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* BittersweetEnding: The team makes it home, but [[spoiler:Redfly has died and the biggest part of the money had to be abandoned in a crevasse in the Andes. Then everyone in the team donates their (not unsignificant, but much less sizeable than expected) share of the money from the heist to Redfly's family, so it was pretty much AllForNothing for them personally, or so it seems... until Pope is given the geographic coordinates of the money by Ironhead, so he'll certainly plan an operation to get there and pick it up.]]

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* BittersweetEnding: The team makes it home, but [[spoiler:Redfly has died and the biggest part of the money had to be abandoned in a crevasse in the Andes. Then everyone in the team donates their (not unsignificant, but much less sizeable than expected) share of the money from the heist to Redfly's family, so it was pretty much AllForNothing for them personally, or so it seems... until Pope is given the geographic coordinates of the money by Ironhead, so he'll certainly plan an operation to get go back there and pick it up.]]

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* ChekhovsSkill: Ironhead is shown to have an excellent memory, being able to remember the number of times he's given a speech to new recruits. [[spoiler: At the end, he turns out to have memorized the location and coordinates of where the team dumped the money.]]

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* ChekhovsGunman: [[spoiler:The young man with the yellow football shirt is obviously seething with revenge at Redfly [[YouKilledMyFather because he shot his dad]]. A couple of scenes (and several hundred miles through the Andes and a few days later) it turns out that he chased the team down and shoots Redfly on the head.]]
* ChekhovsSkill: Ironhead is shown to have an excellent memory, being able to remember the number of times he's given a speech to new recruits. [[spoiler: At [[spoiler:At the end, he turns out to have memorized the location and coordinates of where the team dumped the money.]]
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* ShortLivedAerialEscape: The team's helicopter evacuation over the Andean mountains doesn't last very long due to them overloading the aircraft with money.
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** Redfly is a highly-trained special operator, but there's nothing he can do when one of the young men from the village [[spoiler: pops up behind him and shoots him in the head.]]

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** Redfly is a highly-trained special operator, but there's nothing he can do when one of the young men from the village [[spoiler: pops up behind him by surprise and shoots him in the head.]]
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*IdiotBall: It is established early on that Redfly is a highly skilled special operator and tactician obviously conditioned to remain calm in stressful situations.[[spoiler:He really should have known that overloading his vehicles with so much money would cause them to break down and leave him and his friends in a dangerous place.]] The same goes for all other team members.

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* DramaticIrony: [[spoiler: The team steals more money than they'd originally planned to or could even feasibly transport. As a result, they gradually lose more and more of the cash, until they end up with peanuts compared to even their original score and Redfly in a body bag]].



* FatalFlaw: The greed of some team members leads to ''major'' troubles that derail the entire operation. [[spoiler:Ironically , Redfly , whom everyone considers the most moral and balanced of his team , is the one who ends up making the robbery go off the rails , forcing everyone to be the prey of a manhunt that results in many deaths , including his own , just because he wanted to steal even more money, thus causing his helicopter to crash because of the excessive weight!]]

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* FatalFlaw: The greed of some team members leads to ''major'' troubles that derail the entire operation. [[spoiler:Ironically , Redfly , [[spoiler:Ironically, Redfly, whom everyone considers the most moral and balanced of his team , team, is the one who ends up making the robbery go off the rails , rails, forcing everyone to be the prey of a manhunt that results in many deaths , deaths, including his own , own, just because he wanted to steal even more money, thus money and causing his helicopter to crash because all sorts of logistical issues in the excessive weight!]]end]].
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* FatalFlaw: The greed of some team members leads to ''major'' troubles that derail the entire operation. [[Spoiler:Ironically , Redfly , whom everyone considers the most moral and balanced of his team , is the one who ends up making the robbery go off the rails , forcing everyone to be the prey of a manhunt that results in many deaths , including his own , just because he wanted to steal even more money, thus causing his helicopter to crash because of the excessive weight!]]

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* FatalFlaw: The greed of some team members leads to ''major'' troubles that derail the entire operation. [[Spoiler:Ironically [[spoiler:Ironically , Redfly , whom everyone considers the most moral and balanced of his team , is the one who ends up making the robbery go off the rails , forcing everyone to be the prey of a manhunt that results in many deaths , including his own , just because he wanted to steal even more money, thus causing his helicopter to crash because of the excessive weight!]]
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* FatalFlaw: The greed of some team members leads to ''major'' troubles that derail the entire operation.

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* FatalFlaw: The greed of some team members leads to ''major'' troubles that derail the entire operation. [[Spoiler:Ironically , Redfly , whom everyone considers the most moral and balanced of his team , is the one who ends up making the robbery go off the rails , forcing everyone to be the prey of a manhunt that results in many deaths , including his own , just because he wanted to steal even more money, thus causing his helicopter to crash because of the excessive weight!]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Redfly is built up by the film as having at least as much, if not more, importance to thenarrative as Pope, only to die very suddenly with thirty minutes of runtime left in the film. ]]

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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Redfly is built up by the film as having at least as much, if not more, importance to thenarrative the narrative as Pope, only to die very suddenly with thirty minutes of runtime left in the film. ]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Redfly is built up by the film as having at least as much, if not more, importance to narrative as Pope, only to die very suddenly with thirty minutes of runtime left in the film. ]]

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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Redfly is built up by the film as having at least as much, if not more, importance to narrative as thenarrative as Pope, only to die very suddenly with thirty minutes of runtime left in the film. ]]
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The cast includes Creator/OscarIsaac as Santiago "Pope" Gomez, Creator/BenAffleck as Tom "Redfly" Davis, Creator/CharlieHunnam as William "Ironhead" Miller, Creator/GarrettHedlund as Ben "Benny" Miller, Creator/PedroPascal as Francisco "Catfish" Morales, Creator/AdriaArjona as Yovanna, Sheila Vand as Lauren Yates and Reynaldo Gallegos as Gabriel Martin Lorea.

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The cast includes Creator/OscarIsaac as Santiago "Pope" Gomez, Garcia, Creator/BenAffleck as Tom "Redfly" Davis, Creator/CharlieHunnam as William "Ironhead" Miller, Creator/GarrettHedlund as Ben "Benny" Miller, Creator/PedroPascal as Francisco "Catfish" Morales, Creator/AdriaArjona as Yovanna, Sheila Vand as Lauren Yates and Reynaldo Gallegos as Gabriel Martin Lorea.

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* RealityEnsues:

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* RealityEnsues:RedBaron: Four out of the five have nicknames: Tom "Redfly" Davis, Santiago "Pope" Gomez, William "Ironhead" Miller and Francisco "Catfish" Morales.
* RobbingTheMobBank: The five friends' goal is to rob a drug cartel from its money.
* SuicideMission: The recon job is already risky, but the mission turns into this as soon as the team decides to rob the cartel and cross several dangerous areas full of armed people to escape.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Redly gets abruptly shot in the head, with no last word whatsoever.]]
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* RedBaron: Four out of the five have nicknames: Tom "Redfly" Davis, Santiago "Pope" Gomez, William "Ironhead" Miller and Francisco "Catfish" Morales.
* RobbingTheMobBank: The five friends' goal is to rob a drug cartel from its money.
* SuicideMission: The recon job is already risky, but the mission turns into this as soon as the team decides to rob the cartel and cross several dangerous areas full of armed people to escape.
* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Redly gets abruptly shot in the head, with no last word whatsoever.]]
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** Redfly joined in on the heist specifically to finance his family. His GoldFever when he finds out how much money is actually there for the taking causes most of the problems the team faces on the way out of the country, to the point that Benny remarks that in all the time he's known Redfly, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Redfly has ''never'' missed a "hard out,"]] the time they absolutely need to be getting out of the area.

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** Redfly joined in on the heist specifically to finance his family. His GoldFever when he finds out how much money is actually there for the taking causes most of the problems the team faces on the way out of the country, to the point that Benny remarks that in all the time he's known Redfly, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Redfly has ''never'' never missed a "hard out,"]] the time they absolutely need to be getting out of the area.

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* DeathByMaterialism: [[spoiler:Redfly, in retrospect. Had he not insisted to overload the van and later on the helicopter with more money, the helicopter wouldn't have crashed and the perilous journey on foot to the ocean that cost him his life wouldn't have happened.]]



* DeathByMaterialism: [[spoiler:Redfly, in retrospect. Had he not insisted to overload the van and later on the helicopter with more money, the helicopter wouldn't have crashed and the perilous journey on foot to the ocean that cost him his life wouldn't have happened.]]



* MadeOfIron: Ironhead takes a bullet in the side during the heist, and after some brief first aid never makes mention of it again. The entire crew is involved in a chopper crash - Benny even falls out of the bottom of the chopper in midair - and walk it off.



* MoneyToBurn: Benny starts burning a banknote, then a bundle, then a ''whole bag'' of the money to make a campfire despite Redfly's orders to cold-camp.

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* MoneyToBurn: Benny starts burning a banknote, then a bundle, then a ''whole bag'' of the money to make a campfire despite Redfly's orders to cold-camp. It's justified in-story, as there was too much to practically move anyway.


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* RealityEnsues:
** Ironhead is giving a speech as part of his EstablishingCharacterMoment that mentions his difficulty in re-integrating with civilian life, common for soldiers.
** There are only five - six counting Yovanna - people in on the heist itself at all, which would be a ridiculously small number to hit a cartel kingpin's home if the kingpin wasn't also a deeply paranoid man who only keeps a small guard force with him.
** The heist goes near-perfectly at first because they thoroughly reconnoitered the target and have a layout of the compound and precise information on the schedules of the family and the number of guards. The two blind spots they have are where exactly the money is kept and what was past where Yovanna was stopped in the building - both of which cause them serious problems.
** Lorea never leaves his money, as Pope mentions, but a drug lord with a fortified home is going to have a panic room.
** Redfly joined in on the heist specifically to finance his family. His GoldFever when he finds out how much money is actually there for the taking causes most of the problems the team faces on the way out of the country, to the point that Benny remarks that in all the time he's known Redfly, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness Redfly has ''never'' missed a "hard out,"]] the time they absolutely need to be getting out of the area.
** The team takes steps to cover their tracks - killing Lorea to sow confusion in the cartel, using locally-sourced weapons to make it look like local gangs staged the attack, burning down the house to deprive the cartel of the remaining money and evidence, and take it a step further when things start to go bad by killing all the guards, so nobody could identify them. As a result, they get no pursuit from the cartel and only face opposition from people they encounter on their way out of the country.
** The team took far more money than they planned, so the chopper the team obtained to exfiltrate can't handle the weight at the already-high altitude of the Andes, resulting in a crash.
** After an unfortunate shootout with some cocaine farmers, the team leaves a large amount of money with the village chief to square things in the only way they can. Not all of the villagers are onboard with this, and two of them pursue the team to cause problems.
** Redfly is a highly-trained special operator, but there's nothing he can do when one of the young men from the village [[spoiler: pops up behind him and shoots him in the head.]]
** The team is forced to abandon the lions share of the money in a crevice so they can get out with their lives [[spoiler: and Redfly's body. Ironhead takes the obvious step of memorizing the coordinates so the money can be retrieved.]]
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* IWantYouToMeetAnOldFriendOfMine: Creator/OscarIsaac and Creator/PedroPascal, very good friends with each other in real life, previously both performed in the 2006 Off-Broadway production ''The Beauty of the Father''.
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* StubbornMule: One of the mules refuses to move forward while the team is crossing a narrow and steep smuggling way on the flank of a mountain. It winds up falling to its death
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* ChekovsSkill: Ironhead is shown to have an excellent memory, being able to remember the number of times he's given a speech to new recruits. [[spoiler: At the end, he turns out to have memorized the location and coordinates of where the team dumped the money.]]

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* ChekovsSkill: ChekhovsSkill: Ironhead is shown to have an excellent memory, being able to remember the number of times he's given a speech to new recruits. [[spoiler: At the end, he turns out to have memorized the location and coordinates of where the team dumped the money.]]
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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Redfly.]]

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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Redfly.[[spoiler:Redfly bites it.]]
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* ChekovsSkill: Ironhead is shown to have an excellent memory, being able to remember the number of times he's given a speech to new recruits. [[spoiler: At the end, he turns out to have memorized the location and coordinates of where the team dumped the money.]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Redfly is built up by the film as having at least as much, if not more, importance to narrative as Pope, only to die very suddenly with thirty minutes of runtime left in the film.

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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Redfly is built up by the film as having at least as much, if not more, importance to narrative as Pope, only to die very suddenly with thirty minutes of runtime left in the film. ]]
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* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler: Redfly is built up by the film as having at least as much, if not more, importance to narrative as Pope, only to die very suddenly with thirty minutes of runtime left in the film.
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* AnyoneCanDie: [[spoiler:Redfly.]]
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* YouKilledMyFather: Two sons of the men Redfly and Pope had to shoot after the helicopter crash followed the team for revenge in the Andes. [[spoiler:One of them kills Redfly.]]

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* YouKilledMyFather: Two sons of the men Redfly and Pope had to shoot after the helicopter crash followed follow the team for revenge in the Andes. [[spoiler:One of them kills Redfly.]]
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The cast includes Creator/OscarIsaac as Santiago "Pope" Gomez, Creator/BenAffleck as Tom "Redfly" Davis, Creator/CharlieHunnam as William "Ironhead" Miller, Creator/GarrettHedlund as Ben "Benny" Miller, Creator/PedroPascal as Francisco "Catfish" Morales, Adria Arjona as Yovanna, Sheila Vand as Lauren Yates and Reynaldo Gallegos as Gabriel Martin Lorea.

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The cast includes Creator/OscarIsaac as Santiago "Pope" Gomez, Creator/BenAffleck as Tom "Redfly" Davis, Creator/CharlieHunnam as William "Ironhead" Miller, Creator/GarrettHedlund as Ben "Benny" Miller, Creator/PedroPascal as Francisco "Catfish" Morales, Adria Arjona Creator/AdriaArjona as Yovanna, Sheila Vand as Lauren Yates and Reynaldo Gallegos as Gabriel Martin Lorea.
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The cast includes Creator/BenAffleck as Tom "Redfly" Davis, Creator/OscarIsaac as Santiago "Pope" Gomez, Creator/CharlieHunnam as William "Ironhead" Miller, Creator/GarrettHedlund as Ben "Benny" Miller, Creator/PedroPascal as Francisco "Catfish" Morales, Adria Arjona as Yovanna, Sheila Vand as Lauren Yates and Reynaldo Gallegos as Gabriel Martin Lorea.

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The cast includes Creator/BenAffleck as Tom "Redfly" Davis, Creator/OscarIsaac as Santiago "Pope" Gomez, Creator/BenAffleck as Tom "Redfly" Davis, Creator/CharlieHunnam as William "Ironhead" Miller, Creator/GarrettHedlund as Ben "Benny" Miller, Creator/PedroPascal as Francisco "Catfish" Morales, Adria Arjona as Yovanna, Sheila Vand as Lauren Yates and Reynaldo Gallegos as Gabriel Martin Lorea.
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* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Redly gets abruptly shot in the head, with no last word whatsoever.]]
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** The village boys avenging the death of their fellow villagers or family members.

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** The cocaine farming village boys avenging wanting to avenge the death of their fellow villagers or family members.

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