History Film / Samaritan

* DropTheHammer: Nemesis forged a sledgehammer with which to kill his brother, containing all his hate and rage. Even when wielded by a normal person, it's shown to hit with superhuman force.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Cyrus' [[TheDragon Dragon]] Farshad has a [[IncrediblyLamePun short-lived one]] moment of this when Joe rams one of the blackout grenades into his belly and activates it.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Cyrus' [[TheDragon Farshad]] has a [[IncrediblyLamePun short-lived one]] moment of this when Joe rams one of the blackout grenades into his belly and activates it.

* ArbitrarySkepticism: Justified. The journalist who had been researching on Samaritan's uncertain fate repeatedly dismissed Sam's claims that he found the legendary hero's whereabouts. A professional adult doesn't make his decisions based on hearsay from the words of a young teen, especially one who had gotten it wrong a few times before. Even after Sam showed him a knife being crushed by Joe's bare hands, the journalist remained skeptical and theorized an alternative possibility for how that could have happened.
* TheAtoner: Hinted by Joe Smith. Joe explains his current hobby of fixing things: casually crushed a toaster with his hands, pointing out that destroying is easy and fixing is a bigger challenge, and he likes giving old broken things a second chance. [[spoiler:Like Samaritan gave him at the climax of their fight]].

* DisneyVillainDeath: [[spoiler: Nemesis restrained Cyrus with the handle of his own hammer and threw him off a burning, collapsing building, where Cyrus fell off to his own unseen doom. A flashback Joe has prior shows that his twin Samaritan apparently perished this way at their climatic duel at the power plant, with the fire-damaged building collapsing underneath him in much the same way that [[HistoryRepeats Joe's current duel with Cyrus echoes]]]].

* {{Homage}}: Cyrus' lair features in some scenes the ''VideoGame/RoboCop'' arcade cabinet, as a way to evoke that film's atmospheres of urban decay and the theme of a lone vigilante against hordes of gangbangers, without actually lifting scenes from the movie.

* IntergenerationalFriendship: Even though Joe Smith is mostly annoyed by Sam at the beginning, they become Friends over the course of the movie.

* MistakenIdentity: [[spoiler: Everybody thinks Joe Smith is the the retired Hero Samaritan, but he really is his twin brother Nemesis.]]
* MuggingTheMonster: At one point, Joe is attacked by a gang of thugs in an alley. After [[NoSell no-selling]] a blow to the back of the head, all he can say is "Really?" before taking them all out single-handed.

* RetiredBadass: After their final confrontation at the power plant, Nemesis and Samaritan were presumed dead. Samartian hasn't fought crime in a quarter-century, having resigned himself to the life of a garbage collector under the name Joe Smith.

* AntiHero: [[spoiler: Joe Smith isn't Samaritan but is actually his twin brother Nemesis, inspired to do good after Samaritan's death. He doesn't follow his heroic brother's footsteps, but mostly stays out of trouble and minding his own business. He only came to stop Cyrus when he learnt that the latter kidnapped Sam, who Joe had befriended earlier on, and kills both Cyrus and his mooks rather violently]].

The film follows Sam Cleary (Javon Walton), a young boy who suspects that a local garbage man, Joe Smith (Creator/SylvesterStallone), is secretly Samaritan, a superhero who had disappeared after an epic battle twenty five years prior. Also starring is Creator/MartinStarr, Creator/NatachaKaram, Creator/DaschaPolanco, Creator/PilouAsbaek, and Creator/ShameikMoore. The film released on Creator/PrimeVideo on August 26, 2022.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's not entirely clear how good a superhero Samaritan was, or even, how bad a villain Nemesis was. Sam sees Samaritan as a hero for saving his father, while Cyrus identifies with Nemesis, to the point of taking over his mantle. Both are incredibly biased in their perspectives, but Cyrus does seem to indicate Samaritan ignored the plight the city's poorer inhabitants. It seems most likely that Nemesis was, at the very least, an AntiVillain or NobleDemon or some sort. [[spoiler:For what it's worth, when Cyrus tries to claim Nemesis was trying to start a revolution at the power plant that he intends to finish, Joe flatly denies he had any motive beyond luring his brother into a trap, indicating that Cyrus is just seeing what he wants to in Nemesis's actions.]]

The film follows Sam Cleary (Javon Walton), a young boy who suspects that a local garbage man, Joe Smith (Creator/SylvesterStallone), is secretly Samaritan, a superhero who had disappeared after an epic battle twenty five years prior. Also starring is Creator/MartinStarr, Creator/NatachaKaram, Creator/DaschaPolanco, and Creator/PilouAsbaek. The film released on Creator/PrimeVideo on August 26, 2022.

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