Death and All His Friends
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: Quentin Tarantino
Writer: Mo Buck
Cast: Christian Bale, Uma Thurman, Christoph Waltz, Samuel L. Jackson, Zoe Saldana, Walton Goggins, Steve Buscemi
Plot: Dustin (Walton Goggins) and Alice (Zoe Saldana) peacefully eating their
dinner, talking about their day and the importance of pop culture in our
daily life in the 21st Century, when masked men kick down their door,
with swords in their hands, targeting the two lovers. Unpleasantly
surprised, Alice flips the table in the attackers' direction, giving
time to her husband to reach his dagger and for her to reach her spear.
They then start to fight the villainous forces sent to their house,
while they were peacefully living their life. Blood is all over the
place and they start to get pretty badly outnumbered. They are now
surrounded by unknown attackers. Jack T. Sunsmith (Steve Buscemi)
arrives and without saying a word, shots the husband and wife with small
needles, putting them to sleep instantly. They are carried away by the
small army, leaving their house in a bloody mess.
It's
Johnson's (Samuel L. Jackson) first day in the retirement home. His
family put him there, because he wasn't able to pay the rent alone
anymore. The foul mouthed man isn't particularly happy with the
situation and all of the employees of the Sunny Hill Retirement Home
know about it, that's for sure. All the other residents are already
complaining about him and doesn't give a single damn about that. During
Bingo time, a mandatory activity in the residence, masked people arrive
at the reception and kill the lady behind the desk. They enter in the
Bingo room and start to kill everyone. Johnson went to retrieve his
spiked baseball bat. You might think it is no match to the men's swords,
but in his more glorious day, Johnson knew how to swing that bat. He's
on a vicious rampage when Sunsmith arrives and puts him to sleep.
Charles
Hermann (Christoph Waltz) is quietly sitting in is his office, watching
two men battle themselves to death on his monitors, when Jack T.
Sunsmith arrives in his office with Dustin, Alice and Johnson in chains.
He presents them to Hermann and mentions their weapon of choice.
Hermann assigns a letter to each of them. Dustin gets an E, Alice a D
and Johnson a B. They leave Hermann's office and they're each assigned
to their previously attributed cell. Sunsmith returns to Hermann's
office to plan the future fights people want to see. Leonard, aka
Fighter A (Christian Bale) the undisputed male champion has yet to meet
an opponent worthy of his talent, so they decide to put him up against
their two new acquisitions, Fighter B and Fighter E. Hermann suggests a
fight between the newcomer Fighter D and the undefeated Fighter C, but
Sunsmith disagrees, saying she'll get destroyed in mere seconds, Hermann
doesn't care.
A woman in a yellow tracksuit is sitting in cell
C, with her sword resting near her, when Hermann and Sunsmith
interrupted her. Fighter C, aka the Bride (Uma Thurman) is the deadliest
fighter Hermann ever had in his possession. He announces her that
she'll need to fight a newcomer and she silently agrees. The Bride was
captured by Hermann Enterprise on Christmas Eve, in the middle of the
street with her kid by Sunsmith. She tried to fight them off, but she
was badly outnumbered and didn't have her sword. They killed her little
boy and finally managed to capture her. Hermann goes to Fighter D's cell
and explain to her what's going to happen. She tries to fight him off,
but she's chained to the wall and Hermann's guards have their electrical
spear with them. He announces her that she'll die tomorrow at 9 am, the
Bride and tonight will be her last dinner, with the others, in the
eating room.
All the cells are unlocked now and the chains come
off the wall and the five fighters can escape their cell. The only way
for them to go is to the eating room, about half a mile away from their
cell. They're escorted by armed guards. In the eating area, Fighter D
goes to tell Fighter E what's going to happen to her tomorrow and he
can't believe it. The newcomers all eat together Fighter D, E and B. The
Bride eats alone and Fighter A eats alone. They start talking about a
plan to try to escape out of this hell hole. All three are trained
fighters and they'll probably all end up dead anyway, so why not try it.
Johnson agrees with the couple. Fighter A interrupts their conversation
and confesses that he heard everything they said and he will join them
on one condition : they have to kill Hermann and Sunsmith in the
process. They all ask him about what they should do about the Bride and
he says he will take care of her. He says he has a fight scheduled
against both Fighter B and E tomorrow and that's when they'll start the
revolt.
The following morning, Johnson wakes up to the sound of a
trumpet and realizes that he has to go "fight". He eats a lot, and I
mean a lot, while having the weirdest, heavily vulgar conversation with
his partner, Fighter E, aka Dustin Greg. They're interrupted by guards
telling them it's time to go fight much to Johnson's disappointment. The
three of them are ready to enter the cage when Fighter A tells them
that he was unable to talk to the Bride during the evening as she
wouldn't listen to him. They ask him why she acts so strangely and why
she doesn't seem to care about what she's doing here and he tells them
that she entered a sort of psychotic state when her kid got killed. They
get their weapon and they start pummeling the guards before they enter
the cage. One of them had enough time to turn on the alarm and we see
all the guards preparing to kill the rebels.
They force their way
to the other cage, hoping they were fast enough to save Alice before
she's killed by the Bride. They enter the cage and see Alice still
trying to defend herself against the Bride. They all join force against
her and she resists them. Johnson says he has a plan and Leonard follows
him. The couple is now all alone against the deadly Bride. She kills a
couple of guards trying to get in the way. They defend themselves the
best they can in a highly stylish fight before being saved by Johnson
and Leonard who throw a sleeping dart at the Bride, putting her down.
Johnson decides to carry the Bride with them, because she still has a
chance to regain reason and they leave the cage.
Jack T. Sunsmith
was escorting The Bride to Hermann's office shortly after she arrived
at the facility. She was still in shock of the loss of her kid. She
tries to fight her way out, by breaking her chains, but she's rapidly
outnumbered and put in stronger chains. Hermann explains to her that she
only has to do ten fights for him and after that she can return home to
her husband and her other kid. She surprisingly believes him and
Hermann warns her about what will happen if she tries to get away,
before being escorted out by Sunsmith and his men.
The group of
rebels are making their way in the vast facility, killing everyone in
their sight and a bloody fashion and by every way they can. Johnson is
still trying to carry the Bride. They kill about a hundred more men,
before entering Sunsmith's apartment. He has a dozen of heavily armored
guards by his side and he himself has a katana in his hands. They battle
start and after they struggle a bit, they manage to kill the guards and
killing a defenseless Sunsmith in a horrible way. They continue to
force their way to Hermann's office, killing dozens of guard on their
way. When they enter Hermann's office, he's behind his desk, smiling at
them. That's when the Bride awakens and Hermann tells her that this was
her last fight before being released and if she kills Alice, she's free
to go. Desperate to see her family again and get out of the killing game
once and for all, she turns her back on the group and they start to
fight themselves. Hermann runs off by the back door. They all start to
fight and are overwhelmed by the Bride's extraordinary fighting skills.
They're unable to touch her and they don't even dare try to attack her,
instead staying on their toes. She's able cut Dustin's left arm and he
continues to fight anyway. She now focuses on his left arm and manages
to cut it off. Greg falls on his knees, screaming and the Bride finishes
him, by planting her sword through his brain. The others are shocked by
the Bride's achievement and she continues her quest to kill Alice. They
continue to fight, until Leonard shows her Hermann's screen, showing a
conversation between a man named the Eraser. Hermann asked him to kill
the Bride's husband and other kid and the Eraser later replying that it
was done.
We finally hear what Hermann told her what would be
happening if she tried to escape and that's exactly what he told her.
She starts to scream and throws her katana on a framed picture of
Hermann, hitting him directly between the eyes, as Alice Fletcher is
mourning her deceased husband. She swears to get revenge on Hermann.
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