History Film / Everly

* TokenMinority: Zelda ''really'' stands out in the crowd as the only black person.

* RuleOfCool: Sai-wielding hooker with an attitude, TortureTechnician assisted by four people in ''[[UpToEleven kabuki costumes]]'', SWAT-disguised mooks on zip lines, Yakuzas, katana duel... you get the picture.

* AdultFear: The film invokes it in few really unpleasant ways. Just imagine:
** A hit-squad is heading to your family house, ready to kill your daughter and mother and all you can do is listen to the sounds of the assault via phone.
** Not to mention constant fear that your own daughter, raised by her grandmother, will never recognise you as mother.
** A mob boss casually talking about selling your child into sex slavery, while having all means to do that.

* SpiritualAdaptation: Of Neil Marshall's and Bharat Nalluri's ''Killing Time'', where a single hitwoman is defending herself in a hotel room from a few waves of thugs trying to take her down.

* {{Sadist}}: The TortureTechnician on Taiko's orders is appropriately named like this. He chillingly loves to torture his victims with different kind of acids he apprently always brings in his suitcase. Taiko himself is this too (if not moreso) as he deliberately put Everly through the whole mess for his own entertainment, [[spoiler: had her mother killed in order to break her even more]] and finally he personally tried to kill her after all his henchmen died.

* HemoErotic: After torturing Everly with a finger put in her gunshot wound, Taiko sugestively licks that finger.

* InstantDeathBullet: Averted. Countless people, including [[spoiler: Everly herself]] get shot in non-fatal ways and then either are patched up, start dying for hours or just shrug the wound and continue their task, helped with adrenaline rush.

** The film takes into notion all the corpses that start to pile all over the appartment and the damage done to the set.

* LawOfInverseRecoil: PlayedWith. When preparing for Zelda's attack, Everly grabs an [=MP5=]. When she starts firing it, the recoil throws her aim up to the roof. On the other hand she later [[spoiler: manages to empty a machine gun into desired direction without much problem]].
* MadeOfIron: Everly gets a through-and-through bullet wound to her side in the first five minutes of the movie and treats it like a minor inconvenience thereafter. [[spoiler: However, she keeps on losing the blood and it almost kills her by the end of the film.]]
** Both [[spoiler: the Sadist and Taiko]] take astonishing amount of punishment like it was nothing.

* MsFanservice: Everly and some of the hookers.
* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Invoked. [[spoiler:Everly's mother was shot dead in the heart, by Taiko's sniper, deliberately trying to put Everly [[HeroicBSOD on the edge]], it didn't work.]]
* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailer depicts the movie as a much more frenetic, almost campy film. The attacks from the other women of the building, which actually occupy less than ten minutes of the film, are shown as a much larger part of the story with implications that they are sexy, campily dressed hitwomen instead of abused victims out of their depth and desperate for a way out their lives.
* NoHonorAmongThieves: The moment a bounty is set on Everly's head, every hooker in the apartment block want to kill her ''and'' the other hookers to prevent them from collecting the bounty. The result is anything but pretty.
* NotQuiteDead: Few examples:

* OnlyAFleshWound: PlayedWith. Everly get shot in the kidney [[spoiler: and later in her shoulder with apparently no ill impact on her performance and she's even hit directly in her punctured side a few times without sustaining disabling pain or any serious blood loss. ''But'' when Taiko puts his finger into one of the wounds, she screams at the top of her lungs and winces in pain like mad. She also suffers trendemous, but relatively slow blood loss during the film and near-death experience by the end]].

* ForTheEvulz: Taiko could have killed Everly right now and ending all of this if he wanted to. He instead decides to torture her both physically and psychologically simply for his own sadistic pleasure before trying to kill her himself. He also admits that he has enjoyed "the show" all the time by watching it by a rear window.

* MissingTrailerScene: The trailer has Everly say "Dad wanted a boy" [[IHaveBrothers to explain her competency with firearms]]. In the film she never says anything to explain her weapon proficiency, and that specific line is not present.

* BulletsDoNotWorkThatWay: Averted; ballistics are shown to be (relatively) accurate throughout the movie. Numerous people in neighboring rooms are killed by wild shots that go through the walls of the apartment and the furniture and fixtures are torn to shreds throughout the siege.