]



* FieryRedhead: Lizzy.



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* [[spoiler: TheHeroDies: Breacher [[spoiler:Breacher at the end.]]



* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Breacher's entire team is dead by the end of the movie. [[TheHeroDies Including Breacher himself]]]].

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* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Breacher's KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Breacher's entire team is dead by the end of the movie. [[TheHeroDies Including Breacher himself]]]].



* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Sam Worthington, from time to time.

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* PerpSweating / ThePerryMasonMethod: The interrogations the team underwent. Seems like the DEA figured the best way to get Breacher's team to confess was to yell at them and taunt them.

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* PerpSweating / ThePerryMasonMethod: PerpSweating: The interrogations the team underwent. Seems like the DEA figured the best way to get Breacher's team to confess was to yell at them and taunt them.



* StuffedIntoTheFridge: A literal example - [[spoiler:Breacher and Brentwood find Monster's body in the fridge after Lizzy stabs him]].
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* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: Some Guatemalan hitters kill Tripod, but [[spoiler: Lizzie and and possibly Sugar kill them and plant their DNA and fingerprints at Pyro's RV to throw the investigation off the track. It would have worked if the hitters hadn't been dredged up.]]
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''Sabotage'' is a 2014 thriller directed by David Ayer, and written by Skip Woods and Ayer.

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* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Lizzie does this to ascertain the contents of some jugs of pure liquid meth found during a raid.

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* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Lizzie does this to ascertain the contents of some jugs of pure liquid meth found during a raid. A bit more justified than usual however, in that the team freak right the hell out when she does this, and she's a FunctionalAddict anyway.
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* BecauseImGoodAtIt: Grinder remarks that his life is basically over [[spoiler: after he tells Brentwood the truth]], because his career is basically over and he doesn’t know how to do anything else. [[spoiler: He’s shot in the head immediately afterwards, so it’s rendered irrelevant.]]

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* BecauseImGoodAtIt: Grinder remarks that his life is basically over [[spoiler: after he tells Brentwood the truth]], because his career is basically over doomed and he doesn’t know how to do anything else. [[spoiler: He’s shot in the head immediately afterwards, so it’s rendered irrelevant.]]
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* BecauseImGoodAtIt: Grinder remarks that his life is basically over [[spoiler: after he tells Brentwood the truth]], because his career is basically over and he doesn’t know how to do anything else. [[spoiler: He’s shot in the head immediately afterwards, so it’s rendered irrelevant.]]


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* BottomlessMagazines: He does reload at one point, but Breacher fires about twice as many rounds as his .45 has any right to hold in the final fight.
* CementShoes: [[spoiler: The Guatemalans were weighted down, wrapped in chicken wire to keep the bloat from making them pop up, but they get pulled up by a fisherman’s anchor.]]


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* FailedASpotCheck: None of Breacher's highly-trained DEA team realized that the one Mexican police officer ''not'' wearing a helmet or balaclava might be someone to watch, since officers need to do that to hide their identities or risk Cartel retribution. At the end of the film somehow in the middle of Mexico a bunch of cartel guards didn’t manage to spot the giant Austrian man until it was way too late, although it's admittedly in a dark bar and he’s dressed to blend in.


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* HeKnowsTooMuch: The team captured a high-level drug lord in Juarez and was about to turn him over to the Mexican federal police. Then a Cartel hitter dressed as one of the Mexicans shot the guy in the head to prevent the man from talking.


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* HeroicBSOD: Brentwood has a brief FreakOut after finding out [[spoiler: Breacher stole the money that lasts just long enough for him to disappear.]]
* IWasNeverHere: Inverted example. [[spoiler: The man Breacher bribes makes it very clear to him that the official story is they never met.]]


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* OneLastSmoke: [[spoiler: Mortally wounded in a Mexican dive bar, Breacher enjoys a last drink and a cigar before bleeding to death.]]


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* ReassignedToAntarctica: The team, with a side of KickedUpstairs for Breacher. It's implied that the DEA was trying to get them to either quit or confess.
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Almost ''immediately'' after [[spoiler: confessing to Brentwood that they did steal the money, Grinder takes a bullet to the head.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Subverted. The team comes to the conclusion that one of their own is killing them off, and Grinder promises to kill any of the others if he sees them before riding off. The next scene is him spilling the beans to Brentwood, and right after that he apologizes to Breacher.
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* CigaretteOfAnxiety: Brentwood, after they find Neck ''nailed to the ceiling''.



* CutApart: Tripod's death - it seems like Breacher and Brentwood show up at his house at the same time as a trio of gunmen, but it turns out that the gunmen got there much earlier than they did and killed Tripod.



* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Tripod was apparently a Navy SEAL. Breacher's entire team is allegedly an elite DEA unit, but [[RagTagBunchOfMisfits you'd never know it to look at them.]]



* PerpSweating / ThePerryMasonMethod: The interrogations the team underwent. Seems like the DEA figured the best way to get Breacher's team to confess was to yell at them and taunt them.



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John "Breacher" Wharton (Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger) is the leader of an [[BadassCrew elite team of DEA agents]], including James "Monster" Murray ([[Film/{{AVATAR}} Sam Worthington]]) and his wife Lizzy Murray ([[Film/WorldWarZ Mireille]] [[TheKilling Enos]]), Joe "Grinder" Philips (a hulking, bison-like Joe Manganiello), Creator/JoeManganiello), Julius "Sugar" Edmonds ([[Film/IronMan Terrence Howard]]), Eddie "Neck" Jordan (Creator/JoshHolloway) and Tom "Pyro" Roberts ([[Film/PacificRim Max]] [[CaptainPhillips Martini]]). The team comes under investigation for pilfering money from a bust on a drug cartel's safe house. Turns out they DID pilfer the money, but someone made off with it before they could retrieve it. As if the investigation and their own suspicions about each other weren't enough, they are now being killed off one by one, and UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} Police investigator Caroline Brentwood (Olivia Williams) is shining an additional light on the team's activities. Is it the cartel exacting their revenge, or is one of the team members the killer?
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* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: Lizzy when she is found out. She goes on a psychotic, drugged up killing spree before being killed.]]

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John "Breacher" Wharton (Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger) is the leader of an [[BadassCrew elite team of DEA agents]], including James "Monster" Murray ([[Film/{{AVATAR}} Sam Worthington]]) and his wife Lizzy Murray ([[WorldWarZ Mireille]] [[TheKilling Enos]]), Joe "Grinder" Philips (a hulking, bison-like Joe Manganiello), Julius "Sugar" Edmonds ([[IronMan Terrence Howard]]), Eddie "Neck" Jordan (Creator/JoshHolloway) and Tom "Pyro" Roberts ([[PacificRim Max]] [[CaptainPhillips Martini]]). The team comes under investigation for pilfering money from a bust on a drug cartel's safe house. Turns out they DID pilfer the money, but someone made off with it before they could retrieve it. As if the investigation and their own suspicions about each other weren't enough, they are now being killed off one by one, and UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} Police investigator Caroline Brentwood (Olivia Williams) is shining an additional light on the team's activities. Is it the cartel exacting their revenge, or is one of the team members the killer?

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John "Breacher" Wharton (Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger) is the leader of an [[BadassCrew elite team of DEA agents]], including James "Monster" Murray ([[Film/{{AVATAR}} Sam Worthington]]) and his wife Lizzy Murray ([[WorldWarZ ([[Film/WorldWarZ Mireille]] [[TheKilling Enos]]), Joe "Grinder" Philips (a hulking, bison-like Joe Manganiello), Julius "Sugar" Edmonds ([[IronMan ([[Film/IronMan Terrence Howard]]), Eddie "Neck" Jordan (Creator/JoshHolloway) and Tom "Pyro" Roberts ([[PacificRim ([[Film/PacificRim Max]] [[CaptainPhillips Martini]]). The team comes under investigation for pilfering money from a bust on a drug cartel's safe house. Turns out they DID pilfer the money, but someone made off with it before they could retrieve it. As if the investigation and their own suspicions about each other weren't enough, they are now being killed off one by one, and UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} Police investigator Caroline Brentwood (Olivia Williams) is shining an additional light on the team's activities. Is it the cartel exacting their revenge, or is one of the team members the killer?
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* FingertipDrugAnalysis: Lizzie does this to ascertain the contents of some jugs found in a raid containing pure liquid meth.

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* AccidentalPublicConfession: [[spoiler:Lizzy admits she's been cheating on Monster with Sugar. As betrayed as Monster feels, Sugar is ''horrified'' that their affair was just just revealed to the entire team.]]

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* StripperCopConfusion: Happens to Brentwood when she arrives at Breacher's house to get a statement from a team member. And of course, the ''real'' stripper arrives just as she is leaving.

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* StripperCopConfusion: Happens to Brentwood when she arrives at Breacher's house to get a statement from a team member. And She's not dressed in anything resembling a police uniform, so it seems like the gang are mocking her just to be dicks. Then, of course, the a ''real'' stripper arrives just as she is leaving.
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* AgentsDating: During the course of the investigation, [[spoiler:Breacher and Brentwood start to get close...a little ''too'' close.]]
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John "Breacher" Wharton (Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger) is the leader of an [[BadassCrew elite team of DEA agents]], including James "Monster" Murray ([[Film/{{AVATAR}} Sam Worthington]]) and his wife Lizzy Murray ([[WorldWarZ Mireille]] [[TheKilling Enos]]), Joe "Grinder" Philips (a hulking, bison-like Joe Manganiello), Julius "Sugar" Edmonds ([[IronMan Terrence Howard]]), Eddie "Neck" Jordan (Creator/JoshHolloway) and Tom "Pyro" Roberts ([[PacificRim Max]] [[CaptainPhillips Martini]]). The team comes under investigation for pilfering money from a bust on a drug cartel's safe house. Turns out they DID pilfer the money, but someone made off with it before they could retrieve it. As if the investigation and their own suspicions about each other weren't enough, they are now being killed off one by one, and a local police investigator, Caroline Brentwood (Olivia Williams) is shining an additional light on the team's activities. Is it the cartel exacting their revenge, or is one of the team members the killer?

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John "Breacher" Wharton (Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger) is the leader of an [[BadassCrew elite team of DEA agents]], including James "Monster" Murray ([[Film/{{AVATAR}} Sam Worthington]]) and his wife Lizzy Murray ([[WorldWarZ Mireille]] [[TheKilling Enos]]), Joe "Grinder" Philips (a hulking, bison-like Joe Manganiello), Julius "Sugar" Edmonds ([[IronMan Terrence Howard]]), Eddie "Neck" Jordan (Creator/JoshHolloway) and Tom "Pyro" Roberts ([[PacificRim Max]] [[CaptainPhillips Martini]]). The team comes under investigation for pilfering money from a bust on a drug cartel's safe house. Turns out they DID pilfer the money, but someone made off with it before they could retrieve it. As if the investigation and their own suspicions about each other weren't enough, they are now being killed off one by one, and a local police investigator, UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}} Police investigator Caroline Brentwood (Olivia Williams) is shining an additional light on the team's activities. Is it the cartel exacting their revenge, or is one of the team members the killer?
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* StripperCopConfusion: Happens to Brentwood when she arrives at Breacher's house to get a statement from a team member. And of course, the ''real'' stripper arrives just as she is leaving.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Monster suspects Lizzy is two-timing him when she tries to leave their house with a pistol and two condoms in her purse. [[spoiler:She is, which leads to her AccidentalPublicConfession.]]
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** [[spoiler:Monster, who is stabbed by Lizzy and then literally StuffedIntoTheFridge.]]


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* OffWithHisHead: [[spoiler:Sugar's inferred demise after his getaway car slams into the back of a tow truck.]]

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