History YMMV / Ricochet

* HamAndCheese: The movie is pretty much a cheesy ExploitationFilm with a budget, and Creator/DenzelWashington and Creator/JohnLithgow both lean into that as hard as they can, giving the kind of ham-tastic performance several that major religions might forbid.

* HamAndCheese: The movie is pretty much a cheesy ExploitationFilm with a budget, and Creator/DenzelWashington and CreatorJohnLithgow both lean into that as hard as they can, giving the kind of ham-tastic performance several that major religions might forbid.

* WhatAnIdiot: Kim is established as not the brightest when he unlocks his gang's door with his own key so Blake can kill them. Blake promptly closes it, says "Why don't you just shout that it's an inside job?", and breaks in.

* FoeYay: Blake's obsession with Styles, evident from some of his lines:
-->"Last time I held a gun in this hand, a young man took off all of his clothes for me!"

* CompleteMonster: Earl Talbot Blake is a cruel [[ProfessionalKiller hitman]] who is seen murdering a drug dealer for his money before he is pursued by [[TheHero a cop named Nick Styles]]. After taking a woman hostage, Blake is arrested by Styles and rots for years in jail while burning with hatred for his captor. Blake escapes by causing a massacre of a parole hearing and murders a man to serve as a stand-in for Blake's corpse. Blake proceeds to hound Styles, injects him full of drugs and films him being raped by a prostitute to destroy Styles' career, marriage and life. Blake later kills Styles's partner and gleefully says he wants to destroy everything Styles has. When his own loyal [[TheDragon right-hand man]] finally [[EvenEvilHasStandards has enough]], Blake murders him, too.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: After being raped by a prostitute hired by Blake, heroic cop-turned-attorney Styles was dumped in the area filled with homeless people and made to appear to look like one of them when discovered by a beat cop. Then in May 2020, Styles' portrayer Creator/DenzelWashington is [[https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/denzel-washington-video-helping-homeless-man-police-encounter-004337408.html proclaimed a real-life hero after a video shows him helping a homeless man in a police encounter]].

* RetroactiveRecognition: If the man himself is to be belived, [[Film/CoolCatSavesTheKids Derek Savage]][[note]]Real name possibly Darryl R Evans[[/note]] is visible on-screen as an extra in a few scenes.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: After being raped by a prostitute hired by Blake, heroic cop-turned-attorney Styles was dumped in the area filled with homeless people and made to appear to look like one of them when discovered by a beat cop. Then in May 2020, Styles' portrayer Creator/DenzelWashington is [[https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/denzel-washington-video-helping-homeless-man-police-encounter-004337408.html proclaimed a real-life hero after a video shows him helping a homeless man in police encounter]].

* MagnificentBastard: Earl Talbot Blake, whose elaborate revenge plan to turn Nick Styles into a HeroWithBadPublicity rather then just kill him actually works and Blake had a NearVillainVictory, until...
** Styles had a plan himself at the climax when he pretends to admit to taking responsibilities of what Blake frames him for before faking his suicide to drive Blake to a VillainousBreakdown and then confront him at the Watts Towers where Nick, backed by his friend [[AntiHero Odessa and his crew of street criminals]], fights Blake on the Towers before causing him to be ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.

* CompleteMonster: Earl Talbot Blake is a cruel [[ProfessionalKiller hitman]] who is seen murdering a drug dealer for his money before he is pursued by [[TheHero a cop named Nick Styles]]. After taking a woman hostage, Blake is arrested by Styles and rots for years in jail while burning with hatred for his captor. Blake escapes by causing a massacre of a parole hearing and murders a man to serve as a stand-in for Blake's corpse. Blake proceeds to hound Styles, injects him full of drugs and films him being raped by a prostitute to destroy Styles' career, marriage and life. Blake later kills Styles's partner and gleefully expresses he wants to destroy everything Styles has. When his own loyal [[TheDragon right-hand man]] finally [[EvenEvilHasStandards has enough]], Blake murders him, too.

-->"Last time I held a gun in this hand, young man took off all of his his clothes for me!"

* MagnificentBastard: Earl Talbot Blake, whose elaborate revenge plan to turn Nick Styles into a HeroWithBadPublicity rather then just kill him had actually works and Blake had a NearVillainVictory, until...
** Styles himself had a plan himself at the climax when he pretends to admit to taking responsibilities of what Blake frames him for before faking his suicide to drive Blake to a VillainousBreakdown and then confront him at the Watts Towers where Nick with backed by his friend [[AntiHero Odessa and his crew of street criminals]], fights Blake to the death before causing him to be ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.

** Styles himself had a plan himself at the climax when he pretends to admit to taking responsibilities of what Blake frames him for before faking his suicide to drive Blake to a VillainousBreakdown and then confront him at the Watts Towers where Nick with backed by his friend [[AntiHero Odessa and his crew of street criminals]], fights Blake to the death before causing him to be ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice.

* MagnificentBastard: Earl Talbot Blake, whose elaborate revenge plan to turn Nick Styles into a HeroWithBadPublicity rather then just kill himhad actually works and Blake had a NearVillainVictory, until...

* HilariousInHindsight: It's only fitting that prior to playing [[Film/MalcolmX Malcolm X]], Denzel (or rather, Nick Styles) would see a MalcolmXerox on TV, that is, the talk show guest who was going on about a conspiracy to bring Nick Styles down.