Genre: Action
Director: Peter Berg
Writer: Roy Horne
Cast: Mark Wahlberg, Gal Gadot, Bryan Cranston, Patrick Wilson, James Ransone, Corey Stoll, Drew Carey, Chet Hanks, Kelly Reilly
Plot: In a remote wooded cabin, an organized crime informant is under protection by the FBI. The protection unit is ambushed by a hit squad who brutally slaughter the FBI agents and the witness. One of the agents killed is the son of FBI Agent Bill Calder (Bryan Cranston), who vows revenge.
After capturing a man posing as a motorcycle cop, small-town sheriff Mark Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) goes home to his alcoholic wife Jen (Kelly Reilly), who resents what their lives have been reduced to and in a drunken fit throws an alcohol bottle at him. Sullivan once worked for the FBI, but five years ago he brutally beat a child rapist to death. He was given the option to resign or be prosecuted by the prosecutor Tom Seguin (Corey Stoll), who is now a Federal Prosecutor heading up a committee investigating the dealings of James Malcolmson (Patrick Wilson), leader of a white supremacist group.
Calder calls Sullivan in with an unsanctioned assignment to infiltrate Malcolmson's organization. Calder can't do anything officially, and he believes the FBI has a leak who has been getting agents killed, which is why Sullivan must go in secret. Bill offers to try to get Sullivan reinstated with the FBI. Together they fake Sullivan's death in an explosion. Calder then uses his FBI connections to set Sullivan up with the identity of convicted felon Teddy Brown. Sullivan manages to get an audience with Malcolmson's right-hand man Paul Rosso (James Ransone), and convinces them of his worth by harassing Martin Thorson (Drew Carey), a rival white supremacist leader who is trying to move in on his former boss Malcolmson's territory and steal his men. While at a party thrown by Malcolmson at a bar he owns, Sullivan makes the acquaintance of Angelica (Gal Gadot), who works for Rosso's top lieutenant Nick Carson (Chet Hanks).
Sullivan continues to work his way into the good graces of the Malcolmson and his crew, including devising a plan that recovers $10 million of heroin and cash seized by the DEA from one of Malcolmson's hideouts and simultaneously assists in assassinating Thorson. Carson isn't convinced that Sullivan is who he says and manages to find proof of the deception, showing Sullivan's photo to a police informant who previously snitched on the real Brown. Calder discovers that the leak the FBI has been looking for is Seguin, who has been feeding information directly to Malcolmson. Sullivan accompanies Carson to a cemetery for a hit job, but discovers that the target is Calder, which causes him to blow his cover. Sullivan and Calder manage to kill Carson and another hit man, but Calder is severely wounded in the exchange.
Sullivan escapes, assisted by Angelica. He tells her to go to the airport and wait for him. He then suits up, gathers an arsenal of firearms and raids one of Malcolmson's hideouts, killing everyone and stealing a large amount of drug money. He then sets off for Malcolmson's bar, where he embarks on a killing spree, single-handedly wiping out all his soldiers. Rosso and Malcolmson retreat to a back room, but Rosso is cut down in a barrage of gunfire. Malcolmson flees into an office pleading for his life, but Sullivan mercilessly guns him down. On his way out, he encounters a whimpering Seguin and offers him a gun with the same line Seguin gave him five years earlier: "Resign or be prosecuted." Sullivan starts to walk off. Seguin attempts to shoot him, but Sullivan turns and shoots Seguin dead in self-defense. After driving to the airport, Sullivan hands a duffel bag containing $1 million in cash to Angelica and gets her on a chartered plane, telling her she can start a new life.
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