History Film / AgentForHARM

* GutteralGrowling

* BittersweetEnding: Very heavy on the ''bitter''. Adam manages to stop the villain's plan to dust American crops with the poisonous spores, but that's about all that goes right. Adam fails to find an antidote to the spore, he fails to protect Jan Stefanik, and he fails to notice that Eva is TheMole until after she'd already killed two people. He did manage to save potentially millions of lives, but it's hard to think about that when you've just watched the pretty girl get arrested and the likeable old scientist get melted into slime.

* BittersweetEnding: Adam manages to prevent the villain from dusting American crops with the poisonous spores, thereby saving millions of lives, but that's about all that goes right. He fails to find an antidote to the spore and fails to protect Stefanik, the only scientist in the world who is even close to developing an antidote. He also fails to notice that Ava is TheMole, despite her being [[FailedASpotCheck really bad at it]]. He doesn't even manage to take the villain down properly; the critically wounded Stefanik is the one who kills the villain, getting himself dusted with spores in the process.

* DownerEnding: The Doctor is killed by the spore despite claiming he gave himself the antidote, and Adam makes out with Ava while arresting her of a capital crime. It's hard to feel anything happy at the end, not even a BittersweetEnding.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Adam Chance gets to cop a feel.

* GretzkyHasTheBall: The "judo range".

* AbnormalAmmo: The spore guns in the movie, and spores they shoot.

* AbnormalAmmo: The spore guns in the movie. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin They shoot spores.]]

* ShootTheShaggyDog: Adam fails at most of his mission. He does prevent Malko's mass-poisoning plan from coming to fruition, but he never finds an antidote for the poisonous spores, nor does he manage to save the life of the only person on Earth who was close to finding the antidote.

* ColdOpen: The film opens on Stefanik's escape from Southern California--err, behind the Iron Curtain.

** Chance attacks the {{Mook}} just as he's leaving the BigBad's hideout. If the guy didn't keep driving the other {{Mooks}} would know something was wrong.

-->'''Chance:''' You think you can't get hurt because this is America? [[{{Eagleland}} "Apple Pie",]] [[GetALoadOfThatSquare and all that jazz?]] Well, ''my'' job is to make sure that pie stays on the table - and nobody asks how I do it!

* SacrificialLamb [[HeroOfAnotherStory Of Another Story]]: Adam's first meeting with DaChief is suddenly interrupted by a distress call from another agent, who is swiftly killed. Adam's ready to go, but his boss already has him assigned to the spore case; he tells his secretary to assign another agent to clean up after the dead one.

* WhatTheHellHero: When Adam rescues the bikini-wearing Ava from Malko's henchmen he can be seen to (''possibly'' accidentally) cop a feel.

* DownerEnding: Adam fails to protect Stefanik, fails to notice Ava's TheMole [[FailedASpotCheck despite her being really bad at it]], fails to find an antidote to the spore, and fails to even take the villain down properly (the critically wounded Stefanik does all the work). He does manage to prevent the villain from dusting American crops with poisonous spores, so that's good. Still, that's about it.

* [[TuxedoAndMartini Cardigan And Girdle]]

* AccidentalNaming: A meta-example. The poster for the film -- which you can see at the top of this page -- misspells lead actor Peter Mark Richman's name as "Mark Richmond."

* FootFocus: In one scene where Ava is changing clothes, there is a closeup of her feet slipping out of her sandals followed by her lifting her bare sole into the center of the camera frame in order to put on stockings.

-->'''Mike:''' Okay, I'm just going to need an hour to figure out what you just said...

* DownerEnding: Adam fails to protect Stefanik, fails to notice Ava's TheMole [[FailedASpotCheck despite her being really bad at it]], fails to find an antidote to the spore, and fails to even take the villain down properly (the critically wounded Stefanik does all the work). He only manages to succeed at stopping the rather low key crop dusting operation.
* FailedASpotCheck: Since Ava was stupid enough to register for the Vienna Archery Competition using her ''real'' name, Adam easily caught her...after it was too late to actually do much except arrest her after she'd essentially done everything she set out to do short of escaping. So both of these morons get a round of applause for their ineptitude at their jobs.

* {{Metaphorgotten}}: Adam's extended "apple pie" metaphor is a little... opaque. And probably not nearly as cool-sounding as he thinks.
-->'''Crow T Robot:''' Okay, I'm just going to need an hour to figure out what you just said...

* ShootTheShaggyDog: Adam essentially fails entirely at his mission, only preventing the worst of Malko's plans from coming to fruition.

* MyNameIsNotDurwood: A meta-example. The poster for the film -- which you can see at the top of this page -- misspells lead actor Peter Mark Richman's name as "Mark Richmond."

After Stefanik defects from behind the IronCurtain to the United States, his assistant is killed at his makeshift lab outside San Diego. The eponymous H.A.R.M. sends one of its agents, Adam Chance, to help protect the scientist. Unfortunately, there's various and sundry baddies led by the evil Malko, whom would love nothing more than to turn Stefanik into guacamole.