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3	''Gunmen'' is a 1993 action B movie starring Creator/ChristopherLambert and Creator/MarioVanPeebles.
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5	400 million dollars are hidden on a boat by Dani Servigo's brother. His brother is killed and Dani is looking for that boat together with a DEA undercover agent Cole Parker. However, the drug boss, Loomis (Creator/PatrickStewart) also sent his man Armor O'Malley (Creator/DenisLeary) to find the boat.
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7	The plot follows that of ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'' and the characters are similar.
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10	!!This film provides examples of:
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12	* AlmostKiss: Dani tries to kiss a sleeping Cole one night.
13	* AnArmAndALeg: Karl's hands were chopped off by Java during his torture according to Armor. Not shown on screen.
14	* AxCrazy: Armor and Maria.
15	* BaldOfEvil: Loomis.
16	* BMovie
17	* BigBad: Loomis for the first half of the movie. Then Armor takes over.
18	* BigNo: [[spoiler:Loomis, when he is thrown to the big hole before he is buried alive.]]
19	* BountyHunter: Cole is said to be one.
20	* BuriedAlive: Loomis orders to bury his wife alive at the beginning of the movie. What is it she did to deserve this is uncertain. Later on he himself is buried alive.
21	* EnemyMine: Cole and Dani working together to find the boat.
22	* EvilCripple: Loomis, the drug dealer and The Big Bad is in a wheelchair.
23	* {{Expy}}: Cole, Armor, Dani, Loomis and Carlos are 90's counterparts of [[Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly Blondie, Angel Eyes, Tuco, Baker and Jackson]], respectively.
24	* {{Fanservice}}: Scene with a prostitute.
25	* ForeignRemake: The film follows the basic plot of ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', with one man knowing the exact location of where a cache of money is stored and the other knowing the name of exactly ''what'' it's stored in.
26	* GreatEscape: Cole breaks Dani out of prison to learn where the boat is.
27	* HaveWeMet: Rance asks this when he sees Dani
28	* HighAltitudeInterrogation: Armor hangs Dani upside-down from a rope underneath a helicopter to get him to talk. For good measure, Armor had the pilot fly low so that Dani would hit the trees underneath.
29	* IWantThemAlive: Loomis needs Dani and Cole alive. Justified because he wants to find out where the boat is.
30	* OneWordTitle
31	* SuperWindowJump: Dani's and Cole's escape.
32	* TalkingToTheDead: Armor talks to Danni's dead brother Karl in a sarcastic way whose body he brought to the banker's house.
33	* TheDragon: Armor to Loomis for the first half of the movie.
34	* TitleDrop: [[spoiler: The name of the boat is the ''Gunmen'']].
35	* TongueTrauma: Not shown on screen but Armour says that Maria cut Karl's tongue off.
36	* TheStarscream: Armor, as with his original counterpart.
37	* WouldntHurtAChild: Armor doesn't kill Guzman's daughter.
38	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Armor kills Guzman, the banker after he gets the information that he needs from him.
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