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* ''Film/TheATeam'': Every military action is needlessly dangerous and complex, often relying heavily on the enemy doing some very exact and unlikely actions.

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* ''Film/TheATeam'': Every military action is needlessly dangerous and complex, often relying heavily on the enemy doing some very exact and unlikely actions. Coming up with these crazy plans is explicitly a core competency of Hannibal Smith's. [[spoiler:So when he ''can't'' come up with one, everyone knows things have gotten ''really'' bad.]]
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* ''Film/{{Chaos}}'': While the movie is good, it suffers for being completely made up of hundreds of {{Gambit Roulette}}s in order to advance the plot. 1: The banker pressing the alarm, thus sending in the police. 2: Conners being made the negotiator, thus shutting down the power. 3: Conners shutting down the power, thus giving the virus free game. 4: Conners failing to stop SWAT from entering the bank, thus making the mooks escaping the bank. 5: The mooks not being caught on camera while escaping the bank with the hostages (granted, this one was admitted failed in movie). 6: The female cop's phone going off, thus making the cops entering that building. 7: The fact that the whole idea of letting Conners pretend to be dead was based on the idea that out of 2 guys, 1 body is found, and just because it has Conners badge on it makes the cops take for granted that it's Conners body, while not bothering to look for the MISSING SECOND BODY!)

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* ''Film/{{Chaos}}'': ''[[Film/Chaos2005 Chaos]]'': While the movie is good, it suffers for being completely made up of hundreds of {{Gambit Roulette}}s in order to advance the plot. 1: The banker pressing the alarm, thus sending in the police. 2: Conners being made the negotiator, thus shutting down the power. 3: Conners shutting down the power, thus giving the virus free game. 4: Conners failing to stop SWAT from entering the bank, thus making the mooks escaping the bank. 5: The mooks not being caught on camera while escaping the bank with the hostages (granted, this one was admitted failed in movie). 6: The female cop's phone going off, thus making the cops entering that building. 7: The fact that the whole idea of letting Conners pretend to be dead was based on the idea that out of 2 guys, 1 body is found, and just because it has Conners badge on it makes the cops take for granted that it's Conners body, while not bothering to look for the MISSING SECOND BODY!)
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* ''Film/{{Saltburn}}'': Most of [[spoiler: Oliver's]] plans were realistically thought out and made a decent amount of sense. The final stage of the plan, though, depended on [[spoiler: waiting fifteen years for Sir James to die on his own while hoping that Elspeth made no other social connections during that time and remained emotionally dependent on a boy she met for six months over a decade ago.]] Literally just the mark getting a pet would have ruined nearly two decades of work.
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"Film/P2" received mixed to negative reviews for being a typical obsessive stalker film that mixed in elements of [[TorturePorn torture porn]] and was one of the biggest box office bombs ever that was mostly forgotten about shortly after. It's become more popular among audiences over time due to it's association with Christmas and the two lead actors having become more recognized (''Creator/WesBentley'' was known from American Beauty, but he starred in more films that garnered him in attention, such as ''Film/Interstellar'').
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"Film/P2" received mixed to negative reviews for being a typical obsessive stalker film that mixed in elements of [[TorturePorn torture porn]] and was one of the biggest box office bombs ever that was mostly forgotten about shortly after. It's become more popular among audiences over time due to it's association with Christmas and the two lead actors having become more recognized (''Creator/WesBentley'' was known from American Beauty, but he starred in more films that garnered him in attention, such as ''Film/Interstellar'').
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** One specific example is the "quarterback" hypnosis in the Horsemen's second show, which involved predicting the exact word to come out of Dylan's mouth (though "freeze" is a reasonable thing to expect a cop to shout at a fleeing suspect). Further justified and subverted when you realize [[spoiler:Dylan was the one who planned the stunt in the first place.]]

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** One specific example is the "quarterback" hypnosis in the Horsemen's second show, which involved predicting the exact word to come out of Dylan's mouth (though "freeze" is a reasonable thing to expect a cop to shout at a fleeing suspect). Further justified and subverted when you realize it's revealed [[spoiler:Dylan was the one who planned the stunt in the first place.]]
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* In ''Film/BatmanTheMovie'', Batman employs one of his riskiest {[Batman Gambit}}s ever. When the United Underworld is fleeing in their submarine with the dehydrated members of the United World Security Council, Batman and Robin bombard the submarine with Bat Charges to force it to surface. While successful, there was a still a chance that the sub could've sunk before it could surface. Even riskier is that the vials containing the Security Council wobbled about in the chaos and nearly fell off the counter they were on.

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* In ''Film/BatmanTheMovie'', Batman employs one of his riskiest {[Batman {{Batman Gambit}}s ever. When the United Underworld is fleeing in their submarine with the dehydrated members of the United World Security Council, Batman and Robin bombard the submarine with Bat Charges to force it to surface. While successful, there was a still a chance that the sub could've sunk before it could surface. Even riskier is that the vials containing the Security Council wobbled about in the chaos and nearly fell off the counter they were on.
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* In ''Film/BatmanTheMovie'', Batman employs one of his riskiest {[Batman Gambit}}s ever. When the United Underworld is fleeing in their submarine with the dehydrated members of the United World Security Council, Batman and Robin bombard the submarine with Bat Charges to force it to surface. While successful, there was a still a chance that the sub could've sunk before it could surface. Even riskier is that the vials containing the Security Council wobbled about in the chaos and nearly fell off the counter they were on.

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