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A 1998 film about the [[The Yugoslav Wars|Bosnian war]], starring Dennis Quaid as Joshua "Guy" Rose, a [[Semper Fi|U.S. Marine]] turned [[Private Military Contractors|mercenary]] and Nataša Ninković as Vera, the [[
Stationed in Paris on embassy guard duty, Josh witnesses the death of his wife and son by [[Terrorists Without a Cause|Muslim]] [[Suicide Attack|suicide bombers]]. Immediately after the funeral of his wife and son, Joshua [[Revenge Before Reason|storms into the nearest mosque and guns down the worshipers inside]]. His buddy Peter (Stellan Skarsgård) catches up to him just in time to shoot a survivor who was going to shoot Joshua. To avoid being prosecuted for murder, Joshua and Peter run off to join the [[Gauls With Grenades|French Foreign Legion]]. After getting bored with the Foreign Legion, <s>Josh</s> Guy and Pete become mercenaries and end up working for the Serbs in the Bosnian War. During a prisoner exchange, Guy encounters Vera and saves her and her child soon afterward.
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* [[A Nazi
* [[Anyone Can Die]]
* [[Armies Are Evil]]: Played straight with the Balkan factions.
* [[Ate His Gun]]: Vera tries to do this with Goran's gun right after giving birth, but is [[Interrupted Suicide|stopped by Guy]].
* [[Blood
* [[Child
* [[Child Soldiers]]: The little girl who walks up to the guard-post, smiling. Pete offers her some gum. He radios over to Guy, telling him how [[Genre Blindness|he don't give a damn about the Captain's stories]] and how "[[Never Hurt an Innocent|we're not gonna become baby-killers"]]. {{spoiler|[[Death
* [[Church Militant]]: The Muslims are particularly depicted as such.
** Not really. That's how only [[Unreliable Narrator|Goran]] described them. While Mujahideen from the Arab world did come to assist the Bosnian Muslims, the term was used as a slur in this context as Goran, like many others of his contemporaries, were blinded by nationalist propaganda.
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* [[Colonel Kilgore]]: The Croat executioner.
* [[Dangerous Deserter]]: Guy is seen as one after gunning down Goran
* [[Dead Guy
* [[Dead Sidekick]]
* [[Death
* [[Die Laughing]]: Goran laughs at Guy's reprimands and weapon aimed at him. He swings his own gun around, but not fast enough.
* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]]: Not this time. The film does a very good job of portraying just how brutally sickening war is.
* [[Doomed Hometown]]: Vera's
* [[Face Death
* [[Genre Blindness]]: Goran advises Guy to not be so naive about the "truce". Peter refuses to believe the stories about [[Child Soldiers]].
* [[Honor
* [[Infant Immortality]]: Very narrowly subverted, as the baby almost dies several times.
* [[Interrupted Suicide]]: Vera, right after [[Child
* [[Kick the Dog]]: All over the place
* [[Kill'Em All]]: The various massacre scenes
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* [[No One Gets Left Behind]]: The Foreign Legion stressed this point.
** Later, we see Guy snipe several Bosnian troops who venture out to retrieve their fallen comrades.
* [[No
* [[Not So Different]]: Goran brags that he and other Serbs rape captured Bosnian women. Guy points out that the Bosnians do the same to captured Serbian women.
** Goran replies: "[[Our Tropes Are Different|Our women are stronger"]]
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: Or rather, "save the cat"
* [[Plunder]]: Goran chopping a ring off a dying woman's finger
* [[Post
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: subverted
* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: Goran
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