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Melvin "Mel" Smiley (Wahlberg) is a mild-mannered man and a ruthlessly efficient [[Career Killers|Career Killer]], but his good nature allows his co-workers to take advantage of him. They alternatively ask him of favors, like disposing corpses for them, or claim credit and bonuses for his hits. He still earns good money from his job, but Mel is actually spending most of it in maintaining two seperate residences and live-in partners. The first is Chantel (Rochon), his African-American girlfriend, who is fully aware of his line of work and keeps making financial demands on him. The other is Pam Shulman (Applegate), his Jewish-American fiancée, who is unaware of what he does for living, but still wants him to support both herself and her formerly well-to-do family.
Cisco (Phillips), fellow assassin and [[With Friends Like These...|supposed friend]], on the other hand, is not pleased with earning a few thousand dollars with every hit. He therefore orchestrates a plan to earn himself at least a million from one simple job: abducting college student Keiko Nishi (Chow), the only daughter of wealthy businessman Jiro Nishi (Shimono), for ransom. In desperate need for some cash, Melvin reluctantly joins Cisco in this plan. What they don't know is that Jiro invested much of his fortune in creating a big budget film and promoting it, but the film bombed at the box office, Jiro has just gone bankrupt and is contemplating [[Seppuku]]. Even worse, Keiko happens to be the favorite goddaughter of Paris (Brooks) who just happens to be the local [[The Don|Don]] and the current employer of Melvin and Cisco.
What develops is their attempts to both find the kidnappers (which they can't do), keep people from finding out they're the kidnappers, trying to get the ransom, and keep their lives intact. Throw in some [[Stockholm Syndrome]], a dash of backstabbing, and a number of reveals as Mel's life starts to fall apart, and you've pretty much got the idea.
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* [[Asshole Victim]]: The first guy we actually see Melvin kill is involved in a White Slavery ring. The second is a would-be rapist. He later explains to Keiko that most of his victims were "bad people". The rest were just obnoxious.
* [[Briefcase Full of Money]]: Chantel keeps her money in one of these. When Melvin finds out, he finaly realizes that she never payed those bills. And that she was using him.
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* [[Cool Guns]]: Melvin's [[Weapon of Choice]] is a Beretta 93R, a machine pistol. Obviously for [[More Dakka]] reasons.
* [[Date Rape Averted]]: Melvin's way of kidnapping Keiko is replacing the limo driver which is supposed to take Keiko and her boyfriend home. Said boyfriend uses the limo ride in attempt to rape her. Melvin immediately ends said boyfriend's life with a bullet.
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* [[The Don]]: Paris is African-American but otherwise plays this straight.
* [[Gold Digger]]: Chantel more or less sees Melvin as a wallet. Pam is a bit more subtle, but apparently not that different.
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* [[Lima Syndrome]]: Melvin develops protective feelings and then a romantic attraction to Keiko. The girl he helped kidnap.
* [[Me Love You Long Time]]: Name checked. Keiko's initial boyfriend is Caucasian. While attempting to rape her, the jerk quotes two phrases from ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'': "Me sucky-sucky" ... "Me love you long time". By implication calling his "girlfriend" an Asian whore.
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* [[Stepford Suburbia]]: Both of Melvin's residences are in suburbia, with sunny lanes and pastel color schemes. However, his neighbor is a jerk and Melvin has his own skeleton in the closet. More accurately, body parts waiting to be disposed of.
* [[Wall of Weapons]]: Melvin keeps one, as revealed at the beginning of the film. It gains in significance later on.
* [[With Friends Like These...]]: Cisco is supposedly Melvin's friend. Yet, he frequently makes fun of him, takes credit for Mel's hits and doesn't think twice about betraying him. Melvin himself seems more annoyed with his "friend" than being particularly friendly with him.
* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: Melvin himself. At some point, Mel confronts Chantel over her betrayal. She fully expects to be killed or at least beaten. He simply tells her "You should be ashamed of yourself", then walks away. This is his harshest reaction to a woman in the entire film.
* [[You Can't Handle the Parody]]:
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'''Cisco''': Yeah, I want the truth.
'''Crunch''': You can't handle the truth!
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