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The first film that Creator/JohnWoo made in Hollywood after leaving Hong Kong, ''Hard Target'' (1993) starts off with a homeless man fleeing attackers on motorcycles, before being shot down just before he escapes across a river. Cut to three weeks later, when Natasha Binder (played by Yancy Butler) is looking for her father deep in the heart of New Orleans. Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme... sorry, "Chance" Boudreaux, saves her from a gang. Natasha, after being told that the police won't be able to find her father, hires Chance to protect her as she investigates. Soon, the pair find out about a secret "hunting" ring, led by BigBad Emil Fouchon (Creator/LanceHenriksen) and ProfessionalKiller Pik Van Cleaf (Creator/ArnoldVosloo) and must turn the tables on the hunters.
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The first film that Creator/JohnWoo made in Hollywood after leaving Hong Kong, ''Hard Target'' (1993) starts off with a homeless man fleeing attackers on motorcycles, before being shot down just before he escapes across a river. Cut to three weeks later, when Natasha Binder (played by Yancy Butler) Creator/YancyButler) is looking for her father deep in the heart of New Orleans. Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme... sorry, "Chance" Boudreaux, saves her from a gang. Natasha, after being told that the police won't be able to find her father, hires Chance to protect her as she investigates. Soon, the pair find out about a secret "hunting" ring, led by BigBad Emil Fouchon (Creator/LanceHenriksen) and ProfessionalKiller Pik Van Cleaf (Creator/ArnoldVosloo) and must turn the tables on the hunters.
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** Under pressure, most people would probably throw away a grenade instead of trying to unscrew it and remove the fuse.
** Though he has just received a money belt filled with $10,000, the prey in one hunt doesn't consider ''paying'' one of the many bystanders for help.
** The victim in the beginning of the movie might have made it, had he taken the easier route of falling into the water and swimming. In the case of the victims, though, it should be noted that both men by those times were badly injured, scared out of their minds, and not thinking straight.
** Under pressure, most people would probably throw away a grenade instead of trying to unscrew it and remove the fuse.
** Though he has just received a money belt filled with $10,000, the prey in one hunt doesn't consider ''paying'' one of the many bystanders for help.
** The victim in the beginning of the movie might have made it, had he taken the easier route of falling into the water and swimming. In the case of the victims, though, it should be noted that both men by those times were badly injured, scared out of their minds, and not thinking straight.
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* GrievousBottleyHarm: When Chance beats up the goons who attempt to mug Natasha, one of them attacks him witha beer bottle. Chance makes the thug hit himself with the bottle instead.
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* ShoppingCartOfHomelessness: Natasha finds her father's belongings in an abandoned shopping cart.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Both Fouchon and Van Cleaf are very charming and polite, able to convince desperate people with honeyed appeals to their damaged sense of self-worth, but are callous sociopaths underneath it.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Both Fouchon and Van Cleaf are very charming and polite, able to convince desperate people with honeyed appeals to their damaged sense of self-worth, self-worth and making mocking polite conversation throughout the film, but are callous sociopaths underneath it.
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* VillainousValor: Credit where it's due, Van Cleaf and Fouchon are not cowards. They are perfectly willing to fight against Chance with their men and Fouchon, despite being a skinny middle aged man, doesn't go down easy when up against a former Marine and Silver Star recipient who is decades younger and a martial arts expert.
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* VillainousValor: Credit where it's due, Van Cleaf and Fouchon are not cowards. They are perfectly willing to fight against Chance with their men and Fouchon, despite being a skinny middle aged man, man with little combat experience, doesn't go down easy when up against a former Marine and Silver Star recipient who is decades younger and a martial arts expert.
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* WeaponOfChoice: This being a John Woo film, almost everyone naturally uses a Beretta 92 as theirs.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: Fouchon puts up a pretty good fight against Chance right up to his death.
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* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Fouchon is completely baffled as to why Chance went out of his way to upend his operations or cares about the people he targets.
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* EvilSoundsDeep: The two villains are played by Arnold Vosloo and Lance Henriksen, putting them squarely in this camp.
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* FauxAffablyEvil: Both Fouchon and Van Cleaf are very charming and polite, able to convince desperate people with honeyed appeals to their damaged sense of self-worth, but are callous sociopaths underneath it.
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* MrFanservice: Chance. We even get a nice slow pan over his ripped muscles when he strips to a tank top. Also he's played by Jean Claude Van Damme, making him this by default.
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* SemperFi: Chance served in the US Marine Corps and earned a Silver Star.
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* VillainousValor: Credit where it's due, Van Cleaf and Fouchon are not cowards. They are perfectly willing to fight against Chance with their men and Fouchon, despite being a skinny middle aged man, doesn't go down easy when up against a former Marine and Silver Star recipient who is decades younger and a martial arts expert.
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* OhCrap: Fouchon's FamousLastWords: "Whoops." ''[=*Boom!*=]''
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* OhCrap: Fouchon's FamousLastWords: last words: "Whoops." ''[=*Boom!*=]''
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'''Chance:''' Both\\
'''Douvee:'''...uh huh.
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'''Chance:''' Both\\
Both.\\
'''Douvee:'''...uh Uh huh.
'''Douvee:'''...
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* FamousLastWords: Along with funniest: "''Whoop.''"
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* FaceDeathWithDignity: [[spoiler:Elijah Roper]] dies standing up rather than begging for his life or mercy when it's clear that the people of New Orleans aren't going to be of any help at all.
* GargleBlaster: Dove offers Natasha some of his homemade moonshine while warning her not to spill any as it can "kill the grass" they're standing on.
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* TheWorfEffect: Chase himself is ambushed and overwhelmed by two of Fouchon's goons early in the film when he's investigating where Binder supposedly died, establishing the villains as legitimate threats and that the hero may not be able to defeat them head-on unless he's being clever.
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->'''Douvee:''' So, tell me. This man who chase after you, he mad at you for business or pleasure.\\
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->'''Douvee:''' So, tell me. This man who chase after you, he mad at you for business or pleasure.\\pleasure?\\
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->''"Now take your pig stick and your boyfriend, and find a bus to catch."''
-->-- '''Chance Boudreaux'''
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->'''Douvee:''' So, tell me. This man who chase after you, he mad at you for business or pleasure.\\
'''Chance:''' Both\\
'''Douvee:'''...uh huh.
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* IntimateTelecommunications: The HuntingTheMostDangerousGame victims are selected by a man who distributes phone sex flyers and looks for homeless vets who find the job demeaning.
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* EarAche: Fouchon and Van Cleef beat Randal and cut his ear as a punishment for sending them a man with a daughter.
-->'''Van Cleaf''': Randal, I come back here, I cut me a steak.
-->'''Van Cleaf''': Randal, I come back here, I cut me a steak.
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* {{Homage}}: The ear-cutting scene was included by Woo as a friendly homage to ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', which included his MexicanStandoff.
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* SelfPlagiarism: Woo references some of his Hong Kong works:
** Fouchon kicks a burning barrel at Chance and he jumps over it, as in the climax to ''Film/BulletInTheHead''.
** Several to ''Film/HardBoiled'' - the one-shot pistol Fouchon uses is the same one used by Mad Dog, Chance and Van Cleaf shoot at each other through windows and a woman shoots a man who slapped her and called her a bitch.
** Fouchon kicks a burning barrel at Chance and he jumps over it, as in the climax to ''Film/BulletInTheHead''.
** Several to ''Film/HardBoiled'' - the one-shot pistol Fouchon uses is the same one used by Mad Dog, Chance and Van Cleaf shoot at each other through windows and a woman shoots a man who slapped her and called her a bitch.
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* KubrickStare: Van Cleaf gives tis look to Boudreaux when they first meet in Randall's office.
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* KubrickStare: Van Cleaf gives tis this look to Boudreaux when they first meet in Randall's office.
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* ThrowItIn: The bit where Fouchon's BaddassLongcoat catches fire and he strips it off while cursing Boudreaux was not scripted. A pyrotechnic being used in one of the stunts accidentally set the coat on fire, and Creator/LanceHenriksen remained in character while stripping it off and throwing it away. John Woo was so impressed with the scene that he left it in the film.
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* ThrowItIn: The bit where Fouchon's BaddassLongcoat catches fire and he strips it off while cursing Boudreaux was not scripted. A pyrotechnic being used in one of the stunts accidentally set the coat on fire, and Creator/LanceHenriksen remained in character while stripping it off and throwing it away. John Woo was so impressed with the scene that he left it in the film.
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* AnimalAssassin: Chance uses a deadly snake he knocked out earlier as part of BoobyTrap he sets up. It falls on one of Fouchon's hunters and bites he repeatedly. Fouchon blows the head of the snake and the performs a MercyKill on the screaming hunter.
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* AnimalAssassin: Chance uses a deadly snake he knocked out earlier as part of BoobyTrap he sets up. It falls on one of Fouchon's hunters and bites he repeatedly. Fouchon blows the head of the snake and the then performs a MercyKill on the screaming hunter.
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* AnimalAssassin: Chance uses a deadly snake he knocked out earlier as part of BoobyTrap he sets up. It falls on one of Fouchon's hunters and bites he repeatedly. Fouchon blows the head of the snake and the performs a MercyKill on the screaming hunter.
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* PursuedProtagonist: The ColdOpen of the movie is Binder being [[HuntingTheMostDangerousGame hunted for sport]] through the streets by Mr. Lopacki--Fouchon's latest client--accompanied by Fouchon, Van Cleaf, and Fouchon's 'hounds' on motorbikes.
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* SuperWindowJump: Boudreaux evades a grenad blast by jumping through a window.
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* TwangHello: The opening scene of the movie is Mr. Lopacki putting a crossbow bolt into the wall beside Binder's head. As Binder jumps away from this, Fouchon's 'hounds' switch on their headlights and Binder realises he is surrounded.
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* BattleAmongstTheFlames: The final showdown between Chance Boudreaux and Fouchon, Van Cleaf and the hunters turns into a battle amongst the flames due to old Mardi Gras parade floats apparently being MadeOfExplodium.
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* HollywoodFire: The final showdown between Chance and the bad guys is a BattleAmongstTheFlames in a workshop full of old parade floats, but there is no smoke, and no one suffers any ill effects from radiant heat, smoke inhalation, toxic fumes, or any one of the other myriad hazards that should be present in an enclosed, burning, industrial environment.
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* WhiteGangbangers: The gang that attempts to rob and rape Nat outside the diner is predominantly white, with a single black member.
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* DiedInMyYourArmsTonight: Nat cradles the fatally wounded Detective Mitchell in her arms as she dies.
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* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: Uncle Douvee pulls off a brilliant one. He shoots an arrow that narrowly misses Fouchon's head. It looks like he was aiming at Fouchon but missed. However, the arrow goes on to shatter a jar of moonshine on the bench and the oil lamp behind it. The spilled moonshine ignites, causing the sill to blow up. This lights the fuse of the dynamite Uncle Douvee has concealed all over his property, blowing the whole place up.
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* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: Uncle Douvee pulls off a brilliant one. He shoots an arrow that narrowly misses Fouchon's head. It looks like he was aiming at Fouchon but missed. However, the arrow goes on to shatter a jar of moonshine on the bench and the oil lamp behind it. The spilled moonshine ignites, causing the sill still to blow up. This lights the fuse of the dynamite Uncle Douvee has concealed all over his property, blowing the whole place up.
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* PragmaticVillainy: Fouchon furiously beats Randall for having chosen a man with a daughter for his hunting game - now that Natasha is looking for his father she'll eventualy find out the connection so that means he'll have more troubles to solve.
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* WhyAmITicking: Chance drops a primed hand grenade down Fouchon's pants and then tosses him away.
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* ExactlyWhatIAimedAt: Uncle Douvee pulls off a brilliant one. He shoots an arrow that narrowly misses Fouchon's head. It looks like he was aiming at Fouchon but missed. However, the arrow goes on to shatter a jar of moonshine on the bench and the oil lamp behind it. The spilled moonshine ignites, causing the sill to blow up. This lights the fuse of the dynamite Uncle Douvee has concealed all over his property, blowing the whole place up.
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* OffBridgeOntoVehicle: Chance and Nat escape from Fouchon, Van Cleaf and their mooks by jumping of a bridge onto a freight train passing underneath.
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* RevealingReflection: Chance sees Stephan sneaking up on him in the reflection of the crash helmet visor of the mook he is currently beating up.
