History Film / Blitz

* BatmanGambit: Brant pulls a good one on [[spoiler: Weiss]] at the end. After [[spoiler: Weiss is released from prison, Brant knows that Weiss will come after him next because of the [[KicktheSonOfABitch humiliation and persecution that Brant has put him through.]] Brant also knows that the best place for Weiss to do that would be right after Robert's funeral---and that Weiss still has the cop uniform that he stole in order to help in his crimes. So Brant leaves during the funeral, knowing that Weiss is watching and following him, before driving to the same parking garage where the evidence against Weiss was found. He then manages to momentarily shake off Weiss before pulling a bait-and-switch with Nash, who proceeds to the top of the garage, seemingly oblivious to Weiss' presence. Once Weiss corners Nash, Brant disarms him and beats him senseless before killing him with his own gun---or rather, the Blitz's gun, as Weiss was judged innocent. Brant manages to turn Weiss' desire for petty vengeance into the foolproof illusion that [[{{Irony}} Weiss is simply another one of the victims murdered by the very criminal identity that he created.]]]]

* AxCrazy: Weiss is a sadistically violent, sociopathic thug who's first introduced attacking several people in a pool hall over a petty slight. And upon being subdued by Brant, he decides to get revenge by murdering as many cops as he can get away with.

* AxCrazy: Weiss is a sadistically violent, sociopathic thug who's first introduced attacking several people in a pool hall over a petty slight. And upon being subdued by Brant, he decides to get revenge by murdering as many cops as he can get away with.]]

Detective Sergeant Tom Brant (Statham) is dispatched to take down a serial killer hell bent on killing off the police force one by one. "The Blitz" manages to slip through the grasp of Tom every time, and with the precious lives of his colleagues diminishing one by one, Tom is led to the question: if we can't protect our own, then what good are we?

%%* GoingColdturkey: [[spoiler:What Blunt and Nash do to Falls after she is retaking drugs in the following of the death of Metal]].

%%* RageAgainstTheLegalSystem: This turns out to be the Blitz's main motivation for his murder of policeman.

--> This, lads, is a hurley. Used in the Irish game of hurling - a cross between hockey and [[UnnecessaryRoughness murder]].

* GoingColdturkey: [[spoiler:What Blunt and Nash do to Falls after she is retaking drugs in the following of the death of Metal]].

* WrongSideOfTheTracks: South East London. Very much TruthInTelevision.

* ColdOpen: The car thieves

* PoliceBrutality: Claimed by the media at numerous points.
* PreAssKickingOneLiner:

* PunchClockHero: The Metropolitan Police officers.
* RageAgainstTheLegalSystem: This turns out to be the Blitz's main motivation for his murder of policeman.
* RecoveredAddict: Falls, at least at first [[spoiler:before the death of Metal]].

* TheyLookJustLikeEveryoneElse: Barry Weiss.

* WrongSideOfTheTracks [=/=] TheCityNarrows: South East London. Very much TruthInTelevision.

* HeroicSacrifice: [(spoiler:Metal dies while protecting Falls from Blitz]].

* GoilgColdturkey: [[spoiler:What Blunt and Nash do to Falls after she is retaking drugs in the following of the death of Metal]].

* MaliciousSlander: Happens to Brant. The press calls the car thieves "Innocent Youth".

* LittleNo: PC Falls gives on when [[spoiler:Weiss kills Metal]].

* BatterUp: A hurley, but still fits.
** Nash once beat a paedophile [[GroinAttack in the groin]] with a bat, leaving him castrated, because there was not enough evidence for a conviction.

* AssholeVictim: The three car thieves in the opening. Barry Weiss.
* {{Badass}}: Brant.