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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Cynthia Archer adopts the homeless orphan, Kim, taking the child back home and giving Kim shelter, and then introducing Kim to her adoptive parents in a family reunion lunch. For her efforts, she ends up having her reunion interrupted by Sun Quan, Kim's father and leader of a ruthless mob, who then murders her adoptive parents, kills her, and tries to have her son Nicholas and surrogate daughter Kim executed.
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''Wake of Death'' is a 2004 action film originally directed by Ringo Lam, until Philip Martinez took over directorial duties, starring Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme and Creator/SimonYam on opposing sides.
Ben Archer (Van Damme), an ex-mob enforcer, has decided to settle down after getting married. Ben's wife, Cynthia Archer, is an INS worker who took in a little Chinese girl named Kim, rescued from a human trafficking ship during a police raid, into becoming part of their family; but Kim's biological father Sun Quan (Simon) who leads a ruthless triad gang finds out about Kim's disappearance, and immediately send out his assassins after the Archers.
This is notably the closest Van Damme would get into the HeroicBloodshed genre, ever since ''Film/HardTarget'' 11 years earlier. Expect plenty of shootouts that would make John Woo proud.
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!! Contain Examples of:
* BadassLongcoat: Ben wears a black longcoat in most scenes where he's kicking ass.
* BandOfBrothels: Ben managed to target one of Sun Quan's henchmen, Wang, by tracking him down in a brothel Wang frequents, to capture him alive for interrogation.
* ButNotTooForeign: Ben's wife Cynthia, and also Cynthia's brother Max, both of them whom are white but raised by Chinese-Americans.
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Used in more than one scene, notably the night following the restaurant massacre, after Ben realize he's all the children had left and must take matters in his own hands.
* CoolShades: Worn by Ben and most of Sun Quan's underlings in various shootout scenes.
* DirtyCop: Higgins, Cynthia's colleague in the INS, is actually an informant working for Sun Quan and the triads.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: A few of Sun Quan's mobsters are Caucasian, possibly recruited from the slums or are members of another unrelated allied LA gang.
* FamilyExtermination: Sun Quan orders this on the Archers, killing Cynthia's adoptive parents, brother, personally killing Cynthia for interfering with his trafficking business, and barely succeeding in killing the kids if not for Ben's timely arrival.
* FinishingStomp: Ben executes a triad after subduing him in a motorcycle chase by stomping his face in.
* GroinAttack: Ben's partner, Tony, managed to take down one of Sun Quan's personal guards by stabbing his nuts.
* GunsAkimbo: Ben uses dual guns in the final shootout, expectedly given the film's HeroicBloodshed influences.
* HappilyAdopted: Ben's wife, Cynthia, who is an orphan, a white girl adopted by a Chinese-American family. Kim after being rescued ends up happily becoming a member of the Archer family as well.
* HumanTraffickers: The triad organization led by Sun Quan partakes in trafficking of immigrants, using refugees from rural villages to smuggle their drug supplies.
* InfantImmortality: Played straight with both Kim and Nicholas surviving the film.
* MexicanStandoff: The final showdown between Sun Quan and Ben, with Sun holding Ben's son Nicholas as a hostage. Both fired their guns at each other at the same time, but [[spoiler: only Ben emerged alive]].
* MightyWhitey: Played both ways. On one hand, Van Damme's Ben Archer is waging a one-man war against a Chinese triad to save a little Chinese girl his wife adopted; on the other hand, Ben's wife Cynthia
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Cynthia Archer adopts the homeless orphan, Kim, taking the child back home and giving Kim shelter, and then introducing Kim to her adoptive parents in a family reunion lunch. For her efforts, she ends up having her reunion interrupted by Sun Quan, Kim's father and leader of a ruthless mob, who then murders her adoptive parents, kills her, and tries to have her son Nicholas and surrogate daughter Kim executed.
* OffingTheOffspring: Sun Quan travels all the way from Hong Kong to Los Angeles with the intention of hunting down his escaped daughter, Kim, and silence her before she can reveal his trafficking and drug smuggling activities to the relevant authorities.
* PistolWhipping: The last henchman in the docks finale gets whipped to death by Ben's pistol.
* RailingKill: In the brothel shootout, Ben sends a mook falling to his death after flipping him over a railing.
* SlashedThroat: In the flashback, Sun Quan kills his mistress using this method, while Kim watches silently while hiding behind a shelf.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: They are the main villains of the picture, led by their boss Sun Quan, and are also in charge of a human trafficking and drug smuggling syndicate.
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''Wake of Death'' is a 2004 action film originally directed by Ringo Lam, until Philip Martinez took over directorial duties, starring Creator/JeanClaudeVanDamme and Creator/SimonYam on opposing sides.
Ben Archer (Van Damme), an ex-mob enforcer, has decided to settle down after getting married. Ben's wife, Cynthia Archer, is an INS worker who took in a little Chinese girl named Kim, rescued from a human trafficking ship during a police raid, into becoming part of their family; but Kim's biological father Sun Quan (Simon) who leads a ruthless triad gang finds out about Kim's disappearance, and immediately send out his assassins after the Archers.
This is notably the closest Van Damme would get into the HeroicBloodshed genre, ever since ''Film/HardTarget'' 11 years earlier. Expect plenty of shootouts that would make John Woo proud.
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!! Contain Examples of:
* BadassLongcoat: Ben wears a black longcoat in most scenes where he's kicking ass.
* BandOfBrothels: Ben managed to target one of Sun Quan's henchmen, Wang, by tracking him down in a brothel Wang frequents, to capture him alive for interrogation.
* ButNotTooForeign: Ben's wife Cynthia, and also Cynthia's brother Max, both of them whom are white but raised by Chinese-Americans.
* {{Chiaroscuro}}: Used in more than one scene, notably the night following the restaurant massacre, after Ben realize he's all the children had left and must take matters in his own hands.
* CoolShades: Worn by Ben and most of Sun Quan's underlings in various shootout scenes.
* DirtyCop: Higgins, Cynthia's colleague in the INS, is actually an informant working for Sun Quan and the triads.
* EqualOpportunityEvil: A few of Sun Quan's mobsters are Caucasian, possibly recruited from the slums or are members of another unrelated allied LA gang.
* FamilyExtermination: Sun Quan orders this on the Archers, killing Cynthia's adoptive parents, brother, personally killing Cynthia for interfering with his trafficking business, and barely succeeding in killing the kids if not for Ben's timely arrival.
* FinishingStomp: Ben executes a triad after subduing him in a motorcycle chase by stomping his face in.
* GroinAttack: Ben's partner, Tony, managed to take down one of Sun Quan's personal guards by stabbing his nuts.
* GunsAkimbo: Ben uses dual guns in the final shootout, expectedly given the film's HeroicBloodshed influences.
* HappilyAdopted: Ben's wife, Cynthia, who is an orphan, a white girl adopted by a Chinese-American family. Kim after being rescued ends up happily becoming a member of the Archer family as well.
* HumanTraffickers: The triad organization led by Sun Quan partakes in trafficking of immigrants, using refugees from rural villages to smuggle their drug supplies.
* InfantImmortality: Played straight with both Kim and Nicholas surviving the film.
* MexicanStandoff: The final showdown between Sun Quan and Ben, with Sun holding Ben's son Nicholas as a hostage. Both fired their guns at each other at the same time, but [[spoiler: only Ben emerged alive]].
* MightyWhitey: Played both ways. On one hand, Van Damme's Ben Archer is waging a one-man war against a Chinese triad to save a little Chinese girl his wife adopted; on the other hand, Ben's wife Cynthia
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Cynthia Archer adopts the homeless orphan, Kim, taking the child back home and giving Kim shelter, and then introducing Kim to her adoptive parents in a family reunion lunch. For her efforts, she ends up having her reunion interrupted by Sun Quan, Kim's father and leader of a ruthless mob, who then murders her adoptive parents, kills her, and tries to have her son Nicholas and surrogate daughter Kim executed.
* OffingTheOffspring: Sun Quan travels all the way from Hong Kong to Los Angeles with the intention of hunting down his escaped daughter, Kim, and silence her before she can reveal his trafficking and drug smuggling activities to the relevant authorities.
* PistolWhipping: The last henchman in the docks finale gets whipped to death by Ben's pistol.
* RailingKill: In the brothel shootout, Ben sends a mook falling to his death after flipping him over a railing.
* SlashedThroat: In the flashback, Sun Quan kills his mistress using this method, while Kim watches silently while hiding behind a shelf.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: They are the main villains of the picture, led by their boss Sun Quan, and are also in charge of a human trafficking and drug smuggling syndicate.
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