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* BlatantLies: Much of the movie’s plot revolves around a group of crooked cops telling increasingly outrageous lies during the investigation of a robbery gone wrong, until finally Andre connects all the dots and determines which cop is exactly involved in the conspiracy based on the lies that he/she told during that investigation.
* BornDetective: Andre's father was also a cop who died in the line of duty when he was a child.
* BornDetective: Andre's father was also a cop who died in the line of duty when he was a child.
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* BlatantLies: Much of the movie’s plot revolves around a group of [[spoiler: crooked cops telling increasingly outrageous lies during the investigation of a robbery gone wrong, until finally Andre connects all the dots and determines which cop is exactly involved in the conspiracy based on the lies that he/she told during that investigation.
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* BornDetective: Andre's father was also a cop who died in the line of duty when he was a child. He claims that becoming a police officer wasn't a choice, but "genetics".
* BornDetective: Andre's father was also a cop who died in the line of duty when he was a child. He claims that becoming a police officer wasn't a choice, but "genetics".
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* CowboyCop: Andre to an extent is this. He goes around protocol to accomplish his mission and doesn’t care who he pisses off to do so. Also, he has a reputation after killing numerous criminals over the years that murdered police officers; said killings were justified as self-defense, but he was no doubt a bit eager to shoot these folks because of what happened to his father. [[spoiler: It's also why he's put on the case. His [[DirtyCop corrupt superior]] expects him to kill the suspects so their own corruption won't be revealed.]]
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* CowboyCop: Andre to an extent is this. He goes around protocol to accomplish his mission and doesn’t care who he pisses off to do so. Also, he has a reputation after killing numerous criminals for being overly aggressive, having shot eight suspects over the years that murdered police officers; said killings were justified as self-defense, but he was no his career. He claims (and we have little reason to doubt a bit eager him) that all of the shootings were justified, but it's clear he doesn't hesitate to shoot these folks because of what happened resort to his father.violence. [[spoiler: It's also why he's put on the case. His [[DirtyCop corrupt superior]] expects him to kill the suspects so their own corruption won't be revealed.]]
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%%* AFatherToHisMen: Captain [=McKenna=].
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%%* AFatherToHisMen: Captain [=McKenna=]. He mentions that he's godfather to several of his officers' children. [[spoiler: It's also how he justifies his corruption, he was sick of seeing his people struggle to make ends meet, and became involved with the drug trade to make sure they could support their families.]]
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** In the opening robbery scene, the cops knock on the restaurant window. [[spoiler:They knock. They don't bang on the door with their fists like cops checking out a crime scene. Mike notices this and tells Dre later. We also don't find out why they were at the restaurant, but the 'burglary/silent alarm' story doesn't work, since they would've been more cautious from the jump, nobody could've called in an alarm, and there probably wouldn't need to be four of them.]]
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** In the opening robbery scene, the cops knock on the restaurant window. [[spoiler:They knock. They don't bang casually rap with their knuckles, rather than banging on the door with their fists like cops checking out a crime scene. Mike notices this this, and tells Dre later.they were knocking "like Jehovah's Witnesses". We also don't find out why they were at the restaurant, but the 'burglary/silent alarm' story doesn't work, since they would've been more cautious from the jump, nobody could've called in an alarm, and there probably wouldn't need to be four of them.]]
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* RevolversAreForAmateurs: When some of his colleagues kill a suspect and plant a gun on him to justify the shooting, Davis reacts with scepticism when he sees that it's a snubnose revolver, noting that such a weapon is only used by cops as a backup weapon.
* StyrofoamRocks: The robbers are explicitly said to be stealing 110 lbs of cocaine. Divided into four tote bags, each bag would weight 27.5 lbs. When Taylor Kitsch's character pulls his bags out of the car, however, they swing easily from the straps in his hands with every tiny motion, revealing that the props are almost weightless.
* StyrofoamRocks: The robbers are explicitly said to be stealing 110 lbs of cocaine. Divided into four tote bags, each bag would weight 27.5 lbs. When Taylor Kitsch's character pulls his bags out of the car, however, they swing easily from the straps in his hands with every tiny motion, revealing that the props are almost weightless.
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* RevolversAreForAmateurs: When some of his colleagues kill a suspect and plant a gun on him to justify the shooting, Davis reacts with scepticism skepticism when he sees that it's a snubnose revolver, noting everyone else involved in the crime were using automatic rifles, and the gun in question is exactly the kind that such a weapon is only used by cops use as a backup weapon.
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* StyrofoamRocks: The robbers are explicitly said to be stealing 110 lbs of cocaine. Divided into four tote bags, each bag would weight 27.5 lbs. When Taylor Kitsch's character pulls his bags out of the car, however, they swing easily from the straps in his hands with every tiny motion, revealing that the props are almost weightless. The same is true when they exchange the drugs for cash (which, it's pointed out, weighs basically the same as the cocaine.
* StyrofoamRocks: The robbers are explicitly said to be stealing 110 lbs of cocaine. Divided into four tote bags, each bag would weight 27.5 lbs. When Taylor Kitsch's character pulls his bags out of the car, however, they swing easily from the straps in his hands with every tiny motion, revealing that the props are almost weightless. The same is true when they exchange the drugs for cash (which, it's pointed out, weighs basically the same as the cocaine.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Captain [=McKenna=].
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* CopKiller: The plot takes off when two robbers shoot and kill several officers who were answering a call about a robbery in progress. [[spoiler: However, it soon becomes evident that there was no call to the police, but rather that those cops were secretly on their way to take over the same narcotics that the robbers wanted to steal.]]
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* CopKiller: The plot takes off when two robbers shoot and kill several officers who were answering a call about a robbery in progress. [[spoiler: However, it soon becomes evident that there was no call to the police, but rather that those cops were secretly on their way to take over the same narcotics that the robbers wanted to steal.]] The detective investigating the murders himself later shoots three dirty cops defending himself from them. He'd also earlier lost his own cop dad to criminals.]]
* CopKillerManhunt: When eight cops are shot by two armed suspects, with seven dead on the scene, it causes the NYPD to go all out in the effort to hunt them down. They convince the mayor to close all of Manhattan's bridges, with the best detective at hunting down cop killers called in (who'd lost his own cop dad to this). One suspect is killed first in a shootout with the cops, and then the next gunned down by a detective. [[spoiler:It turns out this was not to legitimate defense nor revenge, but to cover for police corruption he'd uncovered.]] Both knew they had to leave the city tout suit and would be forever on the run.
* CopKillerManhunt: When eight cops are shot by two armed suspects, with seven dead on the scene, it causes the NYPD to go all out in the effort to hunt them down. They convince the mayor to close all of Manhattan's bridges, with the best detective at hunting down cop killers called in (who'd lost his own cop dad to this). One suspect is killed first in a shootout with the cops, and then the next gunned down by a detective. [[spoiler:It turns out this was not to legitimate defense nor revenge, but to cover for police corruption he'd uncovered.]] Both knew they had to leave the city tout suit and would be forever on the run.
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* ExperiencedProtagonist: Andre is an expert detective with years of experience on the NYPD. He has even developed a reputation as a “killer of cop killers” because he has tracked down and killed several criminals responsible for murdering police officers over his career.
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* ExperiencedProtagonist: Andre is an expert detective with years of experience on the NYPD. He has even developed a reputation as a “killer "killer of cop killers” killers" because he has tracked down and killed several criminals responsible for murdering police officers over his career.career.
%%* AFatherToHisMen: Captain [=McKenna=].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tons of.
** In the opening robbery scene, the cops knock on the restaurant window. [[spoiler:They knock. They don't bang on the door with their fist like cops checking out a crime scene. Mike notices this and tells Dre later. We also don't find out why they were at the restaurant, but the 'burglary/silent alarm' story doesn't work, since they would've been more cautious from the jump, nobody could've called in an alarm, and there probably wouldn't need to be four of them.]]
** In the opening robbery scene, the cops knock on the restaurant window. [[spoiler:They knock. They don't bang on the door with their fist like cops checking out a crime scene. Mike notices this and tells Dre later. We also don't find out why they were at the restaurant, but the 'burglary/silent alarm' story doesn't work, since they would've been more cautious from the jump, nobody could've called in an alarm, and there probably wouldn't need to be four of them.]]
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tons of.
There's tons of it.
** In the opening robbery scene, the cops knock on the restaurant window. [[spoiler:They knock. They don't bang on the door with theirfist fists like cops checking out a crime scene. Mike notices this and tells Dre later. We also don't find out why they were at the restaurant, but the 'burglary/silent alarm' story doesn't work, since they would've been more cautious from the jump, nobody could've called in an alarm, and there probably wouldn't need to be four of them.]]
** In the opening robbery scene, the cops knock on the restaurant window. [[spoiler:They knock. They don't bang on the door with their
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* EyeScream: Adi suffers this when a crooked cop shoots Adi through the peephole to Adi's apartment door.
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* MoeGreeneSpecial: Ray and Michael's fixer, Adi, gets blinded in his right eye when a cop shoots him through a door peephole.
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* MoeGreeneSpecial: Ray and Michael's fixer, Adi, gets blinded in his right eye when a crooked cop shoots him Adi through a door peephole.the peephole to Adi's apartment door.
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* EyeScream: Adi suffers this when a crooked cop shoots Adi through the peephole to Adi's apartment door.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Captain McKenna.
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* AFatherToHisMen: Captain McKenna.[=McKenna=].
* BlatantLies: Much of the movie’s plot revolves around a group of crooked cops telling increasingly outrageous lies during the investigation of a robbery gone wrong, until finally Andre connects all the dots and determines which cop is exactly involved in the conspiracy based on the lies that he/she told during that investigation.
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* CopKiller: The plot takes off when two robbers shoot and kill several officers who were answering a call about a robbery in progress.
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* CopKiller: The plot takes off when two robbers shoot and kill several officers who were answering a call about a robbery in progress. [[spoiler: However, it soon becomes evident that there was no call to the police, but rather that those cops were secretly on their way to take over the same narcotics that the robbers wanted to steal.]]
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* ImprobableAimingSkills: Mostly averted during much of the movie, with all the characters missing most of their shots in firefights and only occasionally getting a lucky (but plausible) hit, but played straight at the very end, when [[spoiler:Andre turns into a sharpshooting OneManArmy]].
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The film also stars Creator/SiennaMiller, Creator/StephanJames, Creator/JKSimmons, and Creator/AlexanderSiddig.
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The film also stars Creator/SiennaMiller, Creator/StephanJames, Creator/TaylorKitsch, Creator/JKSimmons, and Creator/AlexanderSiddig.
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* MoeGreenSpecial: Ray and Michael's fixer, Adi, gets blinded in his right eye when a cop shoots him through a door peephole.
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* MoeGreenSpecial: MoeGreeneSpecial: Ray and Michael's fixer, Adi, gets blinded in his right eye when a cop shoots him through a door peephole.
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* CowboyCop: Andre to an extent is this. He goes around protocol to accomplish his mission and doesn’t care who he pisses off to do so. Also, he has a reputation after killing numerous criminals over the years that murdered police officers; said killings were justified as self-defense, but he was no doubt a bit eager to shoot these folks because of what happened to his father
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* CowboyCop: Andre to an extent is this. He goes around protocol to accomplish his mission and doesn’t care who he pisses off to do so. Also, he has a reputation after killing numerous criminals over the years that murdered police officers; said killings were justified as self-defense, but he was no doubt a bit eager to shoot these folks because of what happened to his fatherfather. [[spoiler: It's also why he's put on the case. His [[DirtyCop corrupt superior]] expects him to kill the suspects so their own corruption won't be revealed.]]
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* MoeGreenSpecial: Ray and Michael's fixer, Adi, gets blinded in his right eye when a cop shoots him through a door peephole.
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* ClosedCircle: Davis invokes this to catch the cop killers, shutting down all the bridges and tunnels connecting Manhattan Island to the rest of New York City.
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The film also stars Creator/SiennaMiller, Stephan James, Creator/JKSimmons, and Creator/AlexanderSiddig.
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* StyrofoamRocks: The robbers are explicitly said to be stealing 110 lbs of cocaine. Divided into four tote bags, each bag would weight 27.5 lbs. When Taylor Kitsch's character pulls his bags out of the car, however, they swing easily from the straps in his hands with every tiny motion, revealing that the props are almost weightless.
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