Plot Summary
Secret Service agent Mike Banning undergoes training at a paramilitary facility in Virginia, owned by his former Army Ranger commanding officer Wade Jennings, now CEO of private military company Salient Global. Banning is recommended for the position of Secret Service director by U.S. President Allan Trumbull, to replace retiring director David Gentry, but hides the fact that he suffers from migraines and insomnia and takes painkillers to cope with chronic back pain from previous combat injuries. While Trumbull is on a private fishing trip at Queen’s Lake in Williamsburg, a swarm of armed drones attacks and kills his protection detail, with only Banning surviving and saving him.
Both are incapacitated, but Banning recovers, while Trumbull is left in a coma. FBI agent Helen Thompson is presented with falsified evidence implicating Banning in the attack, leading to his arrest. En route to a detention facility, Banning’s transport is ambushed, but he escapes after killing the attackers and unmasking them as mercenaries from Salient Global with whom he took part in a training exercise. Realizing that Jennings has betrayed and framed him, Banning calls his wife Leah from a nearby gas station, letting her know he is alive and determined to expose the real perpetrator. The call alerts Thompson to his location, forcing Banning to steal a militia man’s 18-wheeler truck while pursued by many police officers.
Banning escapes after crashing the truck, and eventually makes his way to his estranged father, Clay, who has been living off-grid in a cabin in the backwoods of White Hall, West Virginia. At the White House, Vice President Martin Kirby, now acting president, tells the press that Banning is responsible for the assassination attempt with support from the Russian government. Banning and his father detect Salient mercenaries approaching the house. So Clay detonates multiple explosives around the perimeter, killing the would-be attackers as he and Banning escape.
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Info & Stats
Director:
Ric Roman Waugh
Writers:
Robert Mark Kamen, Matt Cook, Ric Roman Waugh
Stars:
Gerard Butler, Frederick Schmidt, Danny Huston
Categories:
Action, Thriller
Budget:
$40,000,000.00
Revenue:
$146,661,977.00
Age: RÂ Â |Â Â Duration: 2h 2m
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