Genre: Action/Spy
Director: Yann Demange
Writer: D.R. Cobb
Based on the video game series
Cast: Tom Cruise, Laurence Fishburne, Woody Harrelson, Holt McCallany, Morena Baccarin, Michael Mosley, Cliff Curtis, Shaun Toub, Ali Suliman, Patrick Heusinger, Pete Ploszek
Plot: Sam Fisher (Tom Cruise) and rookie John Hodge (Pete Ploszek) are being flown to Iceland to investigate suspicious activities at a geothermal plant. Fisher tells Irving Lambert (Laurence Fishburne) that he's not sure Hodge is ready for the mission, but Hodge insists he's ready to go. While on the ground, Hodge breaks from his assignment to enter the plant by himself over Fisher and Lambert's protests. Fisher enters through an air duct and watches as Hodge is confronted by a group of guards. Hodge surrenders, but the guards shoot him several times anyways. Fisher drops down from the ducts, takes out the guards, and stops the missile launch.
Fisher is met by Lambert aboard the V-22 Osprey to deliver bad news. Sarah Fisher, Sam's only child, has been killed by a drunk driver. Overcome with grief, he is unable to concentrate on his work and is pulled out of active service. Shortly thereafter, Irving Lambert offers him the rank of a NOC (non-official cover operative), hoping that it will help him refocus. NOC's are operatives with backgrounds from both the CIA and NSA, trained to infiltrate organizations for intelligence purposes. The government denies any involvement in their activities. The NSA stages multiple bank robberies and killings to set up Fisher to infiltrate a domestic terror organization known as John Brown's Army (JBA). He is sent to Ellsworth Federal Penitentiary in Kansas where he is placed in the same cell block as Jamie Washington (Michael Mosley), a JBA member, and begins digging a tunnel for escape. Fisher offers Washington to escape with him. They dig out of the building and into the yard where a helicopter picks them up. Washington offers Fisher a place with the JBA.
At their compound in New York City, Emile Dufraisne (Woody Harrelson), the leader of the JBA, gives Fisher the order to shoot Cole Yeagher (Patrick Heusinger), the pilot of the helicopter used to escape the prison. Fisher shoots him, earning the trust of the JBA. Dufraisne welcomes Fisher into the organization, where Fisher meets Enrica Villablanca (Morena Baccarin), weapons expert, and Carson Moss (Holt McCallany), Dufraisne's right-hand man. Dufraisne sends him on a mission to capture a Russian oil tanker in the Sea of Okhotsk. Sam needs to capture the tanker so Massoud Ibn Yussif (Shaun Toub), a JBA ally, can use it to deliver one of the bombs.
As soon as Fisher is finished, he is quickly flown to the Jin Mao Hotel in Shanghai. CIA agent Hisham Hamza (Cliff Curtis) orders him to record a meeting between Emile and a Pakistani nuclear scientist, Dr. Aswat (Ali Suliman). During the meeting, Aswat sells Dufraisne several kilograms of Red Mercury, an explosive material. With Third Echelon on high alert, Fisher is told to collect a sample from the safe in the meeting room. While he's doing that, Dufraisne's right-hand man Carson Moss radios in and orders him to steal Aswat's notes from his hotel room. Hamza then orders the assassination of Dr. Aswat. Fisher kills Aswat and steals the notes, before extracting on the JBA's helicopter.
With both the Red Mercury and Dr. Aswat's notes, the JBA constructs a bomb which they wish to test. Dufraisne sends Fisher to Cozumel to blow up a cruise ship. Instead of detonating the bomb, Fisher prevents the explosion by jamming the signal. Dufraisne, in a fit of rage, kills the captain of the ship and sends the ship on a collision course with a port. Before escaping with Dufraisne and the other JBA members, Fisher secretly triggers an alarm that tells the passengers to head for the life boats.
Dufraisne goes to a meeting in Kinshasha, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with Massoud Ibn Yussif and Hisham Hamza, who is undercover as terrorist Alejandro Takfir. Fisher secretly bugs the meeting and discovers that each has a Red Mercury bomb. They are planning to detonate the bombs in Mexico City, Los Angeles and New York City. At the end of the meeting, Dufraisne reveals that he knows Hamza is not who he says he is and shoots him in the head.
When Fisher returns to the JBA headquarters, he discovers that Moss has captured Lambert, who was sneaking around the complex, planting surveillance equipment with his team - all of whom have already been killed. Lambert tells Dufraisne that his plan has already failed, as Third Echelon has already helped authorities stop the bombs headed for Mexico and Los Angeles in transit. Dufraisne orders Fisher to shoot Lambert. Lambert whispers to Fisher to do whatever it takes to disarm the bombs. Fisher then shoots Lambert in the chest. Moss and Washington take Lambert's body away. Enrica tells Fisher that she knows about his NOC status, but hasn't told the rest of the JBA. She tells him how to get into the labs underneath the HQ.
Fisher proceeds through the compound, passing through the secret labs below. He observes Emile ordering Moss and Washington to kill all the scientists and prepare to detonate the bomb in New York City. Fisher makes his presence known in order to allow the scientists to escape. Moss runs out of the lab with the bomb, while Dufraisne attacks Fisher. While Dufraisne and Fisher are fighting in the lab, Washington walks in and shoots Dufraisne. He tells Fisher that he never really wanted to blow up New York City. Fisher thanks Washington and tells him to get lost. Fisher then races after Moss.
As Fisher leaves the JBA HQ, the building is swarmed by a NYPD SWAT team. Fisher evades the NYPD and pursues Moss to New York Harbor. Fisher finds Moss on a Coast Guard boat in the Hudson River attempting to set off the last remaining Red Mercury bomb. Fisher jumps onto the boat. After a struggle, Fisher manages to kill Moss and disable the bomb. Fisher drives the boat out to sea.
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