Line #15 Film/Headshot


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2	''Headshot'' is a 2016 action movie starring Creator/IkoUwais as a young man who washes ashore with amnesia after suffering a [[TitleDrop head shot.]] Cared for by an attractive doctor, who names him "Ishmael", he finds himself targeted by violent criminals who seem to know who he is.
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4	!!This movie features the following tropes:
5	* AbusiveParents: Lee is described as "The Father From Hell" and not without reason. He adopted Ishmael after abducting him, forcing him and a group of children into a well in sweltering heat to cook for days, and then throwing down a water bottle, causing the children to fight to the death for survival.
6	* AmnesiacHero: Ishmael.
7	* AssassinOutclassin: While Ishmael is in the police station, thugs come to kill him. Although they slaughter everyone else in the station, Ishmael manages to take them all out.
8	* BigBad: Lee, the enigmatic and ruthless leader of the gang hunting Ishmael.
9	* BlofeldPloy: Lee pulls this to one of the survivors of a rival gang after said gangs assassination attempt against him backfires.
10	* BookEnds: In their first and final scenes, Ailin [[ConverseWithTheUnconscious talks to an unconscious]] Ishmael.
11	* CharacterNameAlias: Ailin gives the unidentified person in her care the temporary name Ishmael, after the character in the ''Literature/MobyDick'' novel she's reading. [[spoiler:He takes it as his new name in the end.]]
12	* CombatPragmatist: Ishmael uses everything he can find to fight off his attackers, from guns to knives to a table he's handcuffed to.
13	* ConcealmentEqualsCover: Ishmael survives an exploding grenade by using a wooden table as a shield.
14	* BulletproofHumanShield: Used by Lee in a shootout with a rival gang.
15	* DarkActionGirl: Rika, one of the last people Ishmael faces before fighting the BigBad, is also one of the deadliest.
16	* {{Expy}}: Ishmael is pretty much an Indonesian [[Franchise/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne.]]
17	* EyeScream: One thug gets a bullet casing to the brain in the bus brawl with Ishmael
18	* FemmeFatale: Rika.
19	* GratuitousEnglish: Pretty much all of the villains speak English for some reason.
20	* GroinAttack: Lee implicitly threatens a gang member with this [[ColdBloodedTorture as an impromptu form of lie detection.]]
21	* HiddenWeapons: A knife hidden in a wash bucket is used to kill a guard.
22	* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The thug mentioned below gets impaled through the throat with his own machete.
23	* HospitalHottie: Ailin, the doctor who operates on Ishmael, and befriends him, is very attractive.
24	* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: How [[spoiler: the big bad of the movie]] is defeated. [[TakingYouWithMe He tries to return the favor]].
25	* LineOfSightName: Variant; when he wakes up, Ishmael identifies himself to Ailin with the temporary name she wrote on his bed tag, which she of course already knows is a pseudonym.
26	* MacheteMayhem: In the fight at the police station, the first thug that attacks Ishmael wields a machete.
27	* MadeOfIron:
28	** The main character spends most of the movie with a bullet in his head, and never lets it slow him down.
29	** Downplayed for the two guards and the mook who frees Sunny Pang in the opening, who all die but not before each taking multiple point blank shots to their chests.
30	* MeaningfulName:
31	** Ishmael is found unconscious on the beach, while his ''Moby Dick'' namesake is the sole survivor of his ship's crew. [[spoiler:Like the Biblical Ishmael, he is also banished by his father figure.]][[note]]The second meaning might be lost in Muslim-majority Indonesia, since Ishmael's story in Islamic tradition is quite different.[[/note]]
32	*** Subverted with [[spoiler:his former name Abdi, which means "to serve" and was given by Lee to inspire loyalty, as he eventually defeats Lee in the FinalBattle]].
33	** Besi ("iron") fights with a collapsible iron baton.
34	* NeverForgottenSkill: Just like Jason Bourne, Ishmael retains his combat prowess despite having amnesia.
35	* PrisonRiot: Lee instigates one of these as part of his escape plan.
36	* RedBaron: Lee's nicknames are "The Sea Devil" and "The Father From Hell".
37	* SuicideByCop: [[spoiler:Rika repeatedly shoots her gun at Ishmael's direction while deliberately missing him, which triggers his ingrained instinct and makes him stab her in self-defense.]]
38	* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: After being impaled against a jagged tree branch, Lee attempts to pull Ishmael into it as well. He might have succeeded if it weren't for Ailin coming to the rescue.]]
39	* TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain: Subverted, as getting shot in the head (the eponymous headshot) leaves the main character with total amnesia.
40	* WeUsedToBeFriends: [[spoiler:Besi and Rika were close to Abdi when they were all still in Lee's group. They choose to fight against him to the end.]]
41	* WithMyHandsTied: Ishmael is chained to a table when the first thug attacks him in the station. It ends badly for the thug.
42	* WouldHurtAChild:
43	** Lee is revealed to have [[spoiler: abducted dozens of children who he would force to kill each other so that the survivor could be trained to become fanatic devotees to the gang.]]
44	** One of the gangsters who just shot up a bus is about to commit this trope on a [[InnocentBystander random kid]], [[EvenEvilHasStandards one of the other gangsters actually has to cover his eyes for this.]] Thankfully, we're spared witnessing a child getting [[BoomHeadshot their brains blown out]] when Dr. Ailin offers to help in exchange for the kids life.

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