History YMMV / TheLastBoyScout

* CompleteMonster (Creator/ShaneBlack's original screenplay): [[TheDragon Milo]] is significantly nastier than he is in the final product, even managing to eclipse his boss [[BigBad Sheldon Marcone]]. A director of {{snuff film}}s on top of being a [[PsychoForHire psychotic hitman]] for Marcone, Milo routinely has young women tricked or kidnapped to be brutally murdered by his henchmen for the purpose of his films. Once Marcone orders the assassination of [[CorruptPolitician Senator Calvin Baynard]], Milo kidnaps the hero Joe Hallenbeck and his wife Sarah and threatens to use Sarah as the next star in his snuff films if Joe doesn't kill Baynard, with full intent of simply burning Joe to death and using him to soak up guilt as he and Marcone walk off free. Along the way, Milo massacres an innocent family simply because they inconvenience him and, after murdering Baynard and all of his men before being defeated and scarred by Joe, murders his way back to Joe and tries to furiously gun down him and his entire family in revenge.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Likely the reason the film underperformed. The two leads (Joe and Jimmy) are an abusive, cynical drunk and a drug-addicted, hedonistic has-been respectively who are genuinely unpleasant people who are (reluctantly) fighting to stop a CorruptPolitician from being assassinated. The only reason they're worth rooting for is because the villains are so much worse, and the rest of the cast are equally abhorrent. Add on a bleak and nihilistic tone and [[{{Gorn}} graphic violence]], and the film becomes genuinely hard to watch at times.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwqh9Dw0FPo "Friday Night's a Great Night for Football",]] the title theme by Bill Medley that's designed to sound like the opening music for an NFL broadcast, complete with the opening credits being presented in a manner straight out of one from the late '80s or early '90s.

* HarsherInHindsight: The BigBad's goal is to bribe enough senators to allow for legalized gambling in football. In May 2018, the US Supreme Court struck down a federal law that bars gambling on football, basketball, baseball and other sports in most states, giving states the go-ahead to legalize betting on sports.

* OneSceneWonder: Badja Djola as an AffablyEvil thug.

** One of the dancers at the strip club was played by Sara Suzanne Brown, who would later become famous to B-movie fans for appearing in various erotic "Skinemax" flicks during the first half of TheNineties.

* SignatureScene: Billy Cole shooting three opposing players while en route to the end zone, just before offing himself.

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Taylor Negron mostly stuck to comedic roles, so it's a shock to see him playing [[AxCrazy Milo]], and even more of a shock to pull it off brilliantly and terrifyingly.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Likely the reason the film underperformed. The violence is brutal, Joe and Jimmy are flawed and hard to like, and [[WorldOfJerkass everyone else isn't much better]].

** Jimmy crying over photos of Cory and ruefully blaming himself for her death.

* SoBleakItsBoring: Likely the reason the film underperformed. The violence is brutal, Joe and Jimmy are flawed and hard to like, and [[WorldOfJerkass everyone else isn't much better]].

* {{Tearjerker}}:

* VindicatedByHistory: At the time of its release, it received mixed reviews, and while it didn't flop, it wasn't a blockbuster either. Now, it's considered a quintessential Creator/BruceWillis action thriller on par with ''Film/DieHard''.

* {{Tearjerker}}: Jimmy's backstory, and his monologue about it to Joe.
--> '''Jimmy:''' Alex was my son. I used to be married. One Sunday away in Miami, my wife couldn't come because she was eight months pregnant, she was walking down La Brea boulevard. Out of nowhere a pickup truck jumped the curb,m. POW! She never knew what hit her. She died, but Alex lived in a incubator for seventeen minutes, just enough time for one dream. Then he died. I think about him all the time. I threw for three hundred yards that day while my wife and kid were dying, I played the game of my life. Life sucks.

--> '''Jimmy:''' Alex was my son. I used to be married. One Sunday away in Miami, my wife couldn't come because she was eight months pregnant, she was walking down La Brea boulevard, out of nowhere a pickup truck jumped the curb, POW! She never knew what hit her. She died, but Alex lived in a incubator for seventeen minutes, just enough time for one dream. Then he died. I think about him all the time. I threw for three hundred yards that day while my wife and kid were dying, I played the game of my life. Life sucks.

* NightmareFuel:
** Milo is utterly terrifying, because of just how downright psychotic he is.
--> '''Joe:''' Go fuck yourself.\\
'''Milo:''' Okay. Now, that's not very polite. ''(Pulls out a switchblade)'' It's very abusive-sounding. What would you do, Joseph, if somebody told you to go fuck yourself? Would you cut one of their eyes out?\\
'''Joe:''' No.\\
'''Milo:''' No? What would you do?
** [[spoiler:Milo]] getting torn apart into paste by a HelicopterBlender.
** A lot of the violence in the film is pretty horrifying, especially since it verges into flat-out {{Gorn}} at some points.
** The opening scene, where Billy Cole starts gunning down the opposing team and then turning the gun on himself.

* NightmareFuel: Milo is utterly terrifying, because of just how downright psychotic he is.

** And a ''very'' young Creator/KimCoates, nearly thirty years pre-''Series/SonsOfAnarchy'', gets punched to death by Bruce Willis.

--->'''Cory:''' If I were [[Film/{{Catwoman}} a cat]], I'd purrrrrr.

* CompleteMonster: [[TheDragon Milo]], in Creator/ShaneBlack's original screenplay, is significantly nastier than he is in the final product, even managing to eclipse his boss [[BigBad Sheldon Marcone]]. A director of {{snuff film}}s on top of being a [[PsychoForHire psychotic hitman]] for Marcone, Milo routinely has young women tricked or kidnapped to be brutally murdered by his henchmen for the purpose of his films. Once Marcone orders the assassination of [[CorruptPolitician Senator Calvin Baynard]], Milo kidnaps the hero Joe Hallenbeck and his wife Sarah and threatens to use Sarah as the next star in his snuff films if Joe doesn't kill Baynard, with full intent of simply [[ManOnFire burning Joe to death]] and using him to soak up guilt as he and Marcone walk off free. Along the way, Milo massacres an innocent family simply because they inconvenience him and, after murdering Baynard and all of his men before being defeated and scarred by Joe, murders his way back to Joe and tries to furiously gun down him and his entire family in revenge.

* ChaoticGood: Joe Hallenback.

* CultClassic