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* FakeNationality: Englishman Creator/JudeLaw plays the American hero who's NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent, while American Creator/AngelinaJolie plays "Franky". Jolie's accent was mocked by some critics, though she's merely riffing on the stiff-upper-lip jargon of British war propaganda.

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* FakeNationality: Englishman Creator/JudeLaw plays the American hero who's NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent, while American Creator/AngelinaJolie plays British "Franky". Jolie's accent was mocked by some critics, though she's merely riffing on the stiff-upper-lip jargon of British war propaganda.



* StillbornFranchise: The film was going to spawn a franchise but since it became a BoxOfficeBomb, it never did. And even despite bombing, there was still interest to turn it into an anime series, that also never happend.

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* StillbornFranchise: The film was going to spawn a franchise but since it became a BoxOfficeBomb, it never did. And even despite bombing, there was still interest to turn in turning it into an anime series, series; that also never happend.happened.
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* AcclaimedFlop: The movie received an creditable 72% in Website/RottenTomatoes, but did not make up its budget.

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* AcclaimedFlop: The movie received an a creditable 72% in on Website/RottenTomatoes, but did not make up its budget.
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* DoingItForTheArt: The film's creator spent years developing software to achieve a film with ''this specific look,'' and then pitched a film around it.
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* PosthumousCredit: [[spoiler:Creator/LaurenceOlivier plays Totenkopf via archive footage. He died in 1989.]]
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* ActorAllusion: Creator/JudeLaw and Creator/GwynethPaltrow had previously played a couple in''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley''.

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* ActorAllusion: Creator/JudeLaw and Creator/GwynethPaltrow had previously played a couple in''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley''.in ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley''.
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* BoxOfficeBomb: Budget, $70 million. Box office, $57,958,696. The film destroyed brothers Kerry (director and writer) and Kevin (production designer) Conran's careers — neither have done anything of note since.

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* CreatorBacklash: Kerry Conran was so devastated by the failure of the film that he refuses to discuss the project to this day.

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* CreatorBacklash: Kerry Conran was so devastated by the failure of the film that he refuses refused to discuss the project to this day. for several years.



* RealLifeRelative: Jude Law's father, Peter, portrays Dr. Kessler.



** Conran brothers asked for a budget of 3 million dollars and once stars got attached to the project, it was still a low figure of 20 million. With either of those budgets, the box office of 58 million would be considered successful. Kevin Conran himself is unable to answer [[UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting where the studio accounting added those extra 50 millions to his production]], because he never saw any of it.

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** The Conran brothers asked for a budget of 3 million dollars and once stars got attached to the project, it was still a low figure of 20 million. With either of those budgets, the box office of 58 million would be considered successful. Kevin Conran himself is unable to answer [[UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting where the studio accounting added those extra 50 millions to his production]], because he never saw any of it.
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* CreatorBacklash: Kerry Conran was so devastated by the failure of the film that he refuses to discuss the project to this day.
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%%* ActorAllusion: Creator/JudeLaw and Creator/GwynethPaltrow had previously played a couple in''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley''.

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%%* * ActorAllusion: Creator/JudeLaw and Creator/GwynethPaltrow had previously played a couple in''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley''.



** Conran brothers asked for a budget of 3 million dollars and once stars got attatched to the project, it was still a low figure of 20 million. With either of those budgets, the box office of 58 million would be considered successful. Kevin Conran himself is unable to answer [[UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting where the studio accounting added those extra 50 millions to his production]], because he never saw any of it.

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** Conran brothers asked for a budget of 3 million dollars and once stars got attatched attached to the project, it was still a low figure of 20 million. With either of those budgets, the box office of 58 million would be considered successful. Kevin Conran himself is unable to answer [[UsefulNotes/HollywoodAccounting where the studio accounting added those extra 50 millions to his production]], because he never saw any of it.
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* AcclaimedFlop: The movie received an astonishing 72% in Website/RottenTomatoes, but did not make up its budget.
%%* ActorAllusion: Creator/JudeLaw and Creator/GwynethPaltrow of ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley''.

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* AcclaimedFlop: The movie received an astonishing creditable 72% in Website/RottenTomatoes, but did not make up its budget.
%%* ActorAllusion: Creator/JudeLaw and Creator/GwynethPaltrow of ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley''.had previously played a couple in''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley''.
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* StarDerailingRole: While not as spectacular as usual examples, the failure of ''Sky Captain'' got Creator/JudeLaw relegated to playing supporting characters, rather than leads. It also killed all the momentum his career had at the beginning of UsefulNotes/The2000s.

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* StarDerailingRole: While not as spectacular as usual examples, the failure of ''Sky Captain'' got Creator/JudeLaw relegated to playing supporting characters, rather than leads. It also killed all the momentum his career had at the beginning of UsefulNotes/The2000s.TurnOfTheMillennium.
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* StarDerailingRole: While not as spectacular as usual examples, the failure of ''Sky Captain'' got Creator/JudeLaw relegated to playing supporting characters, rather than leads. It also killed all the momentum his career had at UsefulNotes/TurnOfTheMillennium.

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* StarDerailingRole: While not as spectacular as usual examples, the failure of ''Sky Captain'' got Creator/JudeLaw relegated to playing supporting characters, rather than leads. It also killed all the momentum his career had at UsefulNotes/TurnOfTheMillennium.the beginning of UsefulNotes/The2000s.
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* StarDerailingRole: While not as spectacular as usual examples, the failure of ''Sky Captain'' got Creator/JudeLaw relegated to playing supporting characters, rather than leads. It also killed all the momentum his career had at the TurnOfTheMillenium.

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* StarDerailingRole: While not as spectacular as usual examples, the failure of ''Sky Captain'' got Creator/JudeLaw relegated to playing supporting characters, rather than leads. It also killed all the momentum his career had at the TurnOfTheMillenium.UsefulNotes/TurnOfTheMillennium.

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