| 1 | * AmericansHateTingle: The film was panned by American critics but got better reviews over in Britain. |
| 2 | * JerkassWoobie: The skinheads. Pretty much every scene they're in shows them taking damage due to their own recklessness and stupidity. Of course, they're Nazis, so you don't really feel bad for them. |
| 3 | * LoveToHate: Kane who's so crooked and yet so {{Adorkable}} you almost want to see him succeed. Being played by Creator/SeanPertwee helps too. |
| 4 | * MagnificentBastard: [[ClandestineChemist Elmo McElroy]] is a former pharmacology graduate turned drug chemist, who decides to betray his boss the Lizard, and sell his new drug [[FantasticDrug POS 51]] to a gangster in Liverpool himself in order to get out of the drug business. [=McElroy=] rigs a machine in his lab so that it will blow up when the Lizard turns up his thermostat, but not before letting his lab mice go. When his buyer is killed by Dawn "Dakota" Parker, [=McElroy=] teams up with Felix [=DeSouza=] to find a new buyer and tricks a group of skinheads into allowing them to use their labs to brew POS 51. Convincing Dawn to betray the Lizard, [=McElroy=] engineers a plan that would kill the Lizard and put the corrupt Virgil Kane behind bars at the same time. Having Dawn lead the Lizard into a trap, [=McElroy=] tricks the Lizard into digesting an explosive drug that would go off the exact moment Kane comes in to arrest the group, before revealing that POS 51 is just a placebo and escaping once his plan goes off without a hitch. A master chemist and skilled salesman, [=McElroy=] ends the film finally a free man. |
| 5 | * RetroactiveRecognition: |
| 6 | ** Kane is played by Creator/SeanPertwee, who's now more fondly remembered as [[Film/DogSoldiers Sgt Wells]]. Or else [[{{Series/Gotham}} Alfred the Butler]]. |
| 7 | ** Dawn is likewise more recognisable as [=McKenzie=] Hale from ''Series/TheNewsroom''. |
| 8 | * WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical: The film never mentions it again after the introduction, but Elmo would have spent his life as a legitimate chemist (with perhaps a small sideline growing pot) if not his nascent career being ruined by a ''single'' arrest for marijuana possession. Instead, he became a comedic version of [[Series/BreakingBad Walter White]]. |
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