The Hitman's Bodyguard / YMMV

Awesome Music:
- "Nobody Gets Out Alive", which Kincaid improvises to annoy Bryce during one of the road trip scenes, and which Samuel L. Jackson sings with a gospel choir over the end credits.
- "Hello" by Lionel Richie, which is Darius and Sonia's song.
- "I Want to Know What Love Is" by Foreigner, which is Michael and Amelia's song.
- "Little Queenie" by Chuck Berry, when Michael fights Ivan in the hardware store with all the different things and then eventually kills him too.
- "Dancing in the Moonlight" by King Harvest, which is played at the end of the movie when Darius and Sonia reunite in the bar they met.
Captain Obvious Reveal: Kincaid killed Kurosawa, ruining Bryce's career. Also, Foucher turns out to be the mole. Who'd have thought.
Catharsis Factor: Dukhovich getting kicked off the Hague rooftop by Darius is nothing short but crowd-pleasing due to how much of a monster Dukhovich was.
Complete Monster: Vladislav Dukhovich is the former dictator of Belarus on trial for war crimes. He's introduced ransacking the home of a professor who spoke out against him, and shoots his family in front of him to "educate" him. Any witnesses against him during his trial, he has assassinated before they can testify. When Darius Kincaid, the titular hitman, finally brings concrete evidence to the trial, it's in the form of Dukhovich overseeing the massacre of a village that resisted him and having their bodies dumped in a mass grave. Caught at last, Dukhovich stages an explosion to cover his escape from the court, but not before he proudly proclaims to everyone assembled that he refuses to recognize their authority to punish him for the crimes he has committed, and that he is the rightful ruler of Belarus and they cannot take that from him. A remorseless, ruthless, mass-murdering dictator who will do anything to keep control over his country and violently silences any dissent, Dukhovich is the very definition of a tyrant.
Critic-Proof: Met with mixed to negative critical reception, the film did well at the box office in what became one of the worst financial years ever for cinematic releases.
Ethnic Scrappy: Salma Hayek's character does not work very much in 2017, even if all of the ethnic stereotypes about Hispanics were invoked for the purposes of parody.
Ho Yay: The entirety of the film's marketing plays off how obviously in love the two leads are.
Just Here for Godzilla: A lot of people are interested just because it's Deadpool and Nick Fury's actors sharing a movie with the roles reversed, which is comedy gold.
Magnificent Bastard: Darius Kincaid committed his first murder to avenge his father and spent the next several decades building his reputation as one of the world's best assassins, once killing a target while in place for another and pulling the other off. After being incarcerated, Darius agrees to testify against deposed Belarusian President Vladislav Dukhovich and agrees to a longer prison sentence in exchange for his wife Sonia going free. Battering and dodging his way through teams of mercenaries on the way to the courthouse alongside professional bodyguard Michael Bryce, Darius, who prides himself on never hurting innocent people, reveals that Dukhovich ordered the slaughter of an innocent village, providing key evidence for a guilty verdict. When Dukhovich bombs the courthouse in an attempt to escape, Darius personally sabotages his escape plan and kills him for shooting Bryce. With Sonia going free, Darius later breaks himself out of prison and reunites with her for their anniversary.
Memetic Mutation: You know that video of a black Porsche Cayenne bumping a Smart Fortwo into a canal in Amsterdam? That was the filming of this movie.
Moral Event Horizon: Dukhovich takes a flying leap over the MEH in the first five minutes when he murders a man's wife and child for daring to speak out against him. There is no sympathy wasted on him when he takes a flying leap-off of a rooftop in the end, courtesy of Kincaid.
Nightmare Fuel:
- Dukhovich is not used as a source of humor in a film full of absurd comedy and slapstick. The scene where he personally executes a dissident’s family is genuinely chilling. Further, the scene where he orders a suicide bomber to set off a large truck bomb on a crowded street is treated with full seriousness, complete with hospital staff going into Mass Casualty mode upon seeing the carnage on the TV.
- The scene where Kincaid is being transported through a cramped city is a lampshaded example of Paranoia Fuel, especially so soon after a previous scene where another character was similarly escorted through a city only to be abruptly shot in the head moments before he had made it to safety.
- Bryce's torture at the hands of Dukhovich's mooks, made worse that he really didn't know what they wanted and tried telling them this before they started.
Spiritual Adaptation: Nobody will blame you if you look at this movie as Elektra Natchios hiring Deadpool to bodyguard Nick Fury. Especially after Disney purchased 20th Century Fox (and also happened to star Ajak).
Squick: Bryce is implied to be living out of his car thanks to his career tanking, and is seen peeing in a juice bottle, capping it, and tossing it aside to dispose of later. Numerous characters comment on how disgusting his car is, and there's a lingering stench despite the fact he regularly takes it in to be professionally cleaned. At one point Bryce implies the smell is primarily from an incident a couple weeks ago when a drug mule client accidentally defecated several pounds of heroin on the backseat.
What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: A Belorussian nationalist dictator oppressing the educated pro-Western population? A new president poisoned with dioxin? Hague trial? Clearly some real events were used to create the story.
The Woobie: The unnamed man who was forced to watch Dukhovich murder his family in front of him. Fortunately, his wife and child are ultimately avenged when he bears witness to Dukhovich's death.

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