National Security 🎥 2003 Movie Info

Plot Summary

As LAPD policemen Hank Rafferty and Charlie Reed investigate a warehouse heist by a gang of thieves, Charlie is killed before the thieves escape. Meanwhile, Earl Montgomery’s lifelong dream to become a police officer is thwarted when he flunks police academy for accidentally causing an explosion. Frustrated that Detective Frank McDuff won’t allow Hank to aid in the investigation of Charlie’s death, he sees Earl trying to get into his car after locking his keys inside. When Hank questions him, Earl race-baits and insults him until he tries to arrest him. A bumblebee comes along, to which Earl is allergic, causing him to panic.

From afar, it seems that Hank is brutalizing Earl when he is actually shooing the bee away with his baton; a man catches the incident on video, which Earl spitefully lies about. Hank is fired from the police force and sentenced to six months in prison for assault. After his release, Hank takes a job as a security guard and continues investigating Charlie’s death. Noticing an alarm being tripped at a soda warehouse, Hank goes to investigate. Earl, who works for the same security company, is on duty at the warehouse but is slacking off. Hank interrupts the heist, and a gunfight erupts, during which Hank and Earl cross paths again.

They give chase but are stopped for speeding. One of the thieves drops a cell phone, which leads them to a semi-trailer truck. Inside it, Hank and Earl find the thieves’ van. Earl tries to hotwire the van but accidentally triggers the alarm, alerting the thieves. After a brief shootout, Hank and Earl escape by driving the van out of the truck and off the edge of the Vincent Thomas Bridge. The van contains seemingly ordinary beer kegs; however at a foundry they discover they are actually made of an atomic aerospace alloy worth millions.

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