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* MutilationInterrogation: While trying to force the location of the loot out of Nate, Losada cuts the fingers of Nate's left hand with a machete.
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* {{Fingore}}: While trying to force the location of the loot out of Nate, Losada cuts the fingers of Nate's left hand with a machete.

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* {{Fingore}}: While trying to force the location of the loot out of Nate, Losada cuts the fingers of off Nate's left hand with a machete.
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Four criminals rob an armoured car and get away with $4 million. When confronted by a police roadblock, the stash the stolen cash in the luggage of the Sidwell family who are stopped at a rest stop. Nate Sidwell is just out of prison and is taking his family on a camping trip in an attempt to to regain their trust. The police wave the innocent looking Sidwells through the roadblock. But now the crooks need their cash back and are in hot pursuit, but task proves not to be as easy as they had thought.

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Four criminals rob an armoured car and get away with $4 million. When confronted by a police roadblock, the they stash the stolen cash in the luggage of the Sidwell family who are stopped at a rest stop. Nate Sidwell is just out of prison and is taking his family on a camping trip in an attempt to to regain their trust. The police wave the innocent looking Sidwells through the roadblock. But now the crooks need their cash back and are in hot pursuit, but task proves not to be as easy as they had thought.
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* SirSwearsALot: Shane Sidwell is a rebellious teenager who swears a lot primarily because it aggravates his father Nate. His mother Robyn's comments indicate that this behaviour may only have started since Nate was released from prison.
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* WaterTorture: Marek attempts to extract the location of the [[AMacGuffinFullOfMoney bag of stolen cash]] from Nate by repeatedly showing him face down into the bayou: holding down slightly longer each time.
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* BloodIsQuickerInWater: When the wounded Nate slides off the jetty into the bayou, a pool of oily looking blood forms on the surface of the murky water.

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* BloodIsQuickerInWater: BloodIsSquickerInWater: When the wounded Nate slides off the jetty into the bayou, a pool of oily looking blood forms on the surface of the murky water.

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''Transit'' is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Antonio Negret. Its stars Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/JamesFrain, Creator/DioraBaird, Creator/ElisabethRohm, Creator/HaroldPerrineau and Creator/JakeCherry.

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''Transit'' is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Antonio Negret. Its stars Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/JamesFrain, Creator/DioraBaird, Creator/ElisabethRohm, Creator/HaroldPerrineau Creator/HaroldPerrineau, Creator/RyanDonowho and Creator/JakeCherry.


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* BloodIsQuickerInWater: When the wounded Nate slides off the jetty into the bayou, a pool of oily looking blood forms on the surface of the murky water.
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* OutsideRide: When Arielle steps out of the SUV to investigate the shooting, Robyn immediately attempts to drive off. Arielle leaps on to the back of the car and attempts to smash her way in through the rear window.

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* OutsideRide: When Arielle steps out of the SUV to investigate the shooting, SUV, Robyn immediately attempts to drive off. Arielle leaps on to the back of the car and attempts to smash her way in through the rear window.
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* CarFu: The Sidwells manage to flag down the same patrolman that arrested Nate, but he doesn't believe their wild stories of anyone chasing them. Suddenly, he's run down and killed by the robbers and the family flees again.
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* TheRadioDiesFirst: After fleeing through the swamp, the Sidwells meet a local in a skiff. He agrees to call the sheriff and picks up his radio handset. As he does so, he gets shot and falls off the side of the boat. The Sidwells take the boat to escape, but find that when he when he went overboard, he took the handset with him, rendering the radio useless.
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* OutsideRide: When Arielle steps out of the SUV to investigate the shooting, Robyn immediately attempts to drive off. Arielle leaps on to the back of the car and attempts to smash her way in through the rear window.
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* AttackTheInjury: While interrogating Nate in the swamp, Marek grinds his heel into the bullet wound in Nate's leg. Later, during their fight in the cabin, Marek hits Nate's injured leg with a [[ChainPain length of chain]].
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* ChainPain: During the fight in the cabin, Marek uses a length of chain to [[AttackTheInjury hit Nate's wounded leg]] before trying to strangle him with it.
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* MacheteMayhem: Having been forced to abandon the guns, Losada uses a machete to intimidate Nate and [[{{Fingore}} cut some fibgers off his left hand]].

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* MacheteMayhem: Having been forced to abandon the guns, Losada uses a machete to intimidate Nate and [[{{Fingore}} cut some fibgers fingers off his left hand]].


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* ReusableLighterToss: During a standoff with Marek, Robyn holds a lit Zippo over [[AMacGuffinFullOfMoney the pile of alcohol-soaked cash]] while he is holding a gun on her. When he attempts to call her bluff, she drops the lighter, [[MoneyToBurn setting fire to the money]].
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* ExtremelyShortTimespan: The entire film spans less than 48 hours.
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* InsideMan: One of the guards in the armoured car is in on the ArmedBlag. Once he has secured the cash, Marek [[YouHavOutlivedYourUsefulness calmly shoots him]].

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* InsideMan: One of the guards in the armoured car is in on the ArmedBlag. Once he has secured the cash, Marek [[YouHavOutlivedYourUsefulness [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness calmly shoots him]].
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* InsideMan: One of the guards in the armoured car is in on the ArmedBlag. Once he has secured the cash, Marek [[YouHavOutlivedYourUsefulness calmly shoots him]].
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* ILied: During the ArmedBlag at the start of the film, Marek shoots the driver, causing the InsideMan to object:
-->'''Man:''' Nobody's supposed to die! You said that nobody's supposed to die.\\
'''Marek:''' I lied.\\
''[shoots him]''



* TaeKwonDoor: When breaking into Robyn's motel room, Marek kicks the door into her face.

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* TaeKwonDoor: When breaking into Robyn's motel room, Marek kicks the door into her face.face.
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: After ambushing the armoured car at the start of the film, Marek shoots the driver. When the driver's partner, who is the InsideMan on the ArmedBlag, objects, Marek calmly kills him as well.
-->'''Man:''' Nobody's supposed to die! You said that nobody's supposed to die.\\
'''Marek:''' ILied.\\
''[shoots him]''

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* AMacGuffinFullOfMoney: The plot is driven by the bag containing $4 million the crooks hide in the Sidwells' SUV and then go to great lengths to recover.
* MacheteMayhem: Having been forced to abandon the guns, Losada uses a machete to intimidate Nate and [[{{Fingore}} cut some fibgers off his left hand]].
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* MoneyToBurn: When trapped in the hunter's cabin by the robbers, Robyn lights a bundle of cash and throws it in front of them: yelling that she will set fire to the rest of it if they don't back off.
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''Transit'' is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Antonio Negret. Its stars Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/JamesFrain, Creator/DoiraBaird, Creator/ElisabethRohm, Creator/HaroldPerrineau and Creator/JakeCherry.

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''Transit'' is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Antonio Negret. Its stars Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/JamesFrain, Creator/DoiraBaird, Creator/DioraBaird, Creator/ElisabethRohm, Creator/HaroldPerrineau and Creator/JakeCherry.



* BadassDriver: Evers, the driver for the robbers, who drives at speed the wrong way along a freeway--including PlayingChicken with a semi--to catch up with the Sidwells.

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* BadassDriver: Evers, the driver for the robbers, who drives at speed the wrong way along a freeway--including PlayingChicken [[GameOfChicken playing chicken]] with a semi--to catch up with the Sidwells.

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''Transit'' is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Antonio Negret. Its stars Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/JamesFrain, Creator/DoraBaird, Creator/ElisabethRohm, Creator/HaroldPerrineau and Creator/JakePerry.

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''Transit'' is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Antonio Negret. Its stars Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/JamesFrain, Creator/DoraBaird, Creator/DoiraBaird, Creator/ElisabethRohm, Creator/HaroldPerrineau and Creator/JakePerry.
Creator/JakeCherry.


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* BadassDriver: Evers, the driver for the robbers, who drives at speed the wrong way along a freeway--including PlayingChicken with a semi--to catch up with the Sidwells.
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''Transit'' is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Antonio Negret. Its stars Creator/JimCaviezel, Creator/JamesFrain, Creator/DoraBaird, Creator/ElisabethRohm, Creator/HaroldPerrineau and Creator/JakePerry.

Four criminals rob an armoured car and get away with $4 million. When confronted by a police roadblock, the stash the stolen cash in the luggage of the Sidwell family who are stopped at a rest stop. Nate Sidwell is just out of prison and is taking his family on a camping trip in an attempt to to regain their trust. The police wave the innocent looking Sidwells through the roadblock. But now the crooks need their cash back and are in hot pursuit, but task proves not to be as easy as they had thought.

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* ArmedBlag: The film starts with a gang knocking over an armoured car on a remote country road.
* {{Fingore}}: While trying to force the location of the loot out of Nate, Losada cuts the fingers of Nate's left hand with a machete.
* TaeKwonDoor: When breaking into Robyn's motel room, Marek kicks the door into her face.

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