Genre: Action/Superhero
Director: Wes Ball
Writer: APJ
Based on the DC Comics character
Cast: Armie Hammer, Vanessa Kirby, Clive Owen, Zhang Ziyi, Ray Stevenson, Scott Adkins, Q'orianka Kilcher
Plot: Billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Armie Hammer) goes to a charity auction fundraiser in Star City. He gets drunk and begins making outrageous bids on items. He then throws up while on stage. The next morning Ollie is mortified and tells his business manager Hackett (Ray Stevenson) that he would like to tag along on a business trip involving some of Queen Industries' offshore accounts. Hackett tries to talk him out of it, but Ollie insists. On the luxury ship, The Pacific Queen, Ollie learns that Hackett has been embezzling money on behalf of a criminal named China White (Zhang Ziyi). Hackett holds Ollie at gunpoint while discussing what to do with him with China White over the phone. China orders him to shoot Ollie. Instead Hackett pistol-whips Ollie and tosses him overboard.
Oliver Queen, now a bow-wielding vigilante known as the Green Arrow foils a bank robbery in Star City. He easily defeats the robbers, but it turns out to be a set-up and he is attacked by Constantine Drakon (Scott Adkins). They fight, with Drakon easily gaining the upperhand in hand-to-hand combat. Just as cops arrive, responding to the bank vault alarm, Drakon stabs Queen in the shoulder, pinning him to a wall. He tells Queen that he isn't paid enough to kill to kill superheroes yet. Drakon then escapes the building with the cops closing in.
Ollie washes ashore a tropical island. He is alone, tired and hungry. He begins wandering into the nearby jungle. He comes upon the remains of a camp, along with a water pump and power generator, both of which, turn out to be useless however. Near the camp is a pit that leads down into a dark, dank shaft It is filled with the skeletal remains of human bodies – victims of apparent gunshot wounds. Going back topside, Ollie finds a leaf-spring suspension blade and fashions it into a makeshift bow. He uses rusty nails, bamboo shoots and broken bottles to make arrows, and manages to eke out an existence for himself hunting fish, birds and monkeys. Several nights pass, and Ollie hears the sound of an airplane from off in the distance. He runs out from the camp and fires a signal flare arrow (made from burning rubber) in the plane's direction. As the plane angles itself in Ollie's direction, a gunman leans out the hatch and begins spraying machine gun fire at him. Ollie manages to respond with two well-placed arrows. The pilot loses control and the plane crashes into the side of a mountain. Ollie scales the side of the mountain to inspect the wreckage and manages to acquire a pair of boots in the process. Wandering around the volcanic base of the mountain, Ollie finds tilled fields of poppy seed. He also meets a pregnant native woman named Taiana (Q'orianka Kilcher) who tells him that China White uses slave labor to cultivate the poppies for heroin. China White and Hackett arrive at the sight of the downed plane, and Taiana and Ollie hides in the brush. China orders Hackett to find out who is responsible for the plane crash. She also has him finish off the surviving crewmen.
Queen pulls the arrow out of his shoulder and tries to chase after Drakon. Queen makes his way to the rooftop of the bank just as cops burst into the bank. On the rooftop, Queen is ambushed by the Dark Archer (Clive Owen). The Dark Archer attacks Queen, all the while inquiring where Queen learned his archery skills. The Dark Archer tells Queen that the best archer will win before vanishing in a cloud of smoke.
Ollie encounters Hackett in the jungle. Hackett opens fire on him with his machine gun, but Ollie pins him to a tree with an arrow. Hackett draws a handgun and tags Ollie in the shoulder. He then frees himself from the arrow and produces a grenade launcher, which he fires in Ollie's direction. The attack fails to produce the desired results however, and the tree falls down on top of Hackett. Ollie is bleeding profusely and collapses to the ground.
Various Star City business leaders are found murdered, each with an arrow in the heart. The police announce that the vigilante known as the Green Arrow is suspected of the murders. Queen, dressed as Green Arrow, breaks into the Star City Police Department to steal forensic evidence to see if it can help him find the Dark Archer. On his way out of the building, he is attacked by the Black Canary (Vanessa Kirby). She uses a sonic device called the "Canary Cry" that emits a deafeningly high-pitched sound to incapacitate Queen.
When Ollie wakes up, he finds Taiana kneeling over him. She resets his arm that was broken during his fight with Hackett. Meanwhile, Hackett reports back to China White. China is furious that Hackett didn't shoot Ollie aboard the Pacific Queen as she instructed him to. She tells him to find Queen and finish him off or else she will throw him away in a dungeon to be eaten by rats. A short time later, two of China's gunmen find the meager camp that Taiana and Ollie have been resting in. They open fire on him, but Ollie drives them off with several well-placed shots from his custom-made bow. Taiana and he run off in separate directions and Ollie eventually reaches the shoreline. He is shocked to find that his yacht, the Pacific Queen has beached itself on the shore. He goes inside to clean himself up and gather supplies. He then sets fire to the ship. He hopes that the flames will alert China White's mercenaries and that they will come looking for him.
Queen wakes up in a warehouse when the Black Canary pours a bucket of water on him. He is tied to a beam. Black Canary asks why he was breaking into the police station for the evidence. He tells her about the Dark Archer, who is clearly trying to frame him. Black Canary believes him and asks why Oliver Queen of all people has decided to become a superhero. She unties him and introduces herself as Dinah Lance. Together they discuss how they can catch the Dark Archer, when Dinah suggests that since the Archer is killing business leaders, that Queen take over as the public face of his family's company and hold a big event to draw the Dark Archer out.
Ollie attacks a patrol boat that saw the smoke and are trying to find him. He takes the boat and returns to the base. He gets inside while China White believes that her men have already killed him. Ollie stops a drug shipment from leaving, while Taiana frees the natives. Hackett electrocutes Ollie, while Ollie is trying to make a broadcast to get help.
Oliver Queen holds a huge gala event at the Queen Industries headquarters in Star City with Dinah Lance as his date. Sure enough, during the event the power goes out. Queen and Dinah head to the stairwell where they have hidden their costumes and weapons. Drakon and the Dark Archer make their way through the building looking for Queen. Black Canary uses her Canary Cry, which incapacitates Drakon, but has seemingly no effect on the Dark Archer. The Archer and Queen fight their way up the stairwell all the way up to the rooftop. Queen asks the Archer why he's doing all this. The Dark Archer says that he and Drakon were hired to kill business leaders to clear out the Star City ports for his employer. Queen and the Archer square off on the roof, shooting arrows at each other, before engaging in hand-to-hand combat. The Dark Archer manages to get Queen in a choke hold, but Queen grabs an arrow from the Archer's quiver and manages to stab the Dark Archer through the chest with one of his own arrows, by stabbing himself through his shoulder. Queen demands the Dark Archer to tell him who his employer is, but the Dark Archer refuses, telling Queen that Drakon has his "lady friend", before passing out.
On the island, the natives have overrun China White's men. Hackett tries to kill Ollie, but Taiana holds a gun to the back of Hackett's head, but Ollie says not to shoot him. China White, however, does shoot Hackett. She says that if Oliver doesn't drop his weapon then she will shoot Oliver and Taiana. Ollie tells China White the story of Robin Hood, then shoots a rope that was holding a large crate which falls on her and her men. China White and the rest of her men are arrested. Taiana refuses to go with Oliver back to Star City, saying that her and the rest of the natives just want to be left in peace.
Queen makes his way down to the docks in search of Drakon and Dinah. As he is searching for them, he recognizes a ship at the docks as one of China White's ship. He goes on board to investigate. In the bowels of the ship, he finds China and Drakon with a tied up Dinah. He shoots an arrow to free Dinah. He then fires a barrage of arrows at Drakon. Constantine Drakon catches a couple of arrows and attacks Queen with his own arrows. While Drakon and Queen fight, Black Canary attacks China White and her men. Queen uses an explosive trick arrow to blow a hole in the side of the ship. He grabs Black Canary and shoots a grappling arrow out of the hole and out onto the docks. Queen shoots a series of arrows at Drakon as he is escaping. By the time Drakon has reached the docks, he has been hit with several arrows, slowing him down. Queen hits Drakon across the face with his bow, knocking him out cold. China White, meanwhile, goes down with her sinking ship. Oliver Queen and Dinah Lance watch from a nearby rooftop as police arrive to arrest the unconscious Constantine Drakon.
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