Genre: Action
Director: Olivier Megaton
Writer: Meirad Tako
Producer: Patrick Hughes
Cast: Jamie Dornan, Michelle Monaghan, Sigourney Weaver, Jackie Chan, Samuel L. Jackson, Max Irons, James Ransone, Armand Assante
Plot: A Man is watching how the war on the front line goes with his binocular, it is General Daniel Todd (Samuel L. Jackson) his face is dead serious, in his head he is praying that this endless conflict will be over soon. He orders his division to march forward he knows It will be a suicide mission but at least it will break the enemy line. And he’s right, hundreds of the first division he sent was dead just like that, but he’s second division was ready and successfully push the rest of the enemy and it was a victory for them that day, his men congratulate him for that.
It was a rainy night; an old man walks slowly in a dark alley. This old man walks with his two other bodyguard cornering a young man. He is sweating and in great fear, the old man shows him a picture of someone he clearly knows who, “You kill this bitch, I know you know her. Her debt to me is kind of big you know” he said while taking out another picture showing a young woman and 2 kids is tied and knocked. “but if you decided to have some morality in this world, William (James Ransone). You can expect these people dead” he said while laughing and throw the picture to William and left him. William pick it up, the picture is wet, the smile in the picture is haunting but he has no choice.
In the same night and in the same pouring rain, William walks slowly towards a house, the light is still up and when he’s in front of the door he can hear some “Happy Birthday” song from inside. His heart is beating fast, his hand which is holding a gun is shaking wild, he even needs his other hand to hold and calm it down. With some deep breath he knocks. A woman opened the door, she kind of shock. She hugged him, asking where her little brother been gone for all these years. He’s soaked wet but we can still see from the side of his eyes that he is crying, she asked him what’s going on and why is he silence, a young girl about 12-year-old came out and asked her mom who is the stranger in their door. “It’s your uncle William” she said. She invites him to get inside but he still in silence, he slowly takes out gun that he hid on his back. The woman notices that and shout to her daughter to run. “I’m so sorry for this”. The film turned black with a gun shot.
The film is back to General Daniel Todd on a plane to be back on the U.S soil. He has some weird feeling when he looks at his family photo, he cannot understand what is the feeling. From his side, his friend asked who it is and Daniel told him that she is his wife and explain before he asked that he was so focus on his military career and is late to find a significant other and ended up married a 27-year-old girl when he was 45. Now he’d decided to retire from the army live, he wants to be at home for his wife and daughter. Fast forward, he is just coming out of the cab and shocked fell to his knees when he sees his house is circled by police line. And the rest of his decision is history. Now, he sits in silence, handcuffed. In front of him, Special Agent Christopher Wayne (Jamie Dornan) sit. He is reading Daniel’s report. Daniel crack some joke to cool down the situation, it was actually funny but Christopher just doesn’t buy it. Christopher opens up the conversation with “Why?”, he likes to interrogate straight to the point. Daniel jokingly said that he was just messing around and testing his then new shotgun and when the situation gets complicated, he flees, Christopher doesn’t buy and asking why once again but still ended up answered by a joke. The interrogation keeps going until they fly above the Pacific Ocean when Daniel’s joke gets darker and darker.
Somewhere.
A door was open with Felix (Max Irons) mediating inside the room, he slowly opens his eyes and ask “what”? and the voice from the door tells him that the target is on the location. Felix just calmly told them to get ready. Back to the plane, Christopher is sitting on the chair, he gets overly irritated by Daniel’s answer and just walk out, he takes out a pen and having a flashback, in the last day meeting the commissioner Chan Ka-Kui (Jackie Chan), he gave Christopher a pen and show him a button on the pen and told Christopher that it will save him on the ocean, Christopher just accept it without thinking anything. Back to the plane, Christopher was ‘woken up’ by one of his team that rush opened the door and told him that there is a plane that comes towards them in a high speed, Christopher got up and rush to the radar to see how fast. It was so fast and he gather his men, he gave them order to defend some location on the plane and they immediately get into the position. Christopher is watching the plane, it was a fighter jet and see a man on top of it standing with help of some cable, it is Felix and in no time the jet shoot a small missile to the body of the plane and make a big hole, Felix shoot a wire gun to the plane and fly to the plane. Christopher’s men seem so surprised by the attack and leave their position to surround Felix and rush to attack Felix, they are well trained for a short combat but not as well trained as Felix. With his unique ninja-like fighting style, he utilizes his katana and environment for the better and take down most of Christopher’s men in a couple of minutes, the rest who still standing slowly back off and shoot their machine gun. From his suit, Felix took out a shield that protect him from the bullets, he slowly walks away and expose his enemy to the hole in the plane where Felix’s plane shot them with its machine gun killing them all. Felix proceed to the part of the plane where Daniel is kept, he can see Christopher is fighting with him trying to handcuffed him, Felix take part and kick Christopher across the room. Daniel told him why he did it, because of mere revenge, he just felt his service wasn’t appreciated after the blood he poured for the country, it cannot even solve the murder of his family, their army veteran, what is the point of all things he had done for the country? Nothing. They walk out from the scene leaving Christopher, he got up and went to the pilot room, when he reaches it, he can see the pilot was shot by the jet as he walks in to the cockpit, and now the plane is free falling, he quickly push an S.O.S button from the cockpit. He had no choice rather than take the parachute and jump of to the cold ocean water below him and now he is also free falling at least he’s with a parachute. He takes out the parachute for a while it was okay before when it’s near the water and a wind blows him all over the place that he had to take it off. Now he is on the ocean alone, waiting for help, he remembered the pen and push the button, it shoots out a rubber boat. He shakes his head thinking Ka-Kui just foreshadow he’ll fall from a plane to an ocean.
Somewhere, Daniel walk in a room and meet Damian Frasher (Armand Assante) who is sitting in front of him while smoking a cigar, Damian welcomes him to his private island, he jokes about feeling like a godfather in his own mansion alone. Daniel chuckle and immediately went serious and talk about his agreement with Felix if he helps them to rob the biggest bank, he’ll help him get the killer of his wife. Damian smiles and blow his smoke to the air, he told Daniel that he will help him, catching a person is an easy think for him, they have an agreement and they shake hands. A few moments before, In the FBI HQ, Special Agent-In-Charge Barbara Smith (Sigourney Weaver) held a meeting discussing about Christopher’s Case and thinking if it will be utterly useless to be continue as it just a single person but Special Agent Scarlet Fisher (Michelle Monaghan) respectfully interrupt her boss’s talk and told her that Daniel maybe have a link to Damian Frasher, S.A.C Barbara asked what’s her reason, and she showed her a somefile that she has been doing for some time. S.A.C Barbara is known as a cold handed leader and not bothered with an idea to sacrifice her man or just leave them if they are seen as not valuable, but it seems that Christopher’s can be continued. An alarm goes off and she calls her subordinates and asked what happened, they told her they receive an S.O.S alarm from Christopher’s Plane and she immediately order a rescue mission.
Christopher was chilling on his cozy rubber boat, it has been a day and a half, but he still chilling like nothing is happening, but a helicopter’s sound make him scream for help and a ladder fell down in front of him from helicopter above, he can see Scarlets’ mocking smile and he climbed. He thanked her for the help and for convincing Barbara to save him but she ignored him entirely. Somewhere, William is chained up in a cell, his face is full of bruise, someone is entering the cell, it is Damian. Damian looks at him and tell him that Daniel is here, Wiliam looks surprise but it disappear in despair. Damian just laugh. Daniel is in front of the biggest bank in the U.S, he is with a couple of other men, and it runs wild, the plan was perfect and the bank was not expected it, it was already been sabotaged from inside so the call for help was delayed for a full 2 hours.
Christopher was at home when he got call about the robbery and who the suspect is, he quickly change and chase Daniel, when he arrived, the bank is full locked down and surrounded by the police force, he can see some police had been shot down and drag out of the scene. He receive some message from his phone, it was from Scarlet, she shows him a secret pessage for him to enter and she is waiting. Not long waiting they are on the way to break in. the came up in the toilet from the underground passage, the building is empty and are focused on the main hall where the hostage are held, they can take down some of the robber. While sneaking, Christopher ask what happened, Scarlet told him that Daniel is more likely being tricked to help Damian Frasher, - the biggest mafia in the U.S – to rob in change of Daniel’s wife killer which also was ordered by Damian for some reason, Christopher was just nodding, their sneaky sneak was ended when they were found out by a group of men and starts a shoots out. Hearing the shoots out, some of Daniel men try to investigate leaving Daniel alone in the main hall way and leave him no choice but to retreat cause when the guard in the main hall is loosen the police force rush in. Back to Chris and Scarlet it looks like their chemistry with each other help them to navigate the situation and beat most of Daniel’s men before the police force came and giving them a back up. Daniel had escaped from some other way that was discovered after he went away.
In the island, Damian was furious and throw Daniel to the cell with William, when he sees William’s face he quickly beat William up, but stopped half way when William told him, he’s been tricked, William told him what happened that day and why it happened. Daniel fell on his knees and cry for a while before he wipe all of it, he made an idea. He made some noise in the cell until one of the guard came in, Daniel take down the guard in ease, he release William and tried to escape, on the way they released other many people that was held in their cell and continue their escape but failed cause they were blocked by Felix who had been waiting for them. They tried to fight him, but they can’t land a single hit on Felix. Without noticing, someone else is watching them and then move away.
In the HQ, Scarlet got a call from her informant and immediately held a meeting and explain the situation, the island now is in chaos and now is the right time to strike. Barbara seems to thinking about it, everyone in the room is sweating and anxious about her decision. A couple of minutes later she approved and everyone gets ready. Now 5 FBI helicopter is heading towards the island, the island has missile but because of the uproar the island was pretty much untouchable but now they can break into it. The FBI force came down even Barbara herself ambush the mansion.
Felix is standing on top of Williams dead body, He sacrifice himself to hold into Felix so Daniel can go, with his sword on his back he sliced William’s body into 2 but let Daniel walk away. There was so much shoot out, the mansion is big and their main target is Damian and their second target is Daniel. Chris and Scarlet were separated by the other and were met by Felix that disarmed them pretty quick and leave them one melee. Felix can hold on them both at once, even though scarlet is a master in a martial art it is not enough, she was kicked pretty hard by him and sends her to the near wall. Felix and Christopher is pretty even but Chris can turned the table when he starts doing tricky move and tricked Felix, he was pushed back and starts using, his sword and give Christopher his other sword cause Felix feels it is unfair. Christopher accept the sword and continues their unique martial arts, the ninja-ish fighting style is epic and wild, they have some long minutes in their fights and left them with wound all over the place, they smile to each other cause they understand each other. And in the last swing to each other, Christopher stand last. He woke Scarlet up and help her to Damian’s room, but they were in shocked, they can see Daniel is hitting Damian’s head with big rock and it is destroyed and Daniel stand up and rise his hand and said “I Surrender white boy.” The fight lasted for 4 hours and it was a success, heavy casualties actually suffered by both side but win is a win. Finally Daniel is in prison for a lifetime, his last word to Chris was “That was fun.”
Post-Credits Scene: Christopher is in China, he’s attending Chan Ka-Kui’s retirement party, it was a modest yet fun party until the film black out when Chan Ka-Kui was shot by someone.
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