Genre: Heist/Superhero
Director: Joe Cornish
Writer: Wesley Campbell
Producer: Edgar Wright
Based on the comic series
Cast: Zac Efron, Chloe Bennet, Billy Nighy, Christopher Meloni, Matt Lanter, Jamie Bell, Haley Joel Osment, Bill Skarsgard, Alex Pettyfer, Larry David, James Badge Dale
Plot: A wedding is happening, but the wife, Kasey (Chloe Bennet), sees the groom's nowhere in sight.
On his wedding day, Johnny Bolt (Zac Efron), Frostbite, and Frostbite's brothers robbed a jewelry store.
The Gladiator (Christopher Meloni) slowly catches up to them, jumping onto a speeding subway. He easily defeated them not before Johnny tries to shock him but gets his face punched in. Gladiator leaves them & the money to the cops mocking Johnny's powers.
Johnny returns to a supermax prison for five years as his old cellmate awaits to play chess.
Five years later
At the Osiris casino, The Heat (Larry David), a former super-villain, enjoys his hot streak betting on Roulette but is working with a kid, Walt Flanagan, who's a level 4 psychic who could see 30 seconds into the future. Flanagan identifies which numbers will win, and The Heat would play them. Ascending from his $50 principal to $12,000,000 in winnings, the croupier becomes bored with Heat's nonstop victories, signaling to Casino management which becomes aware that someone's gaming the system. The casino owner, The Salamander (James Badge Dale), orders for The Heat to visit the top suite while ordering to find Heat's ringer.
Dragged to the room, The Heat watches as The Salamander orders his teleporter to teleport a cigar box into Flanagan's skull. The Heat watches in horror as The Salamander then beats and orders The Heat to pay him back $100,000,000 in restitution by the end of the month, threatening to kill The Heat if he reneged.
Somewhere, Johnny Bolt visits his ex-fiancée, Kasey, at her job as a waitress, trying to work a late shift. Bitter that Johnny got himself arrested on her wedding day, Kasey tries to send Johnny away, denying there's anything left between them. Kasey comments how Johnny's always five minutes ago going back to supermax. Johnny struggles to explain himself until The Heat arrives in severe pain. Then, as The Heat had mentored them both, Kasey lent him a room to recover while Johnny came up with a plan to help The Heat pay off his debts. Finally, they'll hit a place where no superheroes will be and have a lot of money. Something he's been planning while in the joint.
By Kasey's recommendation, Johnny visits with The Heat to recruit the crew. His first stop was for The Ghost (Matt Lanter), an intangible super crook who's gone straight as a wealthy architect after a career as a cat-burglar. At the airport, The Heat bets it's a "no," but Johnny comments how maybe Heat shouldn't bet on things since it's caused everything going on.
Later, The Ghost initially refused, but he joins for The Heat's sake to help him pay his debts, as The Heat had mentored The Ghost during his time in prison.
Next on the list was TK McCabe (Jamie Bell), a telekinetic who went straight as a construction worker. But, abused as he was by his boss, he gladly joined Johnny's heist. After that, they picked up Forecast, who had gone straight as an umbrella salesman, causing unnatural storms so that Forecast could sell umbrellas for exorbitant prices. Despite the extortion, he didn't make much and agreed to join Johnny's team for a bigger payout.
Finally, Johnny sought out Roddy (Haley Joel Osment) and Sammy Diesel (Bill Skarsgard), brothers who could regenerate from any wound and fought in prize rings for a living. As Johnny had rapport with both, being friends with Roddy and having done time with Sammy, it was just a matter of choosing which to hire. The Heat suggested Sammy for his brutality, but when a competitor in a fighting ring incapacitated Sammy with a laser beam, Roddy ripped off Sammy's own leg. He beat their competitors into submission with it. Impressed by Roddy's savagery, Johnny hired them both.
Together, the crew boarded a flight for Tenerife in the Spanish Canary Islands. Kasey used her psychic powers to make everyone think they were rabbis. They rented an apartment as their base of operations and then went to pick up "Glenda," the last member of their team. As it turned out, "Glenda" was an online alias for The Gladiator, who was there in secret to have anonymous sex with men he met online. Johnny revealed himself and blackmailed The Gladiator, threatening to expose his homosexual trysts unless he helped them rob the greatest super-villain of all time: The Bastard (Billy Nighy).
Skittish at the thought of robbing The Bastard, the crew recounted to Johnny the story of Danny Dubrovnik. Danny had left the super-villain game and cheated The Bastard in some business dealings, making out $5,000,000 to start a Japanese import-export business in Miami, where his business prospered. In addition, he married Mae-Ling, the love of his life. Unfortunately, things started to go wrong for Danny when one of his old school friends died horrifically, his head literally exploding from within. Next, old car-jacking colleagues of his also died; similarly, even his favorite hooker and dealer, followed by his best friend, mother, half-brother, and so on, until 241 of his acquaintances were dead, each with exploded skulls. Danny sought to hide in a remote location with his wife until she suddenly complained of a headache before her own head exploded in front of Danny's face. Danny begged The Bastard for death, but The Bastard denied him.
Undeterred by the story of The Bastard's vengeance, Johnny convinced the crew to carry out the heist anyway, intending to use The Gladiator to counter The Bastard's new bodyguard, disgraced superhero The Praetorian (Alex Pettyfer). Johnny sent Kasey and Roddy Diesel to pose as temporal experts intending to pitch a time machine schematic to The Bastard. While The Bastard rejected their idea, simply being inside allowed Kasey to create a schematic of the entire mansion by taking memories from the security guards.
Kasey, her job ostensibly finished, departed for the airport back to America. Johnny and the rest of the crew then commenced the heist, using The Ghost to phase through the ground into security centers to disable alarms and guards. The Forecast then brought down lightning bolts to incapacitate the perimeter guards, and the crew moved in on the mansion. However, even as they entered, The Bastard and The Praetorian captured Kasey at the airport.
In the basement of the mansion, Forecast chilled the hinges of a significant security door. At the same time, Sammy Diesel used the robotic arms that he won in a prize match to rip it from the wall. Within, they found a long shaft into the depths of the mansion. Hence, TK McCabe used his telekinesis to levitate everyone safely to the bottom. At the same time, The Praetorian, The Bastard, and his servant Miguel were en route to the mansion with Kasey, despite seemingly taking the road to an abandoned theme park instead.
Circumventing a flame pit by having Roddy Diesel blast through a wall instead, they came to the entrapped passage leading up to the vault. Guarded by "molecular chainsaws," which would slice apart even The Ghost, they send the Diesel brothers to rush through them. Although they were sliced limb from limb numerous times, they constantly regenerated any limbs they lost. Over thirteen long minutes, they were able to stumble to the off switch while leaving a trail of gore behind them, deactivating the lasers for their compatriots. Finally arriving at the vault door, The Heat brought out his signature ray gun and melted through it, allowing the super crooks to take the loot and depart.
In the "mansion," The Bastard ministered truth serum to Kasey and learned from her that he was being robbed, so he sent The Praetorian to intercept the departing super crooks. Teleporting in front of them, The Praetorian morphed into multiple copies of himself and assaulted the super crooks as an entire unit, The Gladiator standing by in amusement to watch the men who blackmailed him get a "shit-kicking." Eventually, however, The Gladiator did get tired of it and revealed himself to The Praetorian. In fear, The Praetorian tried to reason with The Gladiator. Still, The Gladiator was disgusted by The Praetorian's corruption and abandonment of being a superhero to be The Bastard's bodyguard. Finally, with one punch, The Gladiator defeated The Praetorian and left him with permanent brain damage.
Once more in the "mansion," The Bastard prepared to shoot Kasey until she pushed him away with psychic powers. Countering her powers with his own, The Bastard then exploded her brain and asked for his security detail to report. The guards informed The Bastard that the entire mansion had been leveled and plundered, as The Bastard stood in what appeared to be a pristine mansion. The Bastard then realized that he was standing in an illusion. After rejecting it, he discovered that he had killed his servant Miguel, not Kasey. As the illusion collapsed around him, he found himself in the theme park far away from his now-destroyed mansion.
Meanwhile, Kasey joined the fleeing super crooks. They celebrated her psychic mastery, only allowing The Bastard to see what she wanted him to see. They split the loot eight ways. With TK McCabe getting a family vacation, Forecast buying a space shuttle, The Ghost buying up Greek properties, Roddy Diesel worked on creating a time machine, Sammy Diesel bought hookers, and Johnny Bolt and Kasey pooling to build a retirement fund. Nonetheless, the Gladiator, who did not get a cut, came out as gay and was accepted by society. Still, The Heat also managed to keep his cut rather than pay back The Salamander.
As it turns out, the costumes Johnny Bolt and the rest of the super crooks wore were identical to those worn by The Salamander and his crew, making The Bastard think them responsible. The Bastard then slew them all in misplaced vengeance, removing The Heat's obligation to repay and avoiding The Bastard's retribution. The Heat, free of obligation and enemies, then spent all of his share on investments, fine wine, women, and most of all, gambling.
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