History Film / TheGentlemen

--> '''Michael: After you've tended to that indiscretion, you can then deal with the next consequence of your shortsightedness. As stated, I am not emotional about the money. But I am emotional about the fact that someone laid their hands on my wife. MY WIFE!!! No amount of money on God's green earth can pay for that transgression, [[spoiler: Matthew]]. No, for that...I want a pound of flesh.

--> [[spoiler:'''Matthew:''']] Business is business, Michael. It's nothing personal.//
--> '''Michael:''' And while I am not emotional about the money, there is a price indebted to me for the blood I've gotten on my hands restoring order to the untidiness you've created...and that price, according to you---400 minus 130---is 270 million dollars, and I'm keeping the business...while you are getting in the freezer, and you will make that transaction if you want to get out of the freezer. It is 25 below zero in there, so I assume you'll last about...an hour. That said, I wouldn't fuck about, as frostbite is very expensive on the fingers and toes, so I would type as quickly as possible while you have the use of them.//
--> [[spoiler: '''Matthew:''']] Uh---//
--> '''Michael: After you've tended to that indiscretion, you can then deal with the next consequence of your shortsightedness. As stated, I am not emotional about the money. But I am emotional about the fact that someone laid their hands on my wife. MY WIFE!!! No amount of money on God's green earth can pay for that transgression, [[spoiler: Matthew]]. No, for that...I want a pound of flesh.//
--> [[spoiler: ''"Matthew:''']] A pound of flesh? //

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* HateSink: [[RuthlessForeignGangsters Dry Eye]] is an enforcer in [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs the Chinese mob]]. Introduced receiving [[HumanTraffickers humans to traffic]] for Lord George, Dry Eye gives a veiled threat to the seller when he does not have the money to pay him. The crime syndicate Dry Eye works for distributes heroin, which leads to the fatal overdosing of the teenager Laura Pressfield. Dry Eye helps Matthew Berger to try to undermine Mickey Pearson's own cannabis business for a lower price, but threatens him when he decides he wants it only for himself instead. Dry Eye then [[TheStarscream has Lord George killed]] when he confronts him about his betrayal and then later threatens and [[AttemptedRape attempts to rape Mickey's wife Rosalind]] when she fights back. Despite mob violence from others as well, Dry Eye is the coldest and most uncaring by comparison.

** The Toddlers get the bright idea to rob a random, well-hidden drug lab they only just learned the location of, with no knowledge of the owner or danger involved. They don't even go in ''armed.'' [[spoiler Their MMA skills downplay that last one, but still, bringing (well-trained and dangerous) fists against what could be armed guards wasn't the brightest move.]] That alone would be bad enough... but then they [[spoiler:record themselves whupping the asses of Mickey's [[{{Mook}} Mooks]], ''make a rap music video of it'', complete with dramatic character introductions (some of which use their real names!), and then '''upload the music video to social media.''' They at least had the common sense to keep their masks on, but this brazen act of stupid boasting is what leads Coach to offer unconditional service to Ray and Mickey as a way of making amends]].

* CountryMatters: Used 26 times by multiple characters, in very colourful ways.

Raymond (Hunnam) is a wealthy suburbanite living a life of quiet luxury. He also happens to be TheConsigliere to American expat-turned-drug lord Mickey Pearson ([=McConaughey=]), whose highly profitable marijuana empire comes under threat when word comes out he's looking to leave the business. Ray has been working to watch Mickey's back and ensure his retirement comes without incident — but that all changes when a sleazy private detective named Fletcher (Grant) suddenly shows up at his house one night with an elaborate tale to spin, and [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse an offer he can't refuse...]]

* BestialityIsDepraved: [[spoiler:How the Toddlers blackmail Fletcher's would-be contact.]]

** The seemingly-unimportant task of Ray recovering the [[ImpoverishedPatrician patrician's]] missing drug-addict daughter [[spoiler: results in the AccidentalDeath of a seemingly-random Russian crackhead, which gives Fletcher his ''backup'' backup plan — to leak the events to the crackhead's father, TheDon of the Russian mob, to get Mickey and Ray out of the picture. This would have led to their deaths, if not for the actions of the Toddlers and Coach, respectively. And to make it all worse, [[SuddenDownerEnding Laura dies of a drug overdose shortly thereafter,]] [[AllForNothing rendering the entire task to return her to her parents a sad waste of time and lives.]]]]
** Matthew also uses a direct dominoes analogy when pointing out all the damage the Toddlers raid could cause to Mickey's business and its profitability. [[spoiler: Mickey counters by pointing out that he knocked over that first domino.]]
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler: Downplayed with Dry Eye: He kills and overtakes Lord George, taking his place as head of the Triads in the area, but he himself is still a patsy for another ringleader.]]

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Mickey and Matthew are both happily married, and the Russians are motivated by the death of [[spoiler: their boss's son]].

** PlayedForLaughs with a certain [[spoiler: blackmail video]], where both Coach and Raymond are comically disgusted by what the Toddlers did, to the point of slight amazement.

* {{Fauxshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Fletcher approaching Raymond instead of Mickey himself (combined with the opening scene) are likely meant to indicate that Mickey is dead and Raymond [[DragonAscendant took over]]. This could not be further from the truth.]]

** Matthew, the aforementioned Highest Bidder, wants to buy out Mickey's empire [[spoiler: after indirectly sabotaging it, thus lowering the "market price" and buying it out cheap. He does this by "leaking" the location of the sole drug lab he toured with Mickey's blessing to a rival gangster, leading to a raid (by a third party, but he couldn't have predicted that), giving him grounds to lowball Mickey on the price.]]

** Finally, Fletcher [[spoiler: wants to blackmail Mickey and Raymond for an obscene amount of money, or else he'll make the combined GambitPileup of ''every party'' public knowledge. He has a backup plan; turn in Mickey to the Russian mob for one of his associate's AccidentalMurder of [[TheDon a powerful Russian oligarch's]] son, leading to their almost-certain-assassinations. He loses his blackmail money... but he has a rough draft of a movie script based on the movie's own events ready to go, and hopes to profit off that, instead]].

* {{Greed}}: Fletcher's first, second, and last vice is how greedy he is. As a paparazzi he takes prime commission for any material he might dig out and once realising what he's dealing with, he casually demands 20 million. At the same time, he [[spoiler: sells information about Aslan's killer to the boy's father]], essentially trying to extort people that he sets up for [[spoiler:being killed mere minutes after the extortion is done]] by a third party. ''Then'' he goes as far as [[spoiler:proposing [[RefugeInAudacity the whole story as a]] ''[[RefugeInAudacity movie script]]'' to a Miramax executive]].

* GroinAttack: Mickey responds to Dry Eye's lowball offer for his empire by blowing his balls off with a handgun, then finishing him with a BoomHeadshot. [[spoiler: This turns out to be an invention of the UnreliableNarrator Fletcher, who was just embellishing for dramatic effect.]]

* TheHeavy: [[spoiler: Despite appearing to be a simple (and fair) buyer for Mickey's marijuana empire, Matthew's subsequent scheme to devalue the empire and buy it out cheap ends up setting up a massive chain of events that causes essentially ALL of the other schemes, and the many deaths that result, to occur.]]

* ItsPersonal: Mickey tells [[spoiler: Matthew]] that the damages he's having him pay for the undermining of his empire aren't personal, as "it's money, and [he doesn't] get emotional over money..." but what ''is'' personal is the [[spoiler: AttemptedRape of his wife (by Dry Eye) as an indirect consequence of Matthew's actions. That one Mickey is ''very'' emotional about, and [[AnArmAndALeg no amount of money will settle that debt]]]].

** The look on Dry Eye's face when he hears Rosalind utter the words [[spoiler: "Hello, babe", and he knows that Mickey has just arrived and discovered him about to rape his wife]].
** [[spoiler: Matthew]] has an ''epic'' one after his grand scheme blows up in his face, and what he expected to be a total victory turns into a worst-case scenario in a matter of minutes. Arguably counts as a VillainousBreakdown.
* OneLastJob: Coach insists his help is "one time only" and once he's made amends, he's out of there. [[spoiler: Despite this, he ends up saving Ray's life from Russian hitmen near the end of the film, after stating they were already square.]]

* OutGambitted: Since it's ultimately [[spoiler: Mickey and Ray]] that comes out on top, everyone else has to have their plans fail for one reason or another:

** [[spoiler: Big Dave is quickly taken out of the picture by Raymond ordering the Toddlers to drug him and film him committing Beastiality with a pig to make him go away.]]
** [[spoiler: Lord George's efforts to assert his authority and make Dry Eye back off of Mickey ends with him dead at Dry Eye's command, thanks to a BodyguardBetrayal.]]

** Finally, [[spoiler: Fletcher loses his first insurance policy thanks to InVinoVeritas allowing Ray to track down and remove all of his evidence cache backups, and the bullet point directly above this one leads to his ''second'' insurance policy, siccing TheMob on Mickey and Ray, failing, as well. He runs for his life, and seemingly gets away, opting to pen the script of the whole ordeal as a movie and profit off that. Then he realizes that the driver of his cab is NotMyDriver...]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: Inverted, with poor communication-saving Mickey's life when [[spoiler: the Toddlers kill the hitmen who’d just abducted him. They were looking to clear Coach’s debt to Mickey, but it is unclear if they meant to do it by killing Mickey himself or repay it by killing the associates of the man who’d tried to kill him in the restaurant. Either way, they did not know that Coach was just talking with Raymond about having already cleared his debt with the work that they’d done so far]].
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Given the [[spoiler: caliber of the gun]] used to inflict those, somewhat plausible.

* ProperlyParanoid: Ray, who virulently hates dealing with junkies and chavs, [[spoiler: brings along a submachinegun hidden under his coat to the council estate that saves him from a gang of teen chavs planning to rob him.]]

* ReactionShot: The video of [[spoiler: Big Dave having sex with a pig]] is obviously never shown, but we've got his own terrified reaction upon watching it, and later, [[TheStoic Raymond]] is somewhere between shocked and amused by it, commenting with Coach how this is something that's impossible to "[[BrainBleach unwatch once you've seen it]]".

** [[spoiler: Mickey being surprised by the Russians in the car is a direct {{homage}} to the ending of ''Film/TheLongGoodFriday'', right down to the eyes in the rear mirror.]]

** In a twist of fate, Coach and the Toddlers end up being this to [[spoiler: Fletcher himself. After his ''first'' insurance plan fails (after Ray tracks down all of his stashed copies of his evidence), his ''backup'' backup plan, selling Ray and his crew out to the mob for the AccidentalMurder of a Russian oligarch's son, fails entirely because Coach saves Ray in an act of altruism, and the Toddlers gun down Mickey's assassins (in what is implied to be an attempted hit on Mickey himself). Thus, despite all his preparation, Fletcher is left as meat on the plate due to pure coincidence.]]

** The Toddlers get the bright idea to rob a random, well-hidden drug lab they only just learned the location of, with no knowledge of the owner or danger involved. They don't even go in ''armed.'' [[spoiler: Their MMA skills downplay that last one, but still, bringing (well-trained and dangerous) fists against what could be armed guards wasn't the brightest move.]] That alone would be bad enough... but then they [[spoiler: record themselves whupping the asses of Mickey's [[{{Mook}} Mooks]], ''make a rap music video of it'', complete with dramatic character introductions (some of which use their real names!), and then '''upload the music video to social media.''' They at least had the common sense to keep their masks on, but this brazen act of stupid boasting is what leads Coach to offer unconditional service to Ray and Mickey as a way of making amends]].
** Aslan somehow thought it was a good idea to talk back to someone who is quite evidently ''a seasoned LondonGangster'' [[spoiler: and attack one of his massive mooks with a hammer]]. The latter [[spoiler:gets him almost immediately killed]].

** Dry Eye doesn't make the smartest decisions throughout the movie, but his crowning achievement [[spoiler: that leads to his death]] is [[spoiler:''trying to rape Mickey's wife'']]. For no particular reason other than being a cunt.

* UnreliableNarrator: Fletcher, to a minor extent. He does tell the story as it is, for the most part, but he's not as omniscient as he'd like to think, and occasionally makes wrong guesses about how events went down (or deliberately spices them up for story-telling purposes), and occasionally deliberately delays a reveal [[spoiler: such as Dry Eye and Matthew's alliance]] by moving on to something else.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: Fletcher's final fate after being surprised by Ray in his taxi is never revealed. Given that their last interaction involved Fletcher admitting he sold Ray and Mickey out to the mob to save his own hide, something that they both only survived due to outside intervention, followed by Fletcher fleeing for his life after barely escaping from a metal container he's been locked in... and that Fletcher is now ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice trying to pen a movie script of the film's events]]'', his future isn't looking too bright.]]
** The last we see of [[spoiler: Matthew is him being locked in a shipping crate with one of Mickey's cronies, with a choice: both wire an obscene amount of money to Mickey (for the damages to Mickey's empire that Matthew's schemes caused), AND [[AnArmAndALeg cut off "a pound of flesh"]], (as payback for Matthew's underling Dry Eye causing Mickey's wife's NearRapeExperience), or else freeze to death in the below-freezing temperatures of the container. We never see the outcome.]]

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: [[spoiler: Big Dave gets kidnapped by Coach and the Toddlers, drugged, and wakes up in the back of their van naked under a blanket, in close proximity to a pig. What he sees on the video they've recorded horrifies him about as much as it does everyone else.]]

* Eagleland: The only American representative in the almost entirely British cast is expatriate main character Mickey Pearson (played by Creator/MatthewMcConaughey)

Eagleland: The only American representative in the almost entirely British cast is expatriate main character Mickey Pearson (played by Creator/MatthewMcconaughy)
* EnemyEatsYourLunch: Ray arrives home to find Fletcher waiting for him, and casually drinking his 150 year old scotch. Later during their very strange interaction, Fletcher asks Ray to cook a steak for him.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Mickey and Matthew are both happily married, and the Russians are motivated by the death of [[spoiler:their boss's son]].

** PlayedForLaughs with a certain [[spoiler:blackmail video]], where both Coach and Raymond are comically disgusted by what the Toddlers did, to the point of slight amazement.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Coach is, well, a boxing coach, and is only referred to as such in dialog. And in the closing credits.

* {{Fauxshadowing}}: [[spoiler:Fletcher approaching Raymond instead of Mickey himself (combined with the opening scene) are likely meant to indicate that Mickey is dead and Raymond [[DragonAscendant took over]]. This could not be further from the truth.]]

** In the opening credits, you've got a stylised shot of [[spoiler:the Toddlers performing a drive-by]]. The ending is far less surprising if you remember that detail.

** The seemingly-unimportant task of Ray recovering the [[ImpoverishedPatrician patrician's]] missing drug-addict daughter [[spoiler:results in the AccidentalDeath of a seemingly-random Russian crackhead, which gives Fletcher his ''backup'' backup plan — to leak the events to the crackhead's father, TheDon of the Russian mob, to get Mickey and Ray out of the picture. This would have led to their deaths, if not for the actions of the Toddlers and Coach, respectively. And to make it all worse, [[SuddenDownerEnding Laura dies of a drug overdose shortly thereafter,]] [[AllForNothing rendering the entire task to return her to her parents a sad waste of time and lives.]]]]
** Matthew also uses a direct dominoes analogy when pointing out all the damage the Toddlers raid could cause to Mickey's business and its profitability. [[spoiler:Mickey counters by pointing out that he knocked over that first domino.]]
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler:Downplayed with Dry Eye: He kills and overtakes Lord George, taking his place as head of the Triads in the area, but he himself is still a patsy for another ringleader.]]
* DepravedHomosexual: PlayedForLaughs with Fletcher, whose come-ons are mostly done to piss off Raymond rather than any real interest.

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Coach has the most clear one. He's introduced at a carry-out restaurant scolding a group of knife-wielding young ruffians and then beating them up. When they learn who he is, they all react in fear and run away (though not until they express almost excitement that it was Coach who beat them.)

* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Coach is, well, a boxing coach, and is only refered as such in dialog. And in the closing credits.

** The local gang of MMA-fighting Chavs is called "the Toddlers". They're a hell of lot tougher than you'd expect from the name.

** Big Dave wants to destroy Mickey for snubbing him at the party and humiliating him in front of the privilged people and attempts to sink his reputation by hiring Fletcher.

** Finally, Fletcher [[spoiler:wants to blackmail Mickey and Raymond for an obscene amount of money, or else he'll make the combined GambitPileup of ''every party'' public knowledge. He has a backup plan; turn in Mickey to the Russian mob for one of his associate's AccidentalMurder of [[TheDon a powerful Russian oligarch's]] son, leading to their almost-certain-assassinations. He loses his blackmail money... but he has a rough draft of a movie script based on the movie's own events ready to go, and hopes to profit off that, instead]].

* GratuitousRape: [[spoiler:Dry Eye's attempted rape of Rosalind has no particular build-up, and mostly serves to heigten the dramatic tension between him and Mickey (and afterwards, Mickey and Matthew), even though Dry Eye kidnapping Rosalind as planned would be reason enough for Mickey to put a bullet in his head. What makes it especially stupid on Dry Eye's part is that he wastes time doing the deed in Rosalind's office when he should be escorting her to a secure location from which he can safely negotiate with Mickey later. As a result, Mickey has a window of opportunity to come to the rescue.]]
* {{Greed}}: Fletcher's first, second, and last vice is how greedy he is. As a paparazzi he takes prime commission for any material he might dig out and once realising what he's dealing with, he casually demands 20 million. At the same time, he [[spoiler:sells information about Aslan's killer to the boy's father]], essentially trying to extort people that he sets up for [[spoiler:being killed mere minutes after the extortion is done]] by a third party. ''Then'' he goes as far as [[spoiler:proposing [[RefugeInAudacity the whole story as a]] ''[[RefugeInAudacity movie script]]'' to a Miramax executive]].

* GroinAttack: Mickey responds to Dry Eye's lowball offer for his empire by blowing his balls off with a handgun, then finishing him with a BoomHeadshot. [[spoiler:This turns out to be an invention of the UnreliableNarrator Fletcher, who was just embellishing for dramatic effect.]]

* TheHeavy: [[spoiler:Despite appearing to be a simple (and fair) buyer for Mickey's marijuana empire, Matthew's subsequent scheme to devalue the empire and buy it out cheap ends up setting up a massive chain of events that causes essentially ALL of the other schemes, and the many deaths that result, to occur.]]

* ItsPersonal: Mickey tells [[spoiler:Matthew]] that the damages he's having him pay for the undermining of his empire isn't personal, as "it's money, and [he doesn't] get emotional over money..." but what ''is'' personal is the [[spoiler:AttemptedRape of his wife (by Dry Eye) as an indirect consequence of Matthew's actions. That one Mickey is ''very'' emotional about, and [[AnArmAndALeg no amount of money will settle that debt]]]].

** Fletcher is doing it continously, as the FramingDevice is him telling the story of all the events, first to Raymond, then to [[spoiler:a Miramax executive]], as if pitching a script for a film.

* LittleUselessGun: Matthew gives Mickey a [[BlingBlingBang gold-plated derringer]] as a peace offering, of a caliber so small the bullets look like tic tacs. Mickey gives it to his wife Ros. When Ros eventually pulls it on Dry Eye when he invades her office, he is incredulous that it is even a gun. [[spoiler:Ros demonstrates how effective it can be at point blank range by killing his two bodyguards with single shot through each of their foreheads. Unfortunately for her, it only has two shots]].

* NeverBringAKnifeToAGunfight: Ray chases one of the kids on the estate, trying to get his phone. The kid runs to a gang to back him up, and which point Ray offers to buy the phone for a wad of cash. One of the gang pulls out a machete and says that they'll just take the cash ''and'' keep the phone. With a look of resignation, Ray pulls a submachine gun from under his coat and fires it in the air. The gang flees, while the kid throws Ray the phone and then bolts as well.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Mentioned by name. Raymond's attempts to reclaim a patrician's wayward daughter leads to them gaining the attention of Fletcher, a chase with some of the chav witnesses, the death of an addict, [[spoiler:and an assault by the Russian mob, including the father of that dead addict]].
* NothingPersonal: [[spoiler:Matthew smugly reassures Mickey that this is the case when he tries to buy him out with a lowball offer after encouraging Dry Eye to wreck his business. Mickey doesn't disagree, but loudly informs him that it ''became'' personal when Dry Eye attempted to rape his wife, and that only a literal pound of flesh can satisfy that debt.]]

** [[spoiler:At the very end of the film, Fletcher gets in a black cab to go to the airport only to find that Ray is sitting in the drivers seat. And the back doors won't open...]]

** The look on Dry Eye's face when he hears Rosalind utter the words [[spoiler:"Hello, babe", and he knows that Mickey has just arrived and discovered him about to rape his wife]].
** [[spoiler:Matthew]] has an ''epic'' one after his grand scheme blows up in his face, and what he expected to be a total victory turns into a worst-case scenario in a matter of minutes. Arguably counts as a VillainousBreakdown.
* OneLastJob: Coach insists his help is "one time only" and once he's made amends, he's out of there. [[spoiler:Despite this, he ends up saving Ray's life from Russian hitmen near the end of the film, after stating they were already square.]]

* OutGambitted: Since it's ultimately [[spoiler:Mickey and Ray]] that comes out on top, everyone else has to have their plans fail for one reason or another:

** [[spoiler:Big Dave is quickly taken out of the picture by Raymond ordering the Toddlers to drug him and film him commiting beastiality with a pig to make him go away.]]
** [[spoiler:Lord George's efforts to assert his authority and make Dry Eye back off of Mickey ends with him dead at Dry Eye's command, thanks to a BodyguardBetrayal.]]

** Finally, [[spoiler:Fletcher loses his first insurance policy thanks to InVinoVeritas allowing Ray to track down and remove all of his evidence cache backups, and the bullet point directly above this one leads to his ''second'' insurance policy, siccing TheMob on Mickey and Ray, failing, as well. He runs for his life, and seemingly gets away, opting to pen the script of the whole ordeal as a movie and profit off that. Then he realizes that the driver of his cab is NotMyDriver...]]
* OutsideContextProblem: [[spoiler:Aslan's father is a Russian mobster that didn't take lightly his first-born fell off a window]]. His enforcers are a ''serious'' disruption to the grand scheme of things and [[spoiler:almost manage to kill Mickey ''twice'']] without anyone even realising who they are and why they are after everyone.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Inverted, with poor communication saving Mickey's life when [[spoiler:the Toddlers kill the hitmen who’d just abducted him. They were looking to clear Coach’s debt to Mickey, but it is unclear if they meant to do it by killing Mickey himself or repay it by killing the associates of the man who’d tried to kill him in the restaurant. Either way, they did not know that Coach was just talking with Raymond about having already cleared his debt with the work that they’d done so far]].
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Given the [[spoiler:caliber of the gun]] used to inflict those, somewhat plausible.

* ProperlyParanoid: Ray, who virulently hates dealing with junkies and chavs, [[spoiler:brings along a submachinegun hidden under his coat to the council estate that saves him from a gang of teen chavs planning to rob him.]]

* ReactionShot: The video of [[spoiler:Big Dave having sex with a pig]] is obviously never shown, but we've got his own terrified reaction upon watching it and later, [[TheStoic Raymond]] is somewhere between shocked and amused by it, commenting with Coach how this is something that's impossible to "[[BrainBleach unwatch once you've seen it]]".

* SequelHook: InUniverse, Fletcher suggests this as the reason to leave Mickey's fate ambiguous after the Russian hitmen holding him at gunpoint [[spoiler:are gunned down by the Toddlers,]] in the script version of the movie's events he's panning to a film executive. [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope Averted]] by the movie itself; Mickey is not only shown to have survived the hit and come out on top, but Fletcher himself is implicitly killed in the ending, as well. Mickey does have a few loose ends on his plate; the Russian oligarch who controlled the hitmen is still alive, Matthew may be coming back to take his revenge and Dry Eye was taking orders from a shadowy figure in a limousine at Lord George's funeral, who may retaliate for his death. But for Mickey, that's just another day in paradise.]]

** [[spoiler:Mickey being surprised by the Russians in the car is a direct {{homage}} to the ending of ''Film/TheLongGoodFriday'', right down to the eyes in the rear mirror.]]
* ShoutOutToShakespeare: [[spoiler:Michael demanding a pound of flesh from Matthew, who like Shylock is Jewish,]] is a clear reference to ''Theatre/TheMerchantOfVenice''.

** In a twist of fate, Coach and the Toddlers end up being this to [[spoiler:Fletcher himself. After his ''first'' insurance plan fails (after Ray tracks down all of his stashed copies of his evidence), his ''backup'' backup plan, selling Ray and his crew out to the mob for the AccidentalMurder of a Russian oligarch's son, fails entirely because Coach saves Ray in an act of altruism, and the Toddlers gun down Mickey's assassins (in what is implied to be an attempted hit on Mickey himself). Thus, despite all his preparation, Fletcher is left as meat on the plate due to pure coincidence.]]

* TeensAreMonsters: The teen chavs who attempt to stab Coach at the snackbar [[DisproportionateRetribution merely for telling them to wait in line]], and the chav gang Ray deals with to obtain a phone containing condemning evidence.

** The Toddlers get the bright idea to rob a random, well-hidden drug lab they only just learned the location of, with no knowledge of the owner or danger involved. They don't even go in ''armed.'' [[spoiler:Their MMA skills downplay that last one, but still, bringing (well-trained and dangerous) fists against what could be armed guards wasn't the brightest move.]] That alone would be bad enough... but then they [[spoiler:record themselves whupping the asses of Mickey's [[{{Mook}} Mooks]], ''make a rap music video of it'', complete with dramatic character introductions (some of which use their real names!), and then '''upload the music video to social media.''' They at least had the common sense to keep their masks on, but this brazen act of stupid boasting is what leads Coach to offer unconditional service to Ray and Mickey as a way of making amends]].
** Aslan somehow thought it was a good idea to talk back to someone who is quite evidently ''a seasoned LondonGangster'' [[spoiler:and attack one of his massive mooks with a hammer]]. The latter [[spoiler:gets him almost immediately killed]].
** Dry Eye's second bodyguard, who seconds after watching [[spoiler:Ros put a bullet right between the eyes of his colleague]], decides it's a good idea to attack her. [[spoiler:She immediately kills him in the exact same manner.]]
** Dry Eye doesn't make the smartest decisions throughout the movie, but his crowning achievement [[spoiler:that leads to his death]] is [[spoiler:''trying to rape Mickey's wife'']]. For no particular reason other than being a cunt.

* UnreliableNarrator: Fletcher, to a minor extent. He does tell the story as it is, for the most part, but he's not as omniscient as he'd like to think, and occasionally makes wrong guesses about how events went down (or deliberately spices them up for story-telling purposes), and occasionally deliberately delays a reveal [[spoiler:such as Dry Eye and Matthew's alliance]] by moving on to something else.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:Fletcher's final fate after being surprised by Ray in his taxi is never revealed. Given that their last interaction involved Fletcher admitting he sold Ray and Mickey out to the mob to save his own hide, something that they both only survived due to outside intervention, followed by Fletcher fleeing for his life after barely escaping from a metal container he's been locked in... and that Fletcher is now ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice trying to pen a movie script of the film's events]]'', his future isn't looking too bright.]]
** The last we see of [[spoiler:Matthew is him being locked in a shipping crate with one of Mickey's cronies, with a choice: both wire an obscene amount of money to Mickey (for the damages to Mickey's empire that Matthew's schemes caused), AND [[AnArmAndALeg cut off "a pound of flesh"]], (as payback for Matthew's underling Dry Eye causing Mickey's wife's NearRapeExperience), or else freeze to death in the below-freezing temperatures of the container. We never see the outcome.]]

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: [[spoiler:Big Dave gets kidnapped by Coach and the Toddlers, drugged, and wakes up in the back of their van naked under a blanket, in close proximity to a pig. What he sees on the video they've recorded horrifies him about as much as it does everyone else.]]

* GratuitousRape: [[spoiler: Dry Eye's attempted rape of Rosalind has no particular build-up, and mostly serves to heigten the dramatic tension between him and Mickey (and afterwards, Mickey and Matthew), even though Dry Eye kidnapping Rosalind as planned would be reason enough for Mickey to put a bullet in his head. What makes it especially stupid on Dry Eye's part is that he wastes time doing the deed in Rosalind's office when he should be escorting her to a secure location from which he can safely negotiate with Mickey later. As a result, Mickey has a window of opportunity to come to the rescue.]]

* GreedyJew: Matthew Berger. [[spoiler:So greedy, in fact, that he tips off the location of one of Mickey's weed farms to Dry Eye just so Dry Eye can raid it and Berger will then be justified in demanding a much lower offer for the whole enterprise. Ironically, should he just pick the first offer, he would easily make a pretty penny on it without a hitch. Instead, he ends up 270 million dollars and ''a literal pound of his flesh'' short, gaining nothing.]]

* SequelHook: InUniverse, Fletcher suggests this as the reason to leave Mickey's fate ambiguous after the Russian hitmen holding him at gunpoint [[spoiler:are gunned down by the Toddlers,]] in the script version of the movie's events he's panning to a film executive. [[spoiler:[[AvertedTrope Averted]] by the movie itself; Mickey is not only shown to have survived the hit and come out on top, but Fletcher himself is implicitly killed in the ending, as well. Mickey does have a few loose ends on his plate; the Russian oligarch who controlled the hitmen is still alive, and Dry Eye was taking orders from a shadowy figure in a limousine at Lord George's funeral, who may retaliate for his death. But for Mickey, that's just another day in paradise.]]

** In a twist of fate, Coach and the Toddlers end up being this to [[spoiler:Fletcher himself. After his ''first'' insurance plan fails (after Ray tracks down all of his stashed copies of his evidence), his ''backup'' backup plan, selling them out to the mob for the AccidentalMurder of a Russian oligarch's son, fails entirely because Coach saves Ray in an act of altruism, and the Toddlers gun down Mickey's assassins (in what is implied to be an attempted hit on Mickey himself). Thus, despite all his preparation, Fletcher is left as meat on the plate due to pure coincidence.]]
* SubvertedCatchphrase: Meta example. The line "There’s only one rule in this jungle! When the lion is hungry, he eats" is featured very prominently in the trailers and various promotional material. The only time it actually appears in the film is in an IndulgentFantasySegue by an UnreliableNarrator.

''The Gentlemen'' is a crime comedy film directed by Creator/GuyRitchie starring Creator/MatthewMcConaughey, Creator/CharlieHunnam, Michelle Dockery, Creator/HenryGolding, Creator/EddieMarsan, Creator/ColinFarrell and Creator/HughGrant.

* AppealToForce: [[BoringButPractical Ray tries to simply ''buy'' a cellphone with critical evidence off its owner.]] [[BullyingADragon The owner opts to try to mug Ray with a machete instead.]] So, [[BiggerStick Ray wearily pulls out a submachine gun...]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Coach has the most clear one. He's introduced at a carry-out restaurant scolding a group of knife-wielding young ruffians and then beating them up. When they learn who he is, they all react in fear and run away (though not until they express almost excitement that it was Cosch who beat them.)

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Coach has the most clear one. He's introduced at a carry-out restaurant scolding a group of knife-wielding young ruffians and then beating them up. When they learn who he is, they all react in fear and run away.

* FluffyTheTerrible: The local gang of MMA-fighting Chavs is called "the Toddlers". They're a hell of lot tougher than you'd expect from the name.

* GratuitousRape: [[spoiler: Dry Eye's attempted rape of Rosalind has no particular build-up, and mostly serves to heigten the dramatic tension between him and Mickey (and afterwards, Mickey and Matthew), even though Dry Eye kidnapping Rosalind as planned would be reason enough for Mickey to put a bullet in his head. What makes it especially stupid on Dry Eye's part is that he wastes time doing the deed in Rosalind's office when he should be escorting her to a secure location from which he can safely neogtiate with Mickey later. As a result, Mickey has a window of opportunity to come to the rescue.]]

* GratuitousRape: [[spoiler: Dry Eye's attempted rape of Rosalind has no particular build-up, and mostly serves to heigten the dramatic tension him and Mickey (and afterwards, Mickey and Matthew), even though Dry Eye kidnapping Rosalind as planned would be reason enough for Mickey to put a bullet in his head. What makes it especially stupid on Dry Eye's part is that he wastes time doing the deed in Rosalind's office when he should be escorting her to a secure location from which he can safely neogtiate with Mickey later. As a result, Mickey has a window of opportunity to come to the rescue.]]

** In a twist of fate, Coach and the Toddlers end up being this to [[spoiler:Fletcher himself. After his ''first'' insurance plan fails (after Ray tracks down all of his stashed copies of his evidence), his ''backup'' backup plan, selling them out to the mob for the AccidentalMurder of a Russian oligarch's son, fails entirely because Coach saves Ray in an act of altruism, and The Toddlers gun down Mickey's assassins (in what is implied to be an attempted hit on Mickey himself). Thus, despite all his preparation, Fletcher is left as meat on the plate due to pure coincidence.]]

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Mickey has Lord George's tea poisoned, then leaves him with the antidote: the point having been to demonstrate that he could get to Lord George anywhere.

** The Toddlers get the bright idea to rob a random, well-hidden drug lab they only just learned the location of, with no knowledge of the owner or danger involved. They don't even go in ''armed.'' [[spoiler:Their MMA skills downplay that last one, but still, bringing (well-trained and dangerous) fists against what could be armed guards wasn't the brightest move.]] That alone would be bad enough...but then they [[spoiler:record themselves whupping the asses of Mickey's [[{{Mook}} Mooks]], ''make a rap music video of it'', complete with dramatic character introductions (some of which use their real names!), and then '''upload the music video to social media.''' They at least had the common sense to keep their masks on, but this brazen act of stupid boasting is what leads Coach to offer unconditional service to Ray and Mickey as a way of making amends]].

* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler:Fletcher's final fate after being surprised by Ray in his taxi is never revealed. Given that their last interaction involved Fletcher admitting he sold Ray and Mickey out to the mob to save his own hide, something that they both only survived due to outside intervention, followed by Fletcher fleeing for his life after barely escaping from a metal container he's been locked in...and that Fletcher is now ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice trying to pen a movie script of the film's events]]'', his future isn't looking too bright.]]

* FramingDevice: the start of the film involves Fletcher discussing his blackmail with Raymond, and the long-winded explanation thereof.

* GracefulLoser: The morning after some of Mickey's farmers are beaten up by The Toddlers, one of them notes with a respectful tone "whoever trained them knew what he was doing. Just saying".
* {{Greed}}: Fletcher's first, second, and last vice is how greedy he is. As a paparazzi he takes prime commission for any material he might dig out and once realising what he's dealing with, he casually demands 20 millions. At the same time, he [[spoiler:sells information about Aslan's killer to the boy's father]], essentially trying to extort people that he sets up for [[spoiler:being killed mere minutes after the extortion is done]] by a third party. ''Then'' he goes as far as [[spoiler:proposing [[RefugeInAudacity the whole story as a]] ''[[RefugeInAudacity movie script]]'' to a Miramax executive]].

* ItsPersonal: Mickey tells [[spoiler:Matthew]] that the damages he's having him pay for the undermining of his empire isn't personal, as "it's money, and [he doesn't] get emotional over money..." but what ''is'' personal is the [[spoiler:AttemptedRape of his wife (by Dry Eye) as an indirect consequence of Matthew's actions. That one Mickey is ''very'' emotional about, and [[AnArmAndALeg no amount of money will settle ''that'' debt]]]].
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Big Dave's bodyguard makes an attempt to take a stand against [[spoiler:The Toddlers]], but quickly realized how outclassed he is and backs off.

* MamaDidntRaiseNoCriminal: A variant with Coach, who insists that The Toddlers are good lads in a bad situation, even as they deliberately embroil themselves in crime and he almost literally has to beat it into them to aim for better things.

* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Mentioned by name. Raymond's attempts to reclaim a patrician's wayward daughter leads to them gaining the attention of Fletcher, a chase with some of the chav witnesses, the death of one of an addict, [[spoiler:and an assault by the Russian mob, including the father of that dead addict]].

* PoorCommunicationKills: Inverted, with poor communication saving Mickey's life when [[spoiler:The Toddlers kill the hitmen who’d just abducted him. They were looking to clear Coach’s debt to Mickey, but it is unclear if they meant to do it by killing Mickey himself or repay it by killing the associates of the man who’d tried to kill him in the restaurant. Either way, they did not know that Coach was just talking with Raymond about having already cleared his debt with the work that they’d done so far]].

* AmbitionIsEvil: Dry Eye would be just in the middle of the general scale of evilness when it comes to all the characters… if not for his desire to be the top dog and stopping at ''nothing'' to achieve his goal.

* AppealToForce: [[BoringButPractical Ray tries to simply ''buy'' a cellphone with critical evidence off its owner.]] [[BullyingADragon The owner opts to try to mug Ray with a machete instead.]] So, [[BiggerStick Ray wearily pulls out a submachine gun…]]

* BaitAndSwitchGunshot: [[spoiler:A rather lengthy one. The film opens with Mickey sitting in his pub when a hitman appears behind him. There is a shot and the viewer sees Mickey's table and his drink splattered with blood. Much later, it is revealed that Ray had entered behind the hitman and shot him as he drew on Mickey: the blood on the table being the hitman's.]]
* BestialityIsDepraved: [[spoiler:How The Toddlers blackmail Fletcher's would-be contact.]]

* BlackmailBackfire: Eventually attempted. [[spoiler:It ends up becoming a subverted type-two, Raymond using Fletcher's story to locate the true ManBehindTheMan and make sure Fletcher is OutGambitted… but Fletcher [[XanatosSpeedChess has a backup plan]] for his backup plan. However, this doesn't save him in the end, making it a DoubleSubversion.]]

** The Toddlers break into one of Mickey's weed farms...It doesn't end well [[spoiler:for Mickey's farmers, who very much thought [[PlayingWithATrope they were the dragons in this situation]] [[BewareTheSillyOnes until The Toddlers break out the mixed martial arts and wipe the floor with them.]]]]

* TheConsigliere: Raymond's position as this to Mickey is lampshaded by Fletcher, who actually refers to him as such.

* TheTheTitle

** Fletcher has a certain greasy charisma to him despite his unpleasant comments and [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse the nature of his visit and story]], such that even Ray, who is the target of his manipulation, can't help but find him slightly endearing — at least enough to accept his request for steak and wine. [[spoiler:Averted as the steak and wine were all part of Ray's plan to turn the tables.]]

* BlackmailBackfire: Eventually attempted. [[spoiler:It ends up becoming a subverted type-two, Raymond using Fletcher's story to locate the true ManBehindTheMan and make sure Fletcher is OutGambitted...but Fletcher [[XanatosSpeedChess has a backup plan]] for his backup plan. However, this doesn't save him in the end, making it a DoubleSubversion.]]

** The Toddlers break into one of Mickey's weed farms...It doesn't end well [[spoiler: for Mickey's farmers, who very much thought [[PlayingWithATrope they were the dragons in this situation]] [[BewareTheSillyOnes until The Toddlers break out the mixed martial arts and wipe the floor with them.]] ]]
** Later a DefiedTrope by [[spoiler: Coach,]] who recognizes that this is a smaller part of a larger organisation, and offers to make amends with Mickey to prevent the inevitable out-of-scale retaliation.

** Fletcher himself, arguably; he's just a lone PrivateDetective with no army, no money, and no real support network (that we know of) trying to blackmail ''one of the most powerful drug kingpins in the UK.'' Somewhat averted, as Fletcher knows this and has multiple safety nets in place. [[spoiler: Once they're all gone by the end of the movie, the last one by pure, stupid luck, Fletcher is [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere fully aware that he's hosed.]]]]
* CallBack: Fletcher refers to Ray as 'Raymundo' several times throughout the film. [[spoiler: When Ray surprises Fletcher in the cab at the end, he greets Fletcher as 'Fletchermundo.']]
* CantStopTheSignal: Fletcher is GenreSavvy enough to plan ahead and mention his "Insurance" to Raymond's face. [[spoiler: Eventually Defied, as Raymond hunts down and destroys the other copies and has the editor Fletcher was going to talk to "dealt with"]].

** [[spoiler: A literal example: a certain '[[ImplausibleDeniability paperweight.]]']]
** [[spoiler: The death of the Russian addict midway through the film sets up the climax.]]
** [[spoiler: Paying close attention to Fletcher's absurd demands, as they explain how badly Raymond screws him over.]]

* DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Oh yeah. [[spoiler: Notably, it's a rare modern example that [[KarmaHoudini doesn't end with Mickey's death,]] while still not making light of the downsides of life as a gangster.]]

** The seemingly-unimportant task of Ray recovering the [[ImpoverishedPatrician patrician's]] missing drug-addict daughter [[spoiler: results in the AccidentalDeath of a seemingly-random Russian crackhead, which gives Fletcher his ''backup'' backup plan - to leak the events to the crackhead's father, TheDon of the Russian mob, to get Mickey and Ray out of the picture. This would have led to their deaths, if not for the actions of the Toddlers and Coach, respectively. And to make it all worse, [[SuddenDownerEnding Laura dies of a drug overdose shortly thereafter,]] [[AllForNothing rendering the entire task to return her to her parents a sad waste of time and lives.]]]]
** Matthew also uses a direct dominoes analogy when pointing out all the damage the Toddlers raid could cause to Mickey's business and its profitability. [[spoiler: Mickey counters by pointing out that he knocked over that first domino]].
* DragonAscendant: [[spoiler: Downplayed with Dry Eye: He kills and overtakes Lord George, taking his place as head of the Triads in the area, but he himself is still a patsy for another ringleader.]]
* DepravedHomosexual: PlayedForLaughs with Fletcher, whose come-ons are mostly done to piss off Raymond than any real interest.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Mickey and Matthew are both happily married, and the Russians are motivated by the death of [[spoiler: their boss's son]].

** PlayedForLaughs with a certain [[spoiler: blackmail video]], where both Coach and Raymond are comically disgusted by what the Toddlers did, to the point of slight amazement.

* EvilIsPetty: While, compared to some of the people involved Big Dave is practically a saint, he is out to destroy Mickey just because Mickey refuses to shake his hand at a party in front of a lot of Lords (due to Big Dave humiliating a gay friend of his with some nasty headlines). Even Raymond finds this a little hard to believe.

* {{Fauxshadowing}}: [[spoiler: Fletcher approaching Raymond instead of Mickey himself (combined with the opening scene) are likely meant to indicate that Mickey is dead and Raymond [[DragonAscendant took over]]. This could not be further from the truth]].

* FluffyTheTerrible: The local gang of MMA-fighting Chavs is called "the Toddlers. They're a hell of lot tougher than you'd expect from the name.

** In the opening credits, you've got a stylised shot of [[spoiler: the Toddlers performing a drive-by]]. The ending is far less surprising if you remember that detail.

* FourEyesZeroSoul: Downplayed (and subverted in Raymond’s case, despite his grim, stoic demeanor), but Fletcher and Matthew are both bespectacled, smug men with criminal habits [[spoiler: who are eventually revealed to be even more amoral than they seem on the surface]].

** Lord George [[spoiler: has no stake in Mickey's affairs, but is dragged into it by Dry Eye acting behind his back. He's forced to take action to make Dry Eye back off, before his actions cause a MobWar.]]
** Dry Eye, by comparison, [[spoiler: wants at first to buy out Mickey, but when that fails, he starts taking more direct, aggressive action, all-too-eager to start an open war with Mickey to take his wealth and his territory.]]
** The Toddlers [[spoiler: just want to leave their mark and impress Coach, though they have a ''very'' shortsighted way of doing so. It's implied it's not the first time they've done unlawful actions, but they stepped on the toes of a ''very'' powerful man, and they look for their own (equally-shortsighted) ways of dealing with it.]]
** Coach for his part [[spoiler: wants no part of any of the events, and wants to make amends to Mickey for his Toddlers' actions. He ends up pledging his service to Mickey until the debt his Toddlers' invoked is paid.]]
** Finally, Fletcher [[spoiler: wants to blackmail Mickey and Raymond for an obscene amount of money, or else he'll make the combined GambitPileup of ''every party'' public knowledge. He has a backup plan; turn in Mickey to the Russian mob for one of his associate's AccidentalMurder of [[TheDon a powerful Russian oligarch's]] son, leading to their almost-certain-assassinations. He loses his blackmail money...but he has a rough draft of a movie script based on the movie's own events ready to go, and hopes to profit off that, instead.]]

* {{Greed}}: Fletcher's first, second and last vice is how greedy he is. As a paparazzi he takes prime commission for any material he might dig out and once realising what he's dealing with, he casually demands 20 millions. In the same time he [[spoiler: sells information about Aslan's killer to the boy's father]], essentially trying to extort people that he sets up for [[spoiler: being killed mere minutes after the extortion is done]] by a third party. ''Then'' he goes as far as [[spoiler: proposing [[RefugeInAudacity the whole story as a]] ''[[RefugeInAudacity movie script]]'' to a Miramax executive]].
* GreedyJew: Matthew Berger. [[spoiler: So greedy, in fact, that he tips off the location of one of Mickey's weed farms to Dry Eye just so Dry Eye can raid it and Berger will then be justified in demanding a much lower offer for the whole enterprise. Ironically, should he just pick the first offer, he would easily make a pretty penny on it without a hitch. Instead, he ends up 270 million dollars and ''a literal pound of his flesh'' short, gaining nothing]].
* GroinAttack: Mickey responds to Dry Eye's lowball offer for his empire by blowing his balls off with a handgun, then finishing him with a BoomHeadshot. [[spoiler: This turns out to be an invention of the UnreliableNarrator Fletcher, who was just embellishing for dramatic effect]].

* TheHeavy: [[spoiler: Despite appearing to be a simple (and fair) buyer for Mickey's marijuana empire, Matthew's subsequent scheme to devalue the empire and buy it out cheap ends up setting up a massive chain of events that causes essentially ALL of the other schemes, and the many deaths that result, to occur.]]

* HowWeGotHere: The film stars with Mickey sitting down for a drink and a boiled egg in the pub, [[spoiler:before he gets shot in the head. Except it turns out it was a BaitAndSwitchGunshot, thanks to Raymond.]] We then cut to the FramingDevice.

* IndulgentFantasySegue: A variant where it's done by proxy; Fletcher imagining an elaborate beating conducted by Mickey [[spoiler: to Dry Eye for his attempts to buy him out]], and is immediately corrected by Raymond, who would know the truth as he was there.
* InVinoVeritas: [[spoiler: Downplayed. Letting Fletcher drink his expensive whiskey was part of Ray's plan, since the alcohol would loosen his lips and make him less suspicious, allowing Ray to learn what he needed about his insurance policies. But more importantly, it would force Fletcher to go to the bathroom eventually, allowing to slip a tracker into his boot]].

* ItsPersonal: Mickey tells [[spoiler: Matthew]] that the damages he's having him pay for the undermining of his empire isn't personal, as "it's money, and [he doesn't] get emotional over money..." but what ''is'' personal is the [[spoiler: AttemptedRape of his wife (by Dry Eye) as an indirect consequence of Matthew's actions. That one Mickey is ''very'' emotional about, and [[AnArmAndALeg no amount of money will settle ''that'' debt.]]]]
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Big Dave’s bodyguard makes an attempt to take a stand against [[spoiler: The Toddlers]] but quickly realized how outclassed he is and backs off.

** Fletcher is doing it continously, as the FramingDevice is him telling the story of all the events, first to Raymond, then to [[spoiler: Miramax executive]], as if pitching a script for a film.
** When Raymond and Coach are discussing the blackmail tape they've got with [[spoiler: drugged Big Dave having sex with a pig]], they name-drop NightmareFuel and how this can't be unwatched once seen.

* LastDisrespects: After first telling him that he is going to piss on his grave, [[spoiler:Dry Eye shoots Lord George dead and then pisses on his corpse.]]

* LittleUselessGun: Matthew gives Mickey a [[BlingBlingBang gold-plated derringer]] as a peace offering, of a caliber so small the bullets look like tic tacs. Mickey gives it to his wife Ros. When Ros eventually pulls it on Dry Eye when he invades her office, he is incredulous that it is even a gun. [[spoiler:Ros demonstrates how effective it can be at point blank range by killing his two bodyguards with single shot through each of their foreheads. Unfortunately for her, it only has two shots.]]

* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler: Matthew's]] second punishment at the end is in retaliation for the assault on Mickey's wife, something that (while the instigator of the conflict) [[spoiler: Matthew]] had no direct involvement with or way to predict.

** However, it is later revealed to be not the fault of the lip-reading or translation, but Matthew's ''horrible'' Cantonese, making it twice as funny - someone did read his lips properly and translated what he said, word by word.

** Also deconstructed. Sure, Mickey cares about the nobles whose homes he looks after - but this started as purely PragmaticVillainy - his loyalty to them came later. In addition this attitude leads to a lot of trouble down the line.

* NightmareFetishist: Part of what makes Fletcher so creepy, he mentions he might even like being subjected to ColdBloodedTorture, hell, [[ADateWithRosiePalms he might even get off to it]].
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Mentioned by name. Raymond's attempts to reclaim a patrician's wayward daughter leads to them gaining the attention of Fletcher, a chase with some of the chav witnesses, the death of one of an addict, [[spoiler: and an assault by the Russian mob, including the father of that dead addict.]]
* NothingPersonal: [[spoiler: Matthew smugly reassures Mickey that this is the case when he tries to buy him out with a lowball offer after encouraging Dry Eye to wreck his business. Mickey doesn't disagree, but loudly informs him that it ''became'' personal when Dry Eye attempted to rape his wife, and that only a literal pound of flesh can satisfy that debt.]]

** Coach upon getting a tip who exactly his boys robbed. His reaction is to instantly [[spoiler: force them to pack everything up and personally go with a plea of ''unconditional servitude until the debt is paid'']] just to save their skins.

** [[spoiler: Matthew]] has an ''epic'' one after his grand scheme blows up in his face, and what he expected to be a total victory turns into a worst-case scenario in a matter of minutes. Arguably counts as a VillainousBreakdown.
* OneLastJob: Coach insists his help is "one time only" and once he's made amends, he's out of there. [[spoiler: Despite this, he ends up saving Ray's life from Russian hitmen near the end of the film, after stating they were already square.]]
* OneSteveLimit: There’s both Big Dave, Fletcher's boss, and Mickey's driver Dave.

* OutGambitted: Since it's ultimately [[spoiler: Mickey and Ray]] that comes out on top, everyone else has to have their plans fail for one reason or another:
** [[spoiler: Matthew's scheme to sabotage Mickey's business to lowball him on the cost fails thanks to Fletcher ratting him out as part of his blackmail scheme. As if that weren't bad enough, Matthew's chosen patsy Dry Eye's AttemptedRape of Mickey's wife ends up making the consequences of the scheme's failure ''far worse'' than they would have otherwise been.]]
** [[spoiler: Lord George's efforts to assert his authority and make Dry Eye back off of Mickey ends with him dead at Dry Eye's command, thanks to a BodyguardBetrayal.]]
** [[spoiler: Dry Eye draws Mickey's [[ItsPersonal very personal]] wrath by going after his wife Rosalind, all the way up to attempting to rape her; he earns three bullets in the skull for his trouble.]]
** Coach and the Toddlers [[spoiler: peacefully resolve their beef with Mickey, with Coach doing dirty work for Mickey to repay his debt, and cemented when they each end up saving Ray and Mickey's lives, respectively, at the end of the film.]]
** Finally, [[spoiler: Fletcher loses his first insurance policy thanks to InVinoVeritas allowing Ray to track down and remove all of his evidence cache backups, and the bullet point directly above this one leads to his ''second'' insurance policy, siccing TheMob on Mickey and Ray, failing, as well. He runs for his life, and seemingly gets away, opting to pen the script of the whole ordeal as a movie and profit off that. Then he realizes that the driver of his cab is NotMyDriver...]]
* OutsideContextProblem: [[spoiler: Aslan's father is a Russian mobster that didn't take lightly his first-born fell off a window]]. His enforcers are a ''serious'' disruption to the grand scheme of things and [[spoiler: almost manage to kill Mickey ''twice'']] without anyone even realising who they are and why they are after everyone.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Inverted, with poor communication saving Mickey's life when [[spoiler: The Toddlers kill the hitmen who’d just abducted him. They were looking to clear Coach’s debt to Mickey, but it is unclear if they meant to do it by killing Mickey himself or repay it by killing the associates of the man who’d tried to kill him in the restaurant. Either way, they did not know that Coach was just talking with Raymond about having already cleared his debt with the work that they’d done so far]].
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: Given the [[spoiler: caliber of the gun]] used to inflict those, somewhat plausible.

* ReactionShot: The video of [[spoiler: Big Dave having sex with a pig]] is obviously never shown, but we've got his own terrified reaction upon watching it and later, [[TheStoic Raymond]] is somewhere between shocked and amused by it, commenting with Coach how this is something that's impossible to "unwatch once you've seen it".

* {{Retirony}}: Mickey's life heats up only when he starts working to get out of the game. [[spoiler: Justified in that the man he's trying to sell to is deliberately antagonizing his empire in order to drive down his prices.]]

* SequelHook: InUniverse, Fletcher suggests this as the reason to leave Mickey's fate ambiguous after the Russian hitmen holding him at gunpoint [[spoiler: are gunned down by the Toddlers,]] in the script version of the movie's events he's panning to a film executive. [[spoiler: [[AvertedTrope Averted]] by the movie itself; Mickey is not only shown to have survived the hit and come out on top, but Fletcher himself is implicitly killed in the ending, as well. Mickey does have a few loose ends on his plate; the Russian oligarch who controlled the hitmen is still alive, and Dry Eye was taking orders from a shadowy figure in a limousine at Lord George's funeral, who may retaliate for his death. But for Mickey, that's just another day in paradise.]]

** [[spoiler:Mickey being surprised by the Russians in the car is a direct {{homage}} to the ending of ''Film/TheLongGoodFriday'', right down to the eyes in the rear mirror]].

** Fletcher who keeps flirting with an unappreciative Ray.

* SmugSnake: Matthew is full of condescension towards Mickey as he constantly tries to point out reasons to cut down on how much he should pay Mickey despite how good of a deal he’s getting. [[spoiler: TheReveal only emphasizes this, as does the implication that Mickey was onto him from the start]].

** Fletcher himself ends up being this to [[spoiler: Matthew, as Fletcher's blackmail ended up blowing the whistle on Matthew's schemes to undermine Mickey's empire, ensuring its failure (Mickey won't sell if he knows the buyer is screwing him on the price).]]
** In a twist of fate, Coach and the Toddlers end up being this to [[spoiler: Fletcher himself. After his ''first'' insurance plan fails (after Ray tracks down all of his stashed copies of his evidence), his ''backup'' backup plan, selling them out to the mob for the AccidentalMurder of a Russian oligarch's son, fails entirely because Coach saves Ray in an act of altruism, and The Toddlers gun down Mickey's assassins (in what is implied to be an attempted hit on Mickey himself.) Thus, despite all his preparation, Fletcher is left as meat on the plate due to pure coincidence.]]

** The Toddlers get the bright idea to rob a random, well-hidden drug lab they only just learned the location of, with no knowledge of the owner or danger involved. They don't even go in ''armed.'' [[spoiler: Their MMA skills downplay that last one, but still, bringing (well-trained and dangerous) fists against what could be armed guards wasn't the brightest move.]] That alone would be bad enough...but then they [[spoiler: record themselves whupping the asses of Mickey's [[{{Mook}} Mooks]], ''make a rap music video of it'', complete with dramatic character introductions (some of which use their real names!), and then '''upload the music video to social media.''' They at least had the common sense to keep their masks on, but this brazen act of stupid boasting is what leads Coach to offer unconditional service to Ray and Mickey as a way of making amends.]]
** Aslan somehow thought it was a good idea to talk back to someone who is quite evidently ''a seasoned LondonGangster'' [[spoiler:and attack one of his massive mooks with a hammer]]. The latter [[spoiler:gets him almost immediately killed.]]
** Dry Eye's second bodyguard, who seconds after watching [[spoiler:Ros put a bullet right between the eyes of his colleague]] decides its a good idea to attack her. [[spoiler:She immediately kills him in the exact same manner.]]
** Dry Eye doesn't make the smartest decisions throughout the movie, but his crowning achievement [[spoiler: that leads to his death]] is [[spoiler: ''trying to rape Mickey's wife'']]. For no particular reason other than being a cunt.
* ToyotaTripwire: The kid running away from Bunny on the estate is on a bike and keeps looking over his shoulder and shouting mocking comments. Until Ray open the door of the Range Rover and slams him off the bike, that is.

* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Dragon Head Lord George and his underboss Dry Eye, forming the antagonists of the movie. [[spoiler: Well, one set of antagonists...]]

* UnreliableNarrator: Fletcher, to a minor extent. He does tell the story as it is, for the most part, but he's not as omniscient as he'd like to think, and occasionally makes wrong guesses about how events went down (or deliberately spices them up for story-telling purposes), and occasionally deliberately delays a reveal [[spoiler: such as Dry Eye and Matthew's alliance]] by moving on to something else.
* TheUnreveal: [[spoiler: Fletcher's final fate after being surprised by Ray in his taxi is never revealed. Given that their last interaction involved Fletcher admitting he sold Ray and Mickey out to the mob to save his own hide, something that they both only survived due to outside intervention, followed by Fletcher fleeing for his life after being barely escaping from a metal container he's been locked in...and that Fletcher is now ''[[CrossesTheLineTwice trying to pen a movie script of the film's events]]'', his future isn't looking too bright.]]
** The last we see of [[spoiler: Matthew is him being locked in a shipping crate with one of Mickey's cronies, with a choice: both wire an obscene amount of money to Mickey (for the damages to Mickey's empire that Matthew's schemes caused), AND [[AnArmAndALeg cut off "a pound of flesh"]], (as payback for Matthew's underling Dry Eye causing Mickey's wife's NearRapeExperience), or else freeze to death in the below-freezing temperatures of the container. We never see the outcome.]]
* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler: Matthew has a silent, but ''[[OhCrap very visible]]'' one once he springs the culmination of his scheme and tries to lowball Mickey on his business, only for Mickey to flip the script and provide evidence that he knows Matthew was responsible...as well as detailing ''exactly'' what he's going to do as a result.]]

* WhatDidIDoLastNight: [[spoiler: Big Dave gets kidnapped by Coach and the Toddlers, drugged, and wakes up in the back of their van naked under a blanket, in close proximity to a pig. What he sees on the video they've recorded horrifies him about as much as it does everyone else.]]
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: At the end [[spoiler: Coach]] saves [[spoiler: Raymond]] from the assassins he notices are coming for him, despite them posing no threat to him, and how he had nothing to gain by saving [[spoiler: Raymond]] and in fact might have been saved some trouble in case [[spoiler: Raymond ever did try to demand more from him]]. That being said, he does wordlessly emphasize that YouOweMe.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: [[spoiler: Being cornered by Dry Eye and his two goons, but only having two bullets, Ros shoots the goons, [[DecapitatedArmy rather than their boss]]]]. Considering they have absolutely nothing to gain on [[spoiler: attacking or kidnapping Rosalind]] once he's gone, the choice of targets is purely for the plot to happen.