YMMV / The Whole Nine Yards

• Awesome Music: The film is brilliantly scored from beginning to end.
• Badass Decay: Unfortunately, this happens to Jimmy in the sequel, where he becomes a lot more whiny and angsty and much less inclined to violence. This is even acknowledged in-universe, Jill is having relationship doubts in part because of what retirement has done to him, and when Oz finds him he can't believe "this is how a retired mass-murderer acts."
• Best Known for the Fanservice: The film itself is fantastic but most people only remember the fact that Amanda Peet got topless for one scene.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Used to wonderful effect with how casually the hitmen talk about their victims, especially Jimmy.
    Jimmy: I didn't like him much after that. He took... a really, really long time to die.
  • You can make up your own mind when Jill crossed the line the first time in this scene, but she's undoubtedly crossed it twice by the time she's done.
    Jill: Do me a favor while you're there — go out and get laid! And call me after, or call me before, better yet call me during, I want all the details.
• Magnificent Bastard: Jimmy "the Tulip" Tudeski is a former enforcer for the Gogolak crime family who turned on his boss to get a reduced prison sentence. When he learns that his neighbor Oz has been convinced to go to Chicago to rat him out to Janni Gogolak, Jimmy works with Frankie Figgs to ambush the Gogolaks in his home and gun them all down. Now intending to kill his wife to cash in a $10 million trust, Jimmy is convinced by Oz to fake his own death so he can get the money and go into hiding without hurting her; Jimmy agrees but, knowing she and Oz have fallen in love, leaves them a million as a wedding gift. In the sequel Jimmy concocts a new plan when Lazlo Gogolak gets out of prison, involving Cynthia letting herself be abducted and Jill pretending to betray Jimmy, to get his hands on the code to Lazlo's secret bank account worth $280 million. Charismatic, friendly, pragmatic, and not hesitating to kill people when he must, Jimmy manages to escape both the authorities and the Gogolaks while making off with the latter's money to share with his loved ones.
• Sequelitis: The second film has its moments, usually when Oz gets sandbagged by some absurd situation, but on the whole it's generally considered forgettable by most (though others found it enjoyable in its own right). Surprisingly, some people don't even know about the sequel.

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