History Film / PatriotsDay

* PrecisionFStrike: Dun Meng yells "FUCK YOU!" at Tamerlan as he makes his escape from the car. Afterwards, when he tells Tommy that his kidnappers were the Marathon bombers and how the police can track the GPS in his car, Tommy praises him for his actions and tells him he's a brave guy. Dun Meng ignores this and just tells him to "Get those motherfuckers".

* MadeOfIron: Officer Joseph Reynolds, one of the policemen involved in the Watertown shootout. Between getting his face cut up by glass shards when the bullets start flying and then repeatedly knocked around by pipe bombs when they explode in close proximity, he ''refuses'' to stay down and keeps getting back up again and again.

* MadeOfIron: Officer Joseph Reynolds, one of the policemen involved in the Watertown shootout. Between getting his face cut up by glass shards when the bullets start flying and then knocked around by pipe bombs when they explode in close proximity, he ''refuses'' to stay down and keeps getting back up again and again.

* MadeofIron: Officer Joseph Reynolds, one of the policemen involved in the Watertown shootout. Between getting his face cut up by glass shards when the bullets start flying and then knocked around by pipe bombs when they explode in close proximity, he ''refuses'' to stay down and gets right back up so he can return time and time again.

* MadeofIron: Officer Joseph Reynolds, one of the policemen involved in the Watertown shootout. Between getting his face cut up by glass shards when the bullets start flying and then knocked around by pipe bombs when they explode in close proximity, he ''refuses'' to stay down and gets right back up so he can return fire each and every time.

* MadeofIron: Officer Joseph Reynolds, one of the policemen involved in the Watertown shootout. Between getting his face cut up by glass shards when the bullets start flying and then is knocked around by pipe bombs when they explode in close proximity, he ''refuses'' to stay down and gets back up so he can return fire each and every time.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Even though a good deal of the film is centered about Wahlberg's fictional beat cop, the emotional but logical debates among various higher ups play such a role that this might as well be called ''Reasonable Authority Figure: TheMovie''.

* FriendlyFire: The truck Tommy uses to go after Dzhokhar after the Watertown shooting gets shot at by other officers because they only heard on the radio that [[SuspectIsHatless the suspect was getting away in a black truck]].

* PrecisionFStrike: After Dun Meng tells Tommy that his kidnappers were the Marathon bombers and how the police can track the GPS in his car, Tommy praises him for his actions and tells him he's a brave guy. Dun Meng ignores this and just tells him to "Get those motherfuckers".

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Dun Meng was held hostage by the Tsarnev brothers for roughly 90 minutes. The movie makes it seem very brief, even though he tells Mark Wahlberg's character, "They drove me around for like an hour."

* DevelopingDoomedCharacters: A real-life aversion. The film chooses to not even show the victims who died in the bombings out of respect, instead choosing to focus on developing true survivors.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Dun Meng was held hostage by the Tsarnev brothers for roughly 90 minutes. The movie makes it seem very brief.

* OutOfCharacterAlert: Subverted. When a friend of Dun Meng's calls him, one of the brothers warns him, "If you say one word in Chinese, I'll will kill you right now." His friend is confused as to why he's speaking in English, but not enough to realize that something's wrong.

* BigBrotherBully: Tamerlan frequently criticizes Dzokhar and orders him around. The only time we see him offering him encouragement is during the shootout when he urged him to escape to go to New York to set more bombs.

* PrecisionFStrike: Former hostage Dun Meng: "Get those motherfuckers".

** After their hostage escapes and one brother screams to the other that they have to get out of there, the brother who is in the store starts to run, but turns back to drop the junk food he was going to buy. These two have committed terrorism, murder, and kidnapping... but apparently draw the line at theft.

* BoomHeadshot: More like ''"headshots"''. Tamerlan shoots Officer Sean Collier multiple times in the head.
** What makes it even more gruesome is that the first shot doesn't kill him, as the bullet goes through his left cheekbone and out the other.

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Up close, the poster is a collection of shoelaces, but pull back and it's a shredded American flag.
** It also serves as a rather gruesome metaphor for the leg injuries sustained by the victims.

* DuellingMovies: With ''Film/{{Stronger}}'', which covers the experiences of bombing victim Jeff Bauman. They were filmed simultaneously.
** Also a proposed third movie called ''Boston Strong'' which was supposed to star Creator/CaseyAffleck but was merged into the project.

* {{Irony}}: For all of their attempts to evade and fight back against the police, the brothers wind up being their worst enemy in the most literal sense possible: the older, more fanatical bomber is [[http://www.newsweek.com/boston-police-say-bomber-ran-over-his-brother-and-dragged-him-314141 run over and even ''dragged'']] by his younger, panicky accomplice. Additionally counts as KarmicDeath.

* DoubleMeaningTitle: Refers to the Massachusetts state holiday when the Boston Marathon is always held, which also commemorates the anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord which kicked off TheAmericanRevolution and therefore is another fight against repression by Massachusetts residents.

** Special Agent in Charge Richard [=DesLauriers=] of the {{FBI}}'s Boston field office.

* InterserviceRivalry: Shades of this pop up initially between the {{FBI}} and Boston Police, but it quickly disappears over the course of the manhunt given the gravity of the situation (to the point of making this an InvertedTrope).

* ShownTheirWork: The actual homes of Sean Collier and Jeff Pugliese were used as filming locations.

* AwakeningTheSleepingGiant: The sheer viciousness of the manhunt for the Tsarnaevs in complete contradiction to Massachusetts' reputation for liberalism, with a population normally against the death penalty more than willing to make an exception for the Tsarnaevs, to the point where 2,500 different officers from over 110 different police agencies participated in the search for Dzhokhar on April 19.

* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The movie's epilogue depicts the life of nearly all the participants featured, even the surviving terrorist.