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''Flashpoint'' is a 1984 American thriller directed by William Tannen, starring Creator/KrisKristofferson, Creator/TreatWilliams, Creator/RipTorn, Tess Harper, Creator/MiguelFerrer, and Creator/KurtwoodSmith and [[FilmOfTheBook based on the novel of the same name]] by George [=LaFountaine=]. The score was composed and performed by Music/TangerineDream. It was the first theatrical release produced by Creator/{{HBO}}.
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''Flashpoint'' is a 1984 American thriller directed by William Tannen, starring Creator/KrisKristofferson, Creator/TreatWilliams, Creator/RipTorn, Tess Harper, Creator/TessHarper, Creator/MiguelFerrer, and Creator/KurtwoodSmith and [[FilmOfTheBook based on the novel of the same name]] by George [=LaFountaine=]. The score was composed and performed by Music/TangerineDream. It was the first theatrical release produced by Creator/{{HBO}}.
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* KickedUpstairs: After Ernie is nearly killed trying to arrest a drug smuggler, he and Logan are shocked to learn that Carson has taken over as head of their station following the sudden promotion of the previous supervisor.
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* KickedUpstairs: After Ernie is nearly killed trying to arrest a drug smuggler, he and Logan are shocked to learn that Carson has taken over as head of their station following the sudden promotion of the previous supervisor.
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Sheriff Wells was in on the conspiracy, but covered up the disappearance of the real assassin and hoped no one would find the car wreckage with all the evidence and payoff money. When Ernie and Bobby found it, he knew the other conspirators would come back to kill everyone involved in the find. He explains it all to Bobby after the big shootout, promises to stay behind to stop any more federals chasing him, and gives Bobby the chance to flee to Mexico.]]
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* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Sheriff Wells was in on the conspiracy, but covered up the disappearance of the real assassin and hoped no one would find the car wreckage with all the evidence and payoff money. When Ernie and Bobby found it, he knew the other conspirators would come back to kill everyone involved in the find. He explains it all to Bobby after the big shootout, promises to stay behind to stop any more federals chasing him, and gives Bobby the chance to flee to Mexico.]]
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Not to be confused with the 2007 Hong Kong film ''Film/FlashPoint'' ''Film/{{Flash Point|2007}}'' (two words). Or with the [[Series/{{Flashpoint}} Canadian TV series]]. Or with the [[ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}} [[ComicBook/{{Flashpoint|DCComics}} 2011 DC Comics event]].
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''Flashpoint'' is a 1984 American thriller directed by William Tannen, starring Creator/KrisKristofferson, Creator/TreatWilliams, and Creator/RipTorn, Tess Harper, Creator/MiguelFerrer, and Creator/KurtwoodSmith and [[FilmOfTheBook based on the novel of the same name]] by George [=LaFountaine=]. The score was composed and performed by Music/TangerineDream. It was the first theatrical release produced by Creator/{{HBO}}.
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* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: [[spoiler:Armarillo, Roget, Lambassino, and Ernie]] are all killed by the conspiracy to cover up WhoKilledJFK.
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* KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: [[spoiler:Armarillo, Roget, Lambassino, and Ernie]] are all killed by the conspiracy to cover up WhoKilledJFK.WhoShotJFK.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Roget and Lambassino]].
* DecoyProtagonist: [[spoiler:Ernie]], who gets murdered by the conspiracy.
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* ExpositoryThemeTune: Over the ''end credits''. Creator/LeonardMaltin's guide deemed it the worst movie song of 1984.
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* ChekhovsGun: The border sensors getting set up earlier in the film. [[spoiler:The corrupt feds try to use it to hunt down Bobby Logan, but Bobby remembered a blind spot - a dry riverbed - the sensors couldn't map and he uses it to evade the gunmen and kill them from behind.]]
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* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Ernie and other loose ends are killed by a conspiracy which turns out to be real, and Bobby barely survives but is now targeted by corrupt federal agents who want him dead. However, Bobby is able to flee to Mexico with weapons and some of the money, and tells Wells to warn the conspirators that he'll be back to take his revenge.]]
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Sheriff Wells was in on the conspiracy, but covered up the disappearance of the real assassin and hoped no one would find the car wreckage with all the evidence and payoff money. When Ernie and Bobby found it, he knew the other conspirators would come back to kill everyone involved in the find. He explains it all to Bobby after the big shootout, promises to stay behind to stop any more federals chasing him, and gives Bobby the chance to flee to Mexico.]]
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Carson regularly uses the slur "wetbacks" in reference to Mexican immigrants, and one one occasion refers to a Nixon staffer of Italian ancestry as a "grease ball".
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Carson regularly uses the slur "wetbacks" in reference to Mexican immigrants, and one one occasion refers to a Nixon staffer of Italian ancestry as a "grease ball". [[spoiler:He's deeply involved in the assassination plot and cover-up as well.]]
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* WhoShotJFK: [[spoiler:Turns out the man in the truck, a certain Michael J. Curtis, was the real assassin of JFK, and the U.S. Government is willing to go to great lengths to destroy the evidence — and anyone who's seen it.]]
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* WhoShotJFK: [[spoiler:WhoShotJFK]]: [[spoiler:Turns out the man in the truck, a certain Michael J. Curtis, was the real assassin of JFK, and the U.S. Government is willing to go to great lengths to destroy the evidence — and anyone who's seen it.]]
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ernie gives one to Pedroza, a local businessman, calling him out on his exploitation of undocumented immigrants. Unsurprisingly, Pedroza's lawyer immediately tell Ernie to {{shut up|Kirk}}.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ernie gives one to Pedroza, a local businessman, calling him out on his exploitation of undocumented immigrants. Unsurprisingly, Pedroza's lawyer immediately tell tells Ernie to {{shut up|Kirk}}.
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''Flashpoint'' is a 1984 American thriller directed by William Tannen, starring Creator/KrisKristofferson, Creator/TreatWilliams, and Creator/RipTorn, and [[FilmOfTheBook based on the novel of the same name]] by George [=LaFountaine=]. The score was composed and performed by Music/TangerineDream. It was the first theatrical release produced by Creator/{{HBO}}.
Texas Border Patrol officers Bobby Logan (Kristofferson) and Ernie Wyatt (Williams) discover a Jeep buried in the desert containing a man's skeleton, a high-powered rifle, and $800,000 in cash. The money and the man's driver's license are dated from 1963. Before long, the two guards find themselves running for their lives from Federal agents who are determined to kill anyone in connection to the find.
Not to be confused with the 2007 Hong Kong film ''Film/FlashPoint'' (two words). Or with the [[Series/{{Flashpoint}} Canadian TV series]].
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!! This film includes examples of the following tropes:
* CoversAlwaysLie: The [[https://dvdlady.com/image/2019/08/flashpoint-1984-starring-kris-kristofferson-on-dvd-1.jpg DVD cover]] shows the U.S. Capitol building despite the story taking place entirely in the Texas desert. Granted, the plot ''does'' involve the discovery of a government conspiracy, but it's still a bit misleading.
%% CorruptPolitician
%% DirtyCop
%% DownerEnding
* JobStealingRobot: Ernie is ''not'' happy that his job observing the border is being usurped by the new motion sensors.
%% KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Armarillo, Roget, Lambassino, and Ernie.
* KickedUpstairs: After Ernie is nearly killed trying to arrest a drug smuggler, he and Logan are shocked to learn that Carson has taken over as head of their station following the sudden promotion of the previous supervisor.
%% MexicanStandoff
%% MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot
* MrFanservice: Ernie and Logan are introduced [[ShowerScene taking a shower]], with a brief shot of the former's naked rear. Logan also appears {{shirtless|Scene}} while excavating the wrecked Jeep.
%% NaiveNewcomer: Ernie.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Despite the story taking place in Texas, Treat Williams delivers all of Ernie's lines in his regular Mid-Atlantic accent.
%% OOCIsSeriousBusiness
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Carson regularly uses the slur "wetbacks" in reference to Mexican immigrants, and one one occasion refers to a Nixon staffer of Italian ancestry as a "grease ball".
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ernie gives one to Pedroza, a local businessman, calling him out on his exploitation of undocumented immigrants. Unsurprisingly, Pedroza's lawyer immediately tell Ernie to {{shut up|Kirk}}.
* WhoShotJFK: [[spoiler:Turns out the man in the truck, a certain Michael J. Curtis, was the real assassin of JFK, and the U.S. Government is willing to go to great lengths to destroy the evidence — and anyone who's seen it.]]
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''Flashpoint'' is a 1984 American thriller directed by William Tannen, starring Creator/KrisKristofferson, Creator/TreatWilliams, and Creator/RipTorn, and [[FilmOfTheBook based on the novel of the same name]] by George [=LaFountaine=]. The score was composed and performed by Music/TangerineDream. It was the first theatrical release produced by Creator/{{HBO}}.
Texas Border Patrol officers Bobby Logan (Kristofferson) and Ernie Wyatt (Williams) discover a Jeep buried in the desert containing a man's skeleton, a high-powered rifle, and $800,000 in cash. The money and the man's driver's license are dated from 1963. Before long, the two guards find themselves running for their lives from Federal agents who are determined to kill anyone in connection to the find.
Not to be confused with the 2007 Hong Kong film ''Film/FlashPoint'' (two words). Or with the [[Series/{{Flashpoint}} Canadian TV series]].
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!! This film includes examples of the following tropes:
* CoversAlwaysLie: The [[https://dvdlady.com/image/2019/08/flashpoint-1984-starring-kris-kristofferson-on-dvd-1.jpg DVD cover]] shows the U.S. Capitol building despite the story taking place entirely in the Texas desert. Granted, the plot ''does'' involve the discovery of a government conspiracy, but it's still a bit misleading.
%% CorruptPolitician
%% DirtyCop
%% DownerEnding
* JobStealingRobot: Ernie is ''not'' happy that his job observing the border is being usurped by the new motion sensors.
%% KilledToUpholdTheMasquerade: Armarillo, Roget, Lambassino, and Ernie.
* KickedUpstairs: After Ernie is nearly killed trying to arrest a drug smuggler, he and Logan are shocked to learn that Carson has taken over as head of their station following the sudden promotion of the previous supervisor.
%% MexicanStandoff
%% MinorCrimeRevealsMajorPlot
* MrFanservice: Ernie and Logan are introduced [[ShowerScene taking a shower]], with a brief shot of the former's naked rear. Logan also appears {{shirtless|Scene}} while excavating the wrecked Jeep.
%% NaiveNewcomer: Ernie.
* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Despite the story taking place in Texas, Treat Williams delivers all of Ernie's lines in his regular Mid-Atlantic accent.
%% OOCIsSeriousBusiness
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Carson regularly uses the slur "wetbacks" in reference to Mexican immigrants, and one one occasion refers to a Nixon staffer of Italian ancestry as a "grease ball".
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ernie gives one to Pedroza, a local businessman, calling him out on his exploitation of undocumented immigrants. Unsurprisingly, Pedroza's lawyer immediately tell Ernie to {{shut up|Kirk}}.
* WhoShotJFK: [[spoiler:Turns out the man in the truck, a certain Michael J. Curtis, was the real assassin of JFK, and the U.S. Government is willing to go to great lengths to destroy the evidence — and anyone who's seen it.]]
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