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* AnimalAssassin: Rabbit tries to have Helen cornered in a toilet by releasing poisonous reptiles to maul her.
* CassandraTruth: Kit found out about the Doctor's impending assault on the hotel and tries warning the staff about it, but of course none of them buys a word he said. He then turns to the police for assistance, to no avail, save for Det. Chow, a rookie cop whose girlfriend Joyce is working in the hotel, and decides to escort Kit over there. They were unfortunately too late - the Doctor's mooks have successfully infiltrated the hotel, and killed off all the security guards and staff in the lobby.
* DressingAsTheEnemy: Subverted. Kit, trying to retrieve a video cassette containing evidence of the Doctor's activities in a display room full of mooks, managed to get in by stealing the coat and tie of another. He gets recognized almost instantly as he enters the display room, but then Kit is prepared and easily deals with all the terrorists in under a minute.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: During the display room fight between Kit and Rabbit, the latter distracts the former by kicking a dead mook at his direction.
** Helen managed to take out a random terrorist by kicking his nuts. Before smashing his brains in with a fire extinguisher.
* HollywoodSilencer: The first hotel guard is killed by a terrorist's silenced pistol, which is soft enough that the other guard in the nearby guardhouse barely a meter away doesn't hear a thing.
* LosingAShoeInTheStruggle: When the terrorists took over the hotel, Helen, being one of the very few guests who escaped, deliberately kicks off her heels. She spends the rest of the night (and pretty much the rest of the film) barefoot.
* MacheteMayhem: A few of the villains... notably, Fai who [[AnArmAndALeg removes the arm of an unfortunate guard]] prior to killing him, and later on Kong who suddenly whips out a small machete as a backup when fighting Frankie.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: Kit failed to disarm the Doctor's first bomb, resulting in his wife, son, and a bus full of children being blown up, resulting in Kit's life spiraling into depression until a year later, he's faced with disarming a second bomb, ''exactly'' identical to the first, now strapped on Helen. [[spoiler: His second attempt is far more successful]].
* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Helen attempts to pull this off by hiding in a toilet full of murals, disguising herself as a background picture as Rabbit walks in to take a leak. Immediately subverted ''seconds'' later - Rabbit leaves, Helen tries to get out as well, only to suddenly realize Rabbit ''knew'' she was there the whole time and had released poisonous reptiles all over the loo.
* MacheteMayhem: A few of the villains... notably, Fai who [[AnArmAndALeg removes the arm of an unfortunate guard]] prior to killing him, and later on Kong who suddenly whips out a small machete as a backup when fighting Frankie.
* MyGreatestSecondChance: Kit failed to disarm the Doctor's first bomb, resulting in his wife, son, and a bus full of children being blown up, resulting in Kit's life spiraling into depression until a year later, he's faced with disarming a second bomb, ''exactly'' identical to the first, now strapped on Helen. [[spoiler: His second attempt is far more successful]].
* NobodyHereButUsStatues: Helen attempts to pull this off by hiding in a toilet full of murals, disguising herself as a background picture as Rabbit walks in to take a leak. Immediately subverted ''seconds'' later - Rabbit leaves, Helen tries to get out as well, only to suddenly realize Rabbit ''knew'' she was there the whole time and had released poisonous reptiles all over the loo.
* SoundtrackDissonance: A ''major'' one; after Fai killed the unfortunate guard in the surveillance room, Rabbit, Kong and their goons began slaughtering the staff in the lobby. Fai then turns on a nearby radio playing a classical song while doing an impromptu [[DancingWithMyself dance with herself]], as the scene intercuts with the lobby staff getting massacred while the music keeps going on.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Frankie goes from a CowardlyLion to mangaging to taking on Kong in the final battle.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Frankie goes from a CowardlyLion to mangaging managing to taking on Kong in the final battle.
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* CarFu: How Kit managed to force an entrance into the hotel, via driving his van through it's front, running down several mooks in the process, before proceeding to ''drive into a nearby elevator''.
* DownerBeginning: The film opens with Kit attempting to disarm a TimeBomb, and failing. Resulting in a bus containing his wife, son, and more than twenty children getting blown to bits.
* DiesWideOpen: [[spoiler: The Doctor, last thing he sees before succumbing to snake venom being a group of punks looting him of his belongings]].
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: As Kit crashes the chopper (see below) the rotor blade detaches and hacks an unfortunate mook into two from somewhere above the waist.
* HellishCopter: Kit's second attempt at infiltrating the hotel, this time via forcing a landing on it's top. Unfortunately there are mooks on the helipad firing away forcing Kit to crash into a penthouse.
* HellishCopter: Kit's second attempt at infiltrating the hotel, this time via forcing a landing on it's top. Unfortunately there are mooks on the helipad firing away forcing Kit to crash into a penthouse.
* InstantChucks: Frankie, during his LetsGetDangerous moment at the end, fights Kong using a pair of hotel stanchions as chucks.
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* KarmaHoudini: Beautifully subverted. Just when the Doctor is about to get away, [[spoiler:he starts bleeding from the nose. Then Li coldly tells him that he's been poisoned with snake venom, and he only has seconds to live]].
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* KarmaHoudini: Beautifully subverted. KarmaHoudiniWarranty: Just when the Doctor is about to get away, [[spoiler:he starts bleeding from the nose. Then Li coldly tells him that he's been poisoned with snake venom, and he only has seconds to live]].
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* RobbingTheDead: [[spoiler: The Doctor's last scene. Succumbing to the venom in his body, staggering out a phone booth, he begs for a trio of hooligans to get an ambulance. The hooligans instead decide to loot the Doctor's body even before he's completely dead]].
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* UndignifiedDeath: How many films end with the BigBad [[spoiler: getting his corpse looted even as he's succumbing to his wounds? Leaving him penniless and lifeless at the side of a rubbish-strewn road]]? While a triumphant jazz music plays in the background? Besides this one?
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* HumbleHero: Kit quietly indicates that he doesn't want public recognition for his actions in the hotel, causing Frankie to hastily change his statement to his press that he wasn't the only hero of the evening to shared credit with the Hong Kong police.
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* WireDilemma: Kit's wife was killed because he made the wrong call on which wire to pull on a bomb made by the Doctor. Then he runs into another bomb of the same type on his new love interest. [[spoiler:It turns out that it didn't matter if he picked red or blue, because the ''real'' control wire was a smaller, uncolored wire that was easy to miss.]]
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* EmptyElevator: After Kit and the Inspector managed to escape the lobby ambush and make their way to the penthouse, the Doctor's mooks sets up an ambush near the penthouse's elevator... only to find it empty. Kit used an alternate entrance instead.
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* {{Expy}}: The Doctor is essentially Hans Gruber while his henchman Kong is Karl. Frankie is also pretty much a fictionalized version of Creator/JackieChan.
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* {{Expy}}: The Doctor is essentially Hans Gruber while his henchman Kong is Karl. Frankie is also pretty much a fictionalized version of Creator/JackieChan.Creator/JackieChan, with Frankie's father and manager being stand-ins for Jackie's, respectively.
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* {{Expy}}: The Doctor is essentially Hans Gruber while his henchman Kong is Karl. Frank is also pretty much a fictionalized version of Creator/Jackie Chan.
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* {{Expy}}: The Doctor is essentially Hans Gruber while his henchman Kong is Karl. Frank Frankie is also pretty much a fictionalized version of Creator/Jackie Chan.Creator/JackieChan.
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* {{Expy}}: The Doctor is essentially Hans Gruber while his henchman Kong is Karl. Frank is also pretty much a fictionalized version of Creator/Jackie Chan.
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* CardCarryingVillain: The Doctor. After [[spoiler: seemingly]] successfully pulling off his VillainExitStageLeft in the climax, he announces to Kit that he plans on continuing his crimes.
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* CardCarryingVillain: The Doctor. After [[spoiler: seemingly]] successfully pulling off his VillainExitStageLeft in the climax, he announces to Kit that he plans on continuing his crimes.crimes, including RapePillageAndBurn.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Frankie goes from a CowardlyLion to mangaging to taking on Kong in the final battle.
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* ArcWords: "No risk, no reward."
* BigBad: The Doctor.
* BigBad: The Doctor.
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* CardCarryingVillain: The Doctor. After [[spoiler: seemingly]] successfully pulling off his VillainExitStageLeft in the climax, he announces to Kit that he plans on continuing his crimes.
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* TheDragon: Kong, the Doctor's most loyal henchman who also provides the biggest fight with Frankie.
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* VillainExitStageLeft: The Doctor pulls this off near the climax after Kit throws a knife at his shoulder, but not before taunting Kit that he's failed again.
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* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The BigBad insists on being called the Doctor.
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Infant Immortality has been renamed and split per Trope Repair Shop.
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* GroinAttack:
** Kong kicked Fai-Fai on the crotch after they had tense argument.
** Fai-Fai also kneed Frankie on the crotch after she revealed her true colors.
** Frankie also accidentally hit himself there with armchair while fighting Kong.
** Kong kicked Fai-Fai on the crotch after they had tense argument.
** Fai-Fai also kneed Frankie on the crotch after she revealed her true colors.
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So Cool Its Awesome is a fanspeak term that doesn't get wicks.
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* SuckThePoisonOut: Also doubles as a ChekhovsGun - because the hero made an incision before sucking out the poison, there was venom on his knife, which ensures that the BigBad isn't able to run for long when he escapes after being stabbed with that knife.
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* SuckThePoisonOut: Also doubles as a ChekhovsGun - because the hero made an incision before sucking out the poison, there was venom on his knife, which ensures that the BigBad isn't able to run for long when he escapes after being stabbed with that knife.
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* TakeThat: The movie pokes fun at most 90s action movies, especially ''Die Hard'' and ''Film/{{Speed}}''. The director also allegedly based Frankie's character off of Creator/JackieChan, implying that he was a womanizer who never did his own stunts. Jet Li later issued a public apology to Jackie Chan for having taken part in this movie, and it is believed that residual bad blood over the affair may have had a part in delaying a Jackie Chan/Jet Li on-screen collaboration until Film/''TheForbiddenKingdom'', when both actors were middle-aged.
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* TakeThat: The movie pokes fun at most 90s action movies, especially ''Die Hard'' and ''Film/{{Speed}}''. The director also allegedly based Frankie's character off of Creator/JackieChan, implying that he was a womanizer who never did his own stunts. Jet Li later issued a public apology to Jackie Chan for having taken part in this movie, and it is believed that residual bad blood over the affair may have had a part in delaying a Jackie Chan/Jet Li on-screen collaboration until Film/''TheForbiddenKingdom'', ''Film/TheForbiddenKingdom'', when both actors were middle-aged.
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* TakeThat: The movie pokes fun at most 90s action movies, especially ''Die Hard'' and ''Film/{{Speed}}''. The director also allegedly based Frankie's character off of Creator/JackieChan, implying that he was a womanizer who never did his own stunts. Jet Li later issued a public apology to Jackie Chan for having taken part in this movie, and it is believed that residual bad blood over the affair may have had a part in delaying a Jackie Chan/Jet Li on-screen collaboration until Film/''TheForbiddenKingdom'', when both actors were middle-aged.
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''High Risk'' (alternatively known as ''Meltdown'') is a 1995 action-comedy film directed and produced by Wong Jing. It stars Creator/JetLi and Jacky Cheung.
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''High Risk'' (alternatively known as ''Meltdown'') ''Meltdown'' in the U.S.) is a 1995 action-comedy film directed and produced by Wong Jing. It stars Creator/JetLi and Jacky Cheung.
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* KarmaHoudini: Beautifully subverted. Just when the Doctor is about to get away, [[spoiler:he starts bleeding from the nose. Then Li coldly tells him that he's been poisoned with snake venom, and he only has seconds to live]].
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''High Risk'' (alternatively known as ''Meltdown'') is a 1995 action-comedy film directed and produced by Wong Jing. It stars Creator/JetLi and Jacky Cheung.
[[MyGreatestFailure After failing to save his wife and several children]] from a MadBomber named “The Doctor,” Kit Li retires from the Honk Kong police squad and becomes a bodyguard and stunt double for action star Frankie Lone. However, two years after the tragedy, the Doctor and his group of terrorists return to cause more trouble for Kit when they storm the Hotel Grandeur and take everyone hostage. With the help of Frankie and Detective Chow, it’s up to Kit to sneak inside the hotel, save the hostages, and stop the Doctor for good.
Essentially, it’s ''Film/DieHard'' with more comedy and martial arts. [[SoCoolItsAwesome And Jet Li]].
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!!Tropes present in ''High Risk'' include:
* BoomHeadshot: How Detective Chow kills [[spoiler:Fai-Fai]].
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Frankie. Throughout the movie, he's just a pompous CowardlyLion. But after his father is bullied around by Kong, Frankie shows him that he really ''is'' the badass actor he portrays in his films.
* DarkActionGirl: Fai-Fai.
* DestinationDefenestration: Done realistic with [[spoiler:Frankie's manager]], who's tossed to his death after a window pane had already shattered.
* DieHardOnAnX: It's ''Die Hard'' inside a hotel.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The Doctor, who constantly talks in a calm, subtle tone when he's threatening innocents and constantly [[EvilGloating taunts Kit]].
* HopeSpot: Seconds before the bomb in the ActionPrologue goes off, Kit tells one of his men to cut the red wire. He does, and the bomb stops counting down. [[StuffBlowingUp Then it reactivates...]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Rabbit, courtesy of a bar from a light fixture.]]
* InfantImmortality: Averted before the opening credits.
* {{Irony}}: The Doctor's plan is to steal expensive jewels from the hotel. [[spoiler:Seconds before the Doctor dies, some random vagrants come by and steal his watch and other jewelry he's wearing]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The Doctor is killed by Kit after he throws a dagger into his shoulder that was poisoned from one of Rabbit's snakes]].
* PapaWolf: Inverted. Towards the end of the film, Frankie's father is being harassed by Kong, and it's Frankie, of ''all'' people, who stands up for him and delivers Kong a beating.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Rabbit. He briefly garroted, then electrocuted, and then impaled in the torso]].
* RedshirtArmy: The security guards at Hotel Grandeur, all of whom are gunned down with little effort by the Doctor's men.
* SoftGlass:
** Subverted. When Detective Chow jumps into a car Kit's driving, he does so by hurling his body through the rear window with no difficulty. Then the camera pans over to his leg, which is bleeding and covered in shards of glass.
** Subverted again when Kit is fighting Rabbit. At one point during the fight, Kit bashes his head through a small glass window on a door. He starts bleeding almost immediately.
* TakeThat: The movie pokes fun at most 90s action movies, especially ''Die Hard'' and ''Film/{{Speed}}''. The director also allegedly based Frankie's character off of Creator/JackieChan, implying that he was a womanizer who never did his own stunts.
* TerroristsWithoutACause: The Doctor and his mercenaries. All they care about is getting rich, and the Doctor seems to enjoy detonating his bombs around the city even after he gets what he wants.
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[[MyGreatestFailure After failing to save his wife and several children]] from a MadBomber named “The Doctor,” Kit Li retires from the Honk Kong police squad and becomes a bodyguard and stunt double for action star Frankie Lone. However, two years after the tragedy, the Doctor and his group of terrorists return to cause more trouble for Kit when they storm the Hotel Grandeur and take everyone hostage. With the help of Frankie and Detective Chow, it’s up to Kit to sneak inside the hotel, save the hostages, and stop the Doctor for good.
Essentially, it’s ''Film/DieHard'' with more comedy and martial arts. [[SoCoolItsAwesome And Jet Li]].
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!!Tropes present in ''High Risk'' include:
* BoomHeadshot: How Detective Chow kills [[spoiler:Fai-Fai]].
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Frankie. Throughout the movie, he's just a pompous CowardlyLion. But after his father is bullied around by Kong, Frankie shows him that he really ''is'' the badass actor he portrays in his films.
* DarkActionGirl: Fai-Fai.
* DestinationDefenestration: Done realistic with [[spoiler:Frankie's manager]], who's tossed to his death after a window pane had already shattered.
* DieHardOnAnX: It's ''Die Hard'' inside a hotel.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The Doctor, who constantly talks in a calm, subtle tone when he's threatening innocents and constantly [[EvilGloating taunts Kit]].
* HopeSpot: Seconds before the bomb in the ActionPrologue goes off, Kit tells one of his men to cut the red wire. He does, and the bomb stops counting down. [[StuffBlowingUp Then it reactivates...]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler:Rabbit, courtesy of a bar from a light fixture.]]
* InfantImmortality: Averted before the opening credits.
* {{Irony}}: The Doctor's plan is to steal expensive jewels from the hotel. [[spoiler:Seconds before the Doctor dies, some random vagrants come by and steal his watch and other jewelry he's wearing]].
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:The Doctor is killed by Kit after he throws a dagger into his shoulder that was poisoned from one of Rabbit's snakes]].
* PapaWolf: Inverted. Towards the end of the film, Frankie's father is being harassed by Kong, and it's Frankie, of ''all'' people, who stands up for him and delivers Kong a beating.
* RasputinianDeath: [[spoiler:Rabbit. He briefly garroted, then electrocuted, and then impaled in the torso]].
* RedshirtArmy: The security guards at Hotel Grandeur, all of whom are gunned down with little effort by the Doctor's men.
* SoftGlass:
** Subverted. When Detective Chow jumps into a car Kit's driving, he does so by hurling his body through the rear window with no difficulty. Then the camera pans over to his leg, which is bleeding and covered in shards of glass.
** Subverted again when Kit is fighting Rabbit. At one point during the fight, Kit bashes his head through a small glass window on a door. He starts bleeding almost immediately.
* TakeThat: The movie pokes fun at most 90s action movies, especially ''Die Hard'' and ''Film/{{Speed}}''. The director also allegedly based Frankie's character off of Creator/JackieChan, implying that he was a womanizer who never did his own stunts.
* TerroristsWithoutACause: The Doctor and his mercenaries. All they care about is getting rich, and the Doctor seems to enjoy detonating his bombs around the city even after he gets what he wants.
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