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* FlashbackBPlot: More often than not, Ho-tian and Jiao-hao will have flashbacks to their pasts when they are kids, promising to look out for each other, before the scene cuts back to the present where they were adults. Notably [[spoiler: the last scene of the two brothers together: Ho-tian holding on Jia-hao's corpse and telling him not to die, while intersect with a MatchCut depicting a flashback of Ho-tian (as a child) holding a feverish, seriously ill Jia-hao (ditto) telling his younger brother to wake up]].
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* FlashbackBPlot: More often than not, Ho-tian and Jiao-hao will have flashbacks to their pasts when they are kids, promising to look out for each other, before the scene cuts back to the present where they were adults. Notably [[spoiler: the [[spoiler:the last scene of the two brothers together: Ho-tian holding on Jia-hao's corpse and telling him not to die, while intersect with a MatchCut depicting a flashback of Ho-tian (as a child) holding a feverish, seriously ill Jia-hao (ditto) telling his younger brother to wake up]].
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* FlashbackBPlot: More often than not, Ho-tian and Jiao-hao will have flashbacks to their pasts when they are kids, promising to look out for each other, before the scene cuts back to the present where they were adults. Notably [[spoiler: the last scene of the two brothers together: Ho-tian holding on Jia-hao's corpse and telling him not to die, while intersect with a MatchCut depicting a flashback of Ho-tian (as a child) holding a feverish, seriously ill Jia-hao (ditto) telling his younger brother to wake up]].
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* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: More often than not, Ho-tian and Jiao-hao will have flashbacks to their pasts when they are kids, promising to look out for each other, before the scene cuts back to the present where they were adults. Notably [[spoiler: the last scene of the two brothers together: Ho-tian holding on Jia-hao's corpse and telling him not to die, while intersect with a MatchCut depicting a flashback of Ho-tian (as a child) holding a feverish, seriously ill Jia-hao (ditto) telling his younger brother to wake up]].
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* WeddingDay: The climax of the movie is the shootout happening at [[spoiler: Angie and Ho-tian's wedding]]. It ends with [[spoiler: Ho-tian personally executing Boss Hung]], [[spoiler: Shen-miao shooting Jia-hao InTheBack]], and [[spoiler: Angie killed in the crossfire]].
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Lin Ho-tian is an elite assassin, a ProfessionalKiller, but also a HitmanWithAHeart, trying to make a living in 1940s Shanghai. During a hit assignment, Ho-tian discovers his estranged younger brother, Wan Jia-hao, sold to a crime family while a kid, is actually still alive, and is ruling the Shanghai underworld with an iron fist. When killers coming after Jia-hao crosses path with Ho-tian, Ho-tian will have to convince Jia-hao of their past brotherhood and try to save his brother from going down a further path of self-destruction.
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Lin Ho-tian is an elite assassin, a ProfessionalKiller, but also a HitmanWithAHeart, trying to make a living in 1940s Shanghai. During a hit assignment, Ho-tian discovers his estranged younger brother, Wan Jia-hao, who was sold to a crime family while a kid, is actually still alive, and is ruling intending to take over the Shanghai underworld and rule with an iron fist. When killers coming after Jia-hao crosses path with Ho-tian, Ho-tian will have to convince Jia-hao of their past brotherhood and try to save his brother from going down a further path of self-destruction.
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Ho-tian displays his accuracy with a pistol by running and shooting at the same time, at glass bottle targets from more than twenty meters away, including a LeapAndFire. And hits EVERY bottle without missing a single shot.
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Lin Ho-tian is an elite assassin, a ProfessionalKiller, but also a HitmanWithAHeart, who trying to make a living in 1940s Shanghai. During a hit assignment, Ho-tian discovers his estranged younger brother, Wan Jia-hao, sold to a crime family while a kid, is actually still alive, and is ruling the Shanghai underworld with an iron fist. When killers coming after Jia-hao crosses path with Ho-tian, Ho-tian will have to convince Jia-hao of their past brotherhood and try to save his brother from going down a further path of self-destruction.
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See also ''Film/BloodBrothers2007'' and ''Film/TheGameChanger'' for films with similar themes, settings, and action scenes.
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[[caption-width-right:184:Just another regular blood-soaked, gangster-shooting day in 1940s Shanghai...]]
The Duel of the Brothers is a 2018 action movie set in the 1940s criminal underworld in Shanghai, the city of vice and center of triad activities. True to all movies with this setting, [[HeroicBloodshed of this particular genre]], the movie touches themes of loyalty, brotherhood, rising in power in the triads, and the inevitable downfall that comes after reaching the top.
Lin Ho-tian is an elite assassin, a ProfessionalKiller, but also a HitmanWithAHeart, who discovers his estranged younger brother, Wan Jia-hao, sold to a crime family while a kid, is actually still alive, and is ruling the Shanghai underworld with an iron fist. When killers coming after Jia-hao crosses path with Ho-tian, Ho-tian will have to convince Jia-hao of their past brotherhood and try to save his brother from going down a further path of self-destruction.
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!!The Duel of the Brothers contains examples of:
* AccidentalAimingSkills: While a recovering Ho-tian is setting up glass bottles for him to practice shooting skills, Angie, who is polishing his gun, accidentally pulls the trigger and fires a round remaining in the chamber, hitting a bottle dead center.
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: The above scene where Angie is polishing Ho-tian's pistol. Why would she even think that was a good idea? Even if the gun isn't loaded (it IS) she might end up damaging it, which would badly screw over Ho-tian when he inevitably needs that pistol to use in shootouts. Of course, that's not going into details on why would a trained professional assassin allow a woman he knew for barely a month touch his pistol in the first place.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Both the brothers Ho-tian and Jia-hao are often seen in slick black or white suits.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: [[spoiler: In the final standoff scene, Ho-tian shoots Jia-hao's pistol out of his hands just as he's pointing his gun on Angie in a rage]].
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: [[spoiler: On Angie, after she gets shot through the stomach in the final scene]].
* BodyDouble: Ho-tian managed to assasinate Boss Hung in the second act... except he didn't. That is a decoy he sniped, deliberately set up by Boss Hung to lure him into a trap.
* ColdSniper: Hao-tian and his partner / fellow assassin, DarkActionGirl Shen-miao. Especially the latter; after Ho-tian had assasinated a mob boss in his introduction scene but is unable to shoot the boss' family, Shen-miao took over and snipes the boss' wife and young son immediately. When he confronts her about shooting a woman and a child in the next scene, she simply replies with the typical "[[NothingPersonal It's just business]]" respond.
* FriendToAllChildren: Ho-tian, who frequently hangs out with a group of street urchins, giving them food and often bonding with those kids who considers him as a CoolUncle. Justified, since Ho-tian grew up in the back alleys as a street urchin.
* LongLostRelative: Ho-tian and Jia-hao, respectively a triad assassin and a mob boss, who turns out to be brothers by blood, until Jia-hao as a child was sold to a triad family.
* HeroicBloodshed: Two brothers growing up in a triad underworld, who ends up on different sides, inevitably becoming enemies despite realizing they are brothers, where their loyalty to their organization and each other will be put to the test. Sounds like something Creator/JohnWoo would make.
* HeroicRROD: Ho-tian suffers a really nasty one at the third act, after realizing his long-lost brother, Jia-hao, no longer considers him as family, telling straight to his face that the brother he knew as a child was dead, before smashing a glass vase on Ho-tian's head.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Lin Ho-tian, a hitman who refuse to perform hits if women and children are involved. Unfortunately, his fellow assassin Shen-miao disagrees with his actions.
* NonIndicativeTitle: Despite the title, [[spoiler: at the end of the movie the brothers Ho-tian and Jia-hao didn't get to fight to shoot each other, since Jia-hao dies before he can acknowledge Ho-tian as a brother]].
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Happens throughout the movie: The rival mob boss assasinated by Ho-tian in the opening scene, a few mooks in the nightclub shootout, another triad boss Ho-tian shoots through the temple, a few mobsters sniped by Shen-miao, among others.
* StoicSpectacles: On Ho-tian in the final scene, when he's disguised as a musician to blend into [[spoiler: Jia-hao and Angie's wedding ceremony]].
* SkywardScream: [[spoiler: Ho-tian at the end of the movie does this while holding his estranged brother Jia-hao's corpse, shot on his wedding day]].
*ATasteOfTheLash: Jia-hao suffers a flogging and beating after getting arrested by a police superintedant for being a suspect of the nightclub assasination scene.
* ThatManIsDead: A variation. [[spoiler: When the long-lost brothers Ho-tian and Jia-Hao confronts each other face-to-face, Jia-hao said to Ho-tian's face "his brother is dead"]].
--> '''Jia-hao''' (to Ho-tian, after the revelation of their relation as brothers): [[spoiler: "I have never looked for you all these years! Do you want to know why? Because, to me... [[WhamLine my brother is dead]]! '''[[SuddenlyShouting I DO NOT HAVE A BROTHER]]'''!" ]]
* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: More often than not, Ho-tian and Jiao-hao will have flashbacks to their pasts when they are kids, promising to look out for each other, before the scene cuts back to the present where they were adults. Notably [[spoiler: the last scene of the two brothers together: Ho-tian holding on Jia-hao's corpse and telling him not to die, while intersect with a MatchCut depicting a flashback of Ho-tian (as a child) holding a feverish, seriously ill Jia-hao (ditto) telling his younger brother to wake up]].
* WeddingDay: The climax of the movie is the shootout happening at [[spoiler: Angie and Ho-tian's wedding]]. It ends with [[spoiler: Ho-tian personally executing Boss Hung]], [[spoiler: Shen-miao shooting Jia-hao InTheBack]], and [[spoiler: Angie killed in the crossfire]].
* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: After Ho-tian gets a stray round into his shoulder during the nightclub shootout scene, Jia-hao had to deliver him back to his mansion, where his lover Angie assist Ho-tian to remove the bullet. It's one of the most graphic depiction of a bullet removal ever put in a film, which should invoke plenty of squick.
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[[caption-width-right:184:Just another regular blood-soaked, gangster-shooting day in 1940s Shanghai...]]
The Duel of the Brothers is a 2018 action movie set in the 1940s criminal underworld in Shanghai, the city of vice and center of triad activities. True to all movies with this setting, [[HeroicBloodshed of this particular genre]], the movie touches themes of loyalty, brotherhood, rising in power in the triads, and the inevitable downfall that comes after reaching the top.
Lin Ho-tian is an elite assassin, a ProfessionalKiller, but also a HitmanWithAHeart, who discovers his estranged younger brother, Wan Jia-hao, sold to a crime family while a kid, is actually still alive, and is ruling the Shanghai underworld with an iron fist. When killers coming after Jia-hao crosses path with Ho-tian, Ho-tian will have to convince Jia-hao of their past brotherhood and try to save his brother from going down a further path of self-destruction.
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!!The Duel of the Brothers contains examples of:
* AccidentalAimingSkills: While a recovering Ho-tian is setting up glass bottles for him to practice shooting skills, Angie, who is polishing his gun, accidentally pulls the trigger and fires a round remaining in the chamber, hitting a bottle dead center.
* ArtisticLicenseGunSafety: The above scene where Angie is polishing Ho-tian's pistol. Why would she even think that was a good idea? Even if the gun isn't loaded (it IS) she might end up damaging it, which would badly screw over Ho-tian when he inevitably needs that pistol to use in shootouts. Of course, that's not going into details on why would a trained professional assassin allow a woman he knew for barely a month touch his pistol in the first place.
* BadassInANiceSuit: Both the brothers Ho-tian and Jia-hao are often seen in slick black or white suits.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: [[spoiler: In the final standoff scene, Ho-tian shoots Jia-hao's pistol out of his hands just as he's pointing his gun on Angie in a rage]].
* BloodSplatteredWeddingDress: [[spoiler: On Angie, after she gets shot through the stomach in the final scene]].
* BodyDouble: Ho-tian managed to assasinate Boss Hung in the second act... except he didn't. That is a decoy he sniped, deliberately set up by Boss Hung to lure him into a trap.
* ColdSniper: Hao-tian and his partner / fellow assassin, DarkActionGirl Shen-miao. Especially the latter; after Ho-tian had assasinated a mob boss in his introduction scene but is unable to shoot the boss' family, Shen-miao took over and snipes the boss' wife and young son immediately. When he confronts her about shooting a woman and a child in the next scene, she simply replies with the typical "[[NothingPersonal It's just business]]" respond.
* FriendToAllChildren: Ho-tian, who frequently hangs out with a group of street urchins, giving them food and often bonding with those kids who considers him as a CoolUncle. Justified, since Ho-tian grew up in the back alleys as a street urchin.
* LongLostRelative: Ho-tian and Jia-hao, respectively a triad assassin and a mob boss, who turns out to be brothers by blood, until Jia-hao as a child was sold to a triad family.
* HeroicBloodshed: Two brothers growing up in a triad underworld, who ends up on different sides, inevitably becoming enemies despite realizing they are brothers, where their loyalty to their organization and each other will be put to the test. Sounds like something Creator/JohnWoo would make.
* HeroicRROD: Ho-tian suffers a really nasty one at the third act, after realizing his long-lost brother, Jia-hao, no longer considers him as family, telling straight to his face that the brother he knew as a child was dead, before smashing a glass vase on Ho-tian's head.
* HitmanWithAHeart: Lin Ho-tian, a hitman who refuse to perform hits if women and children are involved. Unfortunately, his fellow assassin Shen-miao disagrees with his actions.
* NonIndicativeTitle: Despite the title, [[spoiler: at the end of the movie the brothers Ho-tian and Jia-hao didn't get to fight to shoot each other, since Jia-hao dies before he can acknowledge Ho-tian as a brother]].
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Happens throughout the movie: The rival mob boss assasinated by Ho-tian in the opening scene, a few mooks in the nightclub shootout, another triad boss Ho-tian shoots through the temple, a few mobsters sniped by Shen-miao, among others.
* StoicSpectacles: On Ho-tian in the final scene, when he's disguised as a musician to blend into [[spoiler: Jia-hao and Angie's wedding ceremony]].
* SkywardScream: [[spoiler: Ho-tian at the end of the movie does this while holding his estranged brother Jia-hao's corpse, shot on his wedding day]].
*ATasteOfTheLash: Jia-hao suffers a flogging and beating after getting arrested by a police superintedant for being a suspect of the nightclub assasination scene.
* ThatManIsDead: A variation. [[spoiler: When the long-lost brothers Ho-tian and Jia-Hao confronts each other face-to-face, Jia-hao said to Ho-tian's face "his brother is dead"]].
--> '''Jia-hao''' (to Ho-tian, after the revelation of their relation as brothers): [[spoiler: "I have never looked for you all these years! Do you want to know why? Because, to me... [[WhamLine my brother is dead]]! '''[[SuddenlyShouting I DO NOT HAVE A BROTHER]]'''!" ]]
* TwoLinesDifferentTimes: More often than not, Ho-tian and Jiao-hao will have flashbacks to their pasts when they are kids, promising to look out for each other, before the scene cuts back to the present where they were adults. Notably [[spoiler: the last scene of the two brothers together: Ho-tian holding on Jia-hao's corpse and telling him not to die, while intersect with a MatchCut depicting a flashback of Ho-tian (as a child) holding a feverish, seriously ill Jia-hao (ditto) telling his younger brother to wake up]].
* WeddingDay: The climax of the movie is the shootout happening at [[spoiler: Angie and Ho-tian's wedding]]. It ends with [[spoiler: Ho-tian personally executing Boss Hung]], [[spoiler: Shen-miao shooting Jia-hao InTheBack]], and [[spoiler: Angie killed in the crossfire]].
* WeHaveToGetTheBulletOut: After Ho-tian gets a stray round into his shoulder during the nightclub shootout scene, Jia-hao had to deliver him back to his mansion, where his lover Angie assist Ho-tian to remove the bullet. It's one of the most graphic depiction of a bullet removal ever put in a film, which should invoke plenty of squick.
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--> '''Jia-hao''' (to Ho-tian, after the revelation of their relation as brothers): [[spoiler: [[spoiler: "I have never looked for you all these years! Do you want to know why? Because, to me... [[WhamLine my brother is dead]]! '''[[SuddenlyShouting I DO NOT HAVE A BROTHER]]'''!" ]]
