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1	* CompleteMonster: Timothy is a sociopathic psychological operations agent who's the former lover, and target, of the amnesiac heroine. Early on, we see Timothy torturing a man who, knowing his reputation, just begs for a quick death. Timothy doesn't grant it. When pursuing his ex, Charlie, she uncovers his plan with his KnightTemplar boss: to stage a terrorist attack and kill over four thousand Americans to [[FalseFlagOperation "blame the Muslims"]] and get funding. While Leland [[WellIntentionedExtremist is doing what he sees as right for the country in the end]], Timothy is in for the [[{{Greed}} money]] and the [[ForTheEvulz fun]]. When he has Charlie hostage with her 8-year-old daughter, he plans to throw them in a meat locker to freeze to death. Charlie informs him the girl, Caitlin, is Timothy's child. He confirms this by seeing she has his eyes--and then angrily locks her in the meat locker to die anyways.
2	* CultClassic: Although the film bombed at the box office, it does have a fanbase who consider it to be a very memorable action film with funny, clever dialogue.
3	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Mr. Waldman, played by Creator/BrianCox. He has about twenty minutes of screentime and gets the best lines in the movie.
4	* GeniusBonus: In one scene the President of the United States mentions that Chapter's missing agent (Charly) was trained in "counter-assassination". This may seem odd, since Charly is a straight-up assassin. However, in 1976 UsefulNotes/GeraldFord authorized an executive order that forbade U.S. intelligence agencies from taking part in assassinations. If Perkins told the President that Charly was an assassin he'd be admitting to breaking the law. But by telling the President that Charly was a "counter-assassination specialist" he would avoid implicating himself.
5	* HarsherInHindsight:
6	** The villains' plan eerily echoes any number of conspiracy theories about [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror the 9/11 attacks]] being a FalseFlagOperation, from the idea of framing radical Islamic terrorists for it to a specific reference to a ''previous'' attempt to blow up the World Trade Center.
7	-->'''Leland:''' 1993. World Trade Center bombing, remember? During the trial, one of the bombers claimed the CIA had advanced knowledge. The diplomat who issued the terrorists' visas was CIA. It's not unthinkable that they paved the way for the bombing, purely to justify a budget increase. \
8	'''Mitch:''' You're telling me that you're going to fake some terrorist thing, just to scare some money out of Congress?\
9	'''Leland:''' Well, unfortunately, Mr. Hennessey, I have no idea how to fake killing four thousand people, so we're just going to have to do it for real. Blame it on the Muslims, naturally. Then I get my funding.
10	** The film employs GoodAdulteryBadAdultery to justify Samantha cheating on her fiance in her Charly persona. It's a little sad to watch knowing the movie was directed by Geena Davis' husband Renny Harlin, and the failure at the Box Office was what destroyed their marriage.
11	* HamAndCheese: Creator/CraigBierko is clearly having a great time making Timothy so cartoonishly evil. That being said, he does get serious when he wants to provide NightmareFuel ("I'll blind your kid and shoot out both her kneecaps").
12	* HilariousInHindsight:
13	** At the Christmas party, Sam tells the boy Raymond "they'll never find the body" if she catches him smoking again (she's joking). It's used for a BrickJoke later when Charly finds Raymond smoking. The line does become this once it's revealed she used to be an assassin - and a heavy smoker at that.
14	** Creator/BrianCox plays the former boss of a now-amnesiac government-trained professional killer, something he would [[Film/TheBourneIdentity repeat]] [[Film/X2XMenUnited twice]].
15	** Creator/GeenaDavis turns down an opportunity to work with the government, speaking to the president personally. She'd later star in ''Series/CommanderInChief'' - about a woman who becomes president.
16	** If you watch ''Film/TheNegotiator'' right after this, you'll see Creator/DavidMorse (Daedalus) playing an antagonistic role to Creator/SamuelLJackson once again. This time his character has an inexplicable hatred of Samuel L's, making it looks like Daedalus survived and is getting revenge on Mitch.
17	** For that matter, this isn't the last time Jackson would play a character teamed up with an amnesiac, powerful woman trying to figure out her past: ''Film/{{Captain Marvel\|2019}}'' is even set in TheNineties!
18	* HollywoodPudgy: Charly wails about how much weight she gained as Samantha, particularly in the ass. In the scene itself she's switched to skintight clothes, showing off that she's in great shape. Possibly just her being overly hard on her appearance. Waldman almost comments on her weight, but given that he's frustrated with Charly's re-emergence, he could also exaggerating.
19	* MoralEventHorizon: Timothy was always a nasty piece of work but it's only after he decides [[spoiler: to let Caitilin to feeze to death along with Charly even after realizing she's his own daughter]] that we have the confirm of what a unrepentant and psychopathic monster he really is.
20	* {{Narm}}:
21	** Charly telling Timothy to look into Caitlin's eyes to confirm that he's actually her father. When Timothy does, he's momentarily shocked and stunned. However he has completely different eyes from the girl (they're not even the same color), and it's blatantly obvious.
22	** In the flashback, Timothy referring to Charly as "the Energizer Bunny". Doubly so with hindsight that the Energizer Bunny didn't actually exist when he's supposed to have said that line.
23	* NarmCharm: Some of the film's more over-the-top sequences are clearly meant to be so ridiculous they're awesome. For example Charly outrunning the car on ice skates. Also the scene where Mitch is dumped out of the car, he remains on the road, lights a cigarette and Charly comes back to pick him up.
24	* NightmareFuel: Besides whenever Charly regains her memories, the sudden sight of Waldman's dead and drowned body is uncanny at best, creepy at worst.
25	* ParanoiaFuel: The scene where someone is shot through the eye and killed while looking through a peephole can invoke this for more paranoid people since such a thing could technically happen in real life. It might make them more cautious to look through peepholes.
26	* VindicatedByHistory: A BoxOfficeBomb that was mostly ignored on its initial release, its fans have grown since then - as well as appreciation for the fact that it was a female-led action movie that didn't fall into the GirlShowGhetto. A sequel was even talked about in 2007, though it never materialised.

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