* CompleteMonster: [[TheHeavy Commandante Veracruz]] is a crooked military officer seeking to secure a drug trading lane for his employer, Governor Perez. In his repeated attempts to massacre the farmers currently living on the land that the trading lane crosses through, Veracruz [[YouKilledMyFather murdered the father of Beatriz]] and has tried to kill the teenage girl as well. Veracruz plots to slaughter a hospital clinic of its staff and patients and [[FalseFlagOperation blame it on the farmers]], framing them as "terrorists" so Veracruz can get military aid to wipe the farmers out entirely. When Sam Axe repeatedly interferes, Veracruz [[BadBoss murders several of his own henchmen out of annoyance]], then brutally beats Sam and tries to [[ForcedToWatch force him to watch]] as the farmers, hospital patients, and multiple other innocents are gunned down.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: As Sam is being taken away by the [=MPs=], the RagtagBunchOfMisfits who he managed to organize into a half-way decent fighting force say "Senor Axe" and salute him.
* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/PedroPascal, who played Veracruz, got a lot easier to recognize and more noticeable after playing [[Series/GameOfThrones Oberyn Martell]] 3 years after this movie came out. Not to mention [[Characters/StarWarsTheMandalorianCharacterSheet Din Djarin]] and [[Series/TheLastOfUs2023 Joel Miller]] a few years after that.
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