History Film / ThirtyMinutesOrLess

* ThirtyMinutesOrItsFree: The customers at Vito's Pizza love to abuse this trope. Unfortunately for Nick, customers tend to abuse this policy from calling from places that make such a time-frame nearly impossible. Though he does manage to sucker younger customers into giving him the money anyway.

* BasementDweller: Dwayne still lives in his father's estate watching TV and goofing around instead of doing anything productive, which his father even calls him out on.

* ShaggyDogStory: [[spoiler:The money that all of the characters had been fighting for during the entire length of the film was rendered useless the moment it was taken out of the bank due to a hidden dye bomb. However, nobody figures this out until they actually open the case at the end of the film.]]
** [[spoiler:If taken as canon a deleted scene shows that Nick, Chet and Kate did get away with most of the money and the boys are living in a fancy hotel while Kate takes her position at the Four Seasons.]]

* BasementDweller: Dwayne still lives in his father's estate watching TV and goofing around instead of doing anything productive.
* BitingTheHandHumor: In the form of a gag Chet does about UsefulNotes/{{Netflix}}. Retroactively, since the movie became available on the service more than nine years after its release.

* FireBreathingWeapon: Travis has one of these.

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: With the emphasis on "Unsympathetic"; both protagonists are selfish jerks who commit theft and robbery, and only care about the consequences enough to want to avoid them.

* WorldOfJerkass: Almost everyone is a complete {{Jerkass}} willing to break the law. LoveInterest Kate is the only one with a clear conscience.

* HalfIdenticalTwins: Chet and Kate, which is what makes Nick wanting to sleep with Kate even creepier to Chet.
** It's actually an InformedTrope considering the actors look ''nothing'' alike, they're just both South Asian.

* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: [[spoiler: Dwayne lets Nick drive off with the money in order to make sure Travis is okay after his flamethrower explodes.]]

** Early on, Nick mentions a new laser pointer he bought Chet. During the climax, [[spoiler: Chet uses it to trick Dwayne and Travis into thinking Nick's got a sniper backing him up so that they can escape.]]
** Kate mentions early on that she lives very close to the pizza place Nick works at. [[spoiler: Later, Nick takes advantage of the short distance to sneak off to talk to her while Chet thinks he's in the restaurant.]]

** [[spoiler: While the money ends up being booby-trapped (or at least only part of it if the extended ending is taken into account), Nick and Chet get out alive and Nick confessed his love to Kate.]]
** The post credits scene shows that [[spoiler: Dwayne, Travis, and the Major survived and started their own successful tanning salon business.]]
* EverybodyLives: [[spoiler: Narrowly averted. In the end, the only person who dies is Chongo the assassin.]]

* GoodAllAlong: [[spoiler: After Chongo decides to kill Dwayne, he breaks into his house and runs into The Major. The Major refuses to tell Chongo where his son is, even after being told Chongo was hired by Dwayne to kill him. The Major's pretty much just your basic, fed-up-dad-with-layabout-son type of character, he's just more mean about it because he's a retired Marine.]]

* HypercompetentSidekick: Travis is a bit smarter than Dwayne. While Dwayne can "think like a millionaire", Travis is the one who comes up with the bomb idea, reconnaissance, [[spoiler: and kidnapping Kate]].
* IndyPloy: They have ten hours before the bomb goes off, but that's still a pretty small amount of time Chet and Nick have to come up with a way to rob a bank. [[spoiler: Which they successfully pull off.]]

** [[spoiler: Dwayne and Travis don't get the money, but they survive their injuries, and even manage to open up their tanning salon/prostitution ring.]]

** [[spoiler: If taken as canon a DeletedScene (one that also explains how Dwayne opened the salon) shows that Nick, Chet and Kate did get away with most of the money and the boys are living in a fancy hotel while Kate takes her position at the Four Seasons.]]

* KillItWithFire: [[spoiler: Chongo's demise.]]

* MinionWithAnFInEvil: Travis isn't comfortable with the idea of killing The Major, or of people actually getting hurt in their attempt to get the money. On the other hand, he doesn't hesitate to [[spoiler: kill Chongo, albeit in self-defense]].

* MySisterIsOffLimits: Chet's feelings about Nick dating his sister Kate. [[spoiler: It doesn't stop Nick from confessing his love to her or kissing her towards the end.]]

* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Averted actually. Pre-credits, Travis, who seems to be the only antagonist with anything resembling a conscience was the only one who apparently survived. Post-credits, Dwayne also survived and succesfully started his business with Travis and his dad, finally doing something with his life.]]

** [[spoiler: If taken as canon a deleted scene shows that Nick, Chet and Kate did get away with most of the money and the boys are living in a fancy hotel while Kate takes her position at the Four Seasons.]]

* TheStinger: [[spoiler: Dwayne, Travis and The Major all survived their injuries and started a tanning salon/prostitution ring together. Dwayne also got Juicy.]]

Two [[TheSlacker slackers]] named Dwayne and Travis want to make a hundred-thousand dollars quickly so they can hire an assassin to kill Dwayne's father, the Major, and get his inheritance money. Eventually, they come up with a sensible idea: order a pizza, have it delivered, kidnap the pizza man, strap a bomb to his chest, and force him to rob a bank or the bomb will detonate. The unfortunate delivery man, Nick, teams up with his best friend Chet, whom he recently had a falling out with when he confessed that he had slept with Chet's sister, to get the job done.