History Film / MostWanted

* AttemptedRape: Subverted. When Dunn takes Victoria into the kitchen and he starts talking about how he “hasn’t had a piece in five years” which Victoria immediately thinks that he means that he hasn’t had a woman in years (to be fair he hasn’t being locked up) and tried to cover her chest up but Dunn then makes his way over to her saying that he’s “gotta have a taste”, Victoria closes her eyes and freezes that she’s going to be violated but Dunn actually goes for a piece of Round House Pizza that she has on the counter and which Vicki takes a heavy sigh of relief while Dunn devours and cherishes the slice considering it’s been YEARS since he’s had any good food.

''Most Wanted'' is a 1997 action thriller film written by, produced by and starring Keenan Ivory Wayans and an AllStarCast comprising Creator/JonVoight, Creator/PaulSorvino, Creator/EricRoberts and [[Series/LawAndOrder Jill Hennessy]]. Wayans portrays James Anthony Dunn, a Marine Force Recon sniper on death row who is rescued by a black ops group and tasked with assassinating a traitorous CorruptCorporateExecutive. However, the assassination must take place while said executive is escorting the First Lady of the United States on a visit to a Veterans Hospital in LA. While Dunn is lining up his shot, someone assasinates the ''First Lady'' - and then sets Dunn up to be the fall guy.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Dunn was given a ''death sentence'' for shooting his crazy CO in self-defense. The lack of witnesses may have been a factor.

%%* ArmiesAreEvil: In this instance, just the 82nd Airborne Division.
* AssholeVictim: Dunn’s lieutenant, who ordered him to kill a ten year old boy, then tried to shoot Dunn when he refused. When Dunn shot him in self-defense, he had it coming.

%%* ClearMyName: Dunn.

* InterServiceRivalry: Woodward flings his share of anti-Marine insults Dunn’s way.

* ArmiesAreEvil: In this instance, just the 82nd Airborne Division.
* AssholeVictim: Dunn’s lieutenant, who ordered him to kill a ten year old boy, then tried to shoot Dunn when he refused. When Dunn shot him in self defense, he had it coming.

* ClearMyName: Dunn.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Dunn was given a ''death sentence'' for disobeying what was clearly an illegal order, then shooting his crazy CO in self defense. The lack of witnesses may have been a factor.
* EveryScarHasAStory: Which is why General Woodward is pretty proud of showing a pretty impressive burn scar that he has on his arm and he advises his fellow soldiers to do the same. Later on, Dunn notices that the man has covered the scar and removes the wrist band, exposing the security disk that Woodward had shoved beneath his scar tissue.

* IndyPloy: Although he do plans ahead as best as he can, Dunn is still facing large odds. He even makes it a BadassBoast at the climax:

* TheMostWanted: As the title says, the plot is about a Marine Force Recon sniper in a mission to kill a CorruptCorporateExecutive who's close to the First Lady of USA. Instead, someone else ''killed the First Lady'' and he's FrameUp for the crime.
* TheNeidermeyer: General Woodward cares not one iota for the paratroopers under his command. It is why he subjected many of them to a bio weapon test, then had the First Lady killed to cover it up.

* WouldNotHurtAChild: As a Marine sniper Dunn was ordered to shoot a 10 year old goat herder. He refused and ended up in prison for it.

''Most Wanted'' is a 1997 action thriller film written by, produced by and starring Keenan Ivory Wayans and an AllStarCast comprising Creator/JonVoight, Creator/PaulSorvino, Creator/EricRoberts and [[Series/LawAndOrder Jill Hennessy]]. Wayans portrays James Anthony Dunn a Marine Force Recon sniper on death row who is rescued by a black ops group and tasked with assassinating a traitorous CorruptCorporateExecutive. However, the assassination must take place while said executive is escorting the First Lady of the United States on a visit to a Veterans Hospital in LA. While Dunn is lining up his shot, someone assasinates the ''First Lady'' - and then sets Dunn up to be the fall guy.

Although this film shares many similarities with Film/{{Shooter}} (Marine sniper setup as a fall guy for a political assassination) and Film/USMarshalls (an African American Marine spec ops fugitive looking to clear his name), it actually predates both of them. It however fared poorly with critics and audiences. Jon Voight’s Razzie nomination worthy LargeHam performance may have been a contributing factor to that.

!Tropes identified in this movie are:

''Most Wanted'' is a 1996 action thriller film written by, produced by and starring Keenan Ivory Wayans and an AllStarCast comprising Creator/JonVoight, Creator/PaulSorvino, Creator/EricRoberts and [[Series/LawAndOrder Jill Hennessy]]. Wayans portrays James Anthony Dunn a Marine Force Recon sniper on death row who is rescued by a black ops group and tasked with assassinating a traitorous CorruptCorporateExecutive. However, the assassination must take place while said executive is escorting the First Lady of the United States on a visit to a Veterans Hospital in LA. While Dunn is lining up his shot, someone assasinates the ''First Lady'' - and then sets Dunn up to be the fall guy.

Tropes positively identified in this movie are:

''Most Wanted'' is a 1996 action thriller film written by, produced by and starring Keenan Ivory Williams and an AllStarCast comprising Creator/JonVoight, Creator/PaulSorvino, Creator/EricRoberts and [[Series/LawAndOrder Jill Hennessy]]. Williams portrays James Anthony Dunn a Marine Force Recon sniper on death row who is rescued by a black ops group and tasked with assassinating a traitorous CorruptCorporateExecutive. However, the assassination must take place while said executive is escorting the First Lady of the United States on a visit to a Veterans Hospital in LA. While Dunn is lining up his shot, someone assasinates the ''First Lady'' - and then sets Dunn up to be the fall guy.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Dunn easily identifies that Victoria is single and her house is rigged to explode by just looking through her house’ contents.

-->'''Dunn'': "[[DeadpanSnarker Ice bullets? What's next, Tooty-Fruity flavor?]]"

* AbnormalAmmo: Dunn is provided with a bullet made of ice for his (supposed) protection mission, which will dissolve in the target and leave an untraceable kill (and aside from this it's supposed to have the same ballistics coefficient as any other regular bullet). This was one of the TropesExaminedByTheMythbusters, with a resolution of "Busted" -- the bullet dissolved instantly when the gunpowder went off.

* AbnormalAmmo: Dunn is provided with a bullet made of ice for his (supposed) protection mission, which will dissolve in the target and leave an untraceable kill (and aside from this it's supposed to have the same ballistics coefficient as any other regular bullet). This was one of the MythsTestedByTheMythbusters, with a resolution of "Busted" -- the bullet dissolved instantly when the gunpowder went off.

Tropes positively identified in this movie are

* TheNiedermeyer: General Woodward cares not one iota for the paratroopers under his command. It is why he subjected many of them to a bio weapon test, then had the First Lady killed to cover it up.

* DidNotGetTheGirl: Kind of impossible to do so, when the girl has a bright medical career ahead of her, while the guy is effectively presumed dead and [[Unperson unpersoned]].

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