Thursday, August 2, 2018

Now Showing: Numero Uno

Numero Uno
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: Shane Black
Writer: Jack Ryder
Cast: Tom Hardy, Chris Hemsworth, Alexander Skarsgard, Charlize Theron, Michael Pena, Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, Viola Davis, Naomi Scott, Benicio del Toro

Plot: Three top agents in a secret spy company Adal Normand (Tom Hardy), Leo Harrison (Chris Hemsworth) and Bastion Claas (Alexander Skarsgard) and their respective tech support/their guy/girl on the computer Luna (Mila Kunis), Christine (Kristen Bell) and Esteban (Michael Pena) idolizes the Number One agent in the company Jane Doe (Charlize Theron) and are on frenemies terms with each other and everything is a contest between them. They all show their bravado's in individual missions and starts bragging about them to each other.

Bastion Claas tells other that he and Esteban were in Russia trying to steal a new tech which will help them find anybody from cameras but it was going to be auctioned to a group of Terrorists. We came to know that it is being holed up in some high tech facility. Esteban tapped into their security and guided Claas into the facility. They cracked some high tech doors but the tech was already shipped to the auction site. Esteban created a Fake persona for Bastion online and gave him a invite to auction where he can join the auction as one of the goons. When the auction started Bastion suggested Esteban to create power outage which Bastion used to create chaos inside the hall and in the end stole the Tech.

Listening to this Adal Normand stood up and said that was child's play and said you all shall ask Luna what we did in our last mission. After insistence from Adal when Luna started to speak Adal cut her and started speaking saying that the agency got an alert that a Royal Couple was going to be kidnapped and the agency wanted us to infiltrate their security where I joined as a Bodyguard to the couple. After some focused investigating I found that their private plane pilot and crew are the one's who are involved in this plan and we got ourselves invited on the trip. In flight they tried to drug us, The Royal couple dosed off as they didn't knew they were going to be kidnapped. Then we two were pitted against 7 of them. We bested them with our bare hands and jumped off the plane with the Royals and Parachutes.

Leo Harrison started laughing after listening to that saying who uses bare hand when this sweet babies, taking out his guns can do the job more efficiently. You both enjoyed the comfort of civilization on your previous missions while I was in a Terrorist camp in jungle for months. The Boss (Viola Davis) bored me with all the missions related to gather information finally she gave the order I wanted to hear, "Destroy the Camp, Leave no Witness". Ooh, the adrenaline rush that went through me was amazing nothing could stop me. I came out of my communication place and grab my sweeties and went berserk. You see this blades, takes out two blood soaked swords from his bags and tells them this blades were used by him to gut two beasts in that camp. Leo also called Christine for backup who came with a Hummer with Gatling Gun on it's back which Leo used like starved man who just got the best delicacies. They all behave like puppies in front of Numero Uno Jane Doe.

One day while all of the three are in the headquarters, they notice that Jane Doe is entering the headquarters, The three of them try to act cool in front of her. The moment she goes towards the Boss office, all the three of them start frantically running towards the office and reach the office door of Boss before it closes, while pushing each other out of the way. When Boss asks why they are here, Adal takes out a piece of torn paper from his pocket and gives it to the Boss saying it's his last mission report, Boss opens it and confused asks only "Accomplished" is written here, before anything else could be said Leo comes forward and offers her a cup of coffee saying that she should taste it, it's awesome he learnt it while he was in Siberia and tries to hand her one. Boss takes it and asks Bastion what about him to which Bastion replies he is just checking the WiFi. After the conversation the three still doesn't leave awkwardly standing there and trying to start conversations but eventually Boss shows them the door and closes it.

After sometime when Boss opens the door she finds Bastion lying on the floor near the door gap, Leo stick to a window of her office and Andal hanging on the ventilator of the office. The moment they three see Boss they all start exercising, a clearly disappointed Boss sends them back to their cabins. All the three rush to their offices and start tidying themselves. The three secretly reveal to their handlers that they overheard Boss saying that she will bring a list of qualified persons so that Jane can select. Leo asks Christine to find a stool so he can stand on it so when she comes to select them he should stand apart. While Andal starts putting up a lot of medals some his own and some not on the walls of his cabin and Bastion starts to do some pull ups. Jane and Boss comes in the meeting room and calls all the agents and handlers and announce that Jane needs some people for her next mission and when they start announcing Leo, Andal and Bastion moves a step forward but to their surprise Jane announces the names of Esteban, Christine and Luna. 

The three are impatiently waiting for their handlers to return from the mission so they can know more about her but the wait increases and they start doing futile work in the offices or turning their office into a handball stadium and playing with each other. After nearly month when their handlers return they found the office into a complete mess and the three in the most caveman look.

They all are contacted by Boss, Boss calls all the three of them in her office and tells that the spot of Numero Uno is now open and the one who will complete the next mission will get the spot. She tells the previous Numero Uno has defected from the agency. On her previous mission she was sent to grab Virgil (Naomi Scott) an enemy of peace but Numero Uno escaped with her. Now their mission is to capture both of them. Jane Doe was last spotted in Turkey with Virgil.

All of them with their Tech Support go to Turkey where they all start their own individual adventure. After some failed attempts and sabotaging each other mission they realize they need to work together.

They realize that their targets have left Turkey and are now seen in Morocco. They travel there, after some intelligent work from them which included Bastion and Esteban hacking their own agency to use the new tech they stole from Soviet and Adal and Luna interacting with the locals and gathering intelligence, they finally trap Jane Doe. They found she is wounded and hiding with Virgil. When they start to bring them back, Jane tells them the truth that she was sent here to kill Virgil which she was going to do but she reveals that the reason a kill order is issued on her is that she is the sole witness of a murder committed by Boss for her own personal agenda. Jane Doe then realized that most of her missions helped Boss in her own personal agenda and that time Jane decided that she will take no more orders from boss and that's the reason they decide to hide. The trio decide that they should not run and trap her. They bring Jane Doe and Virgil with them to their country but don't deliver them to Boss with citing some reasons.

Boss believes that the Trio has understood the real reason behind the mission and sends Second (Benicio del Toro) a dangerous criminal who was arrested by the trio in their initial days behind them to kill the trio and bring her Virgil.

Flashback
Leo, Andal and Bastion are moving towards a building but suddenly shots are fired towards them, they take cover and decide that they need to call for help. Bastion calls the handler line for the first time and Esteban picks up on the other side. Bastion explains that they have found Second hiding in a building but are having trouble entering it while saying this he reveals it's the first mission for the three of them. Esteban gets happy listening this and says this is also his first rodeo and says he is starting with his two friends Luna and Christine and calls them to say to the trio. After the greeting Esteban and group says that they have analyzed the building and they think Leo should hold the front while Andal and Esteban should enter a second building and from it's top they can enter Second's building through roof and then they can clear the floor from there. They successfully capture Second.

Present
Leo and Christine after learning about Second is on their trail decide that they needed weapons to fight the army Second will bring and tap into their contacts to get the weapons they require.

The Trio battles the Second and his goons in a warehouse while Jane Doe escapes with Virgil. The fight turns ugly with Esteban and Leo getting injured but the Esteban injury puts Bastion Claas in rage mode and he goes berserk on Second goons. Second dies in the battle but leaves a trail which connects him back to Boss. After the defeat of Second, Bastion goes to Esteban and confesses that his world will collapse if he loses Esteban to which Leo says to Christine that she also can tell him that which Christine ignores. The Trio uses the connection as clues which lead them to more Boss personal missions, with the new evidence and Virgil as witness they put a case against her in front of President who grants them the permission to go after her but Boss escapes the country during the ordeal.


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