Meanwhile, Jim Baxford (Dominic Purcell), a former soldier and armored car driver, lives with his wife, Rosie, in New York City. Rosie is in the process of recovering from a near-fatal brain tumor. Their health insurance has reached its limit, and Jim finds that he is unable to afford her treatment. He decides to cash in the pension he earned from serving in the military, but learns that much of it is lost as a result of bad investments on the part of his financial advisor. In addition, he finds himself in a $60,000 lawsuit as a result of bad real-estate investments conducted by his rogue financial advisor. Jim borrows $10,000 from a colleague to pay for an attorney to sue his financial advisor, and arranges a meeting with an assistant district attorney to discuss wrongdoings on the part of his financial advisors. However, the attorney he hired claims that he is unable to do anything and the assistant district attorney is unwilling to meet with him. Jim becomes frustrated at the loss of his money and his inability to pay for his wife's treatment and their mortgage. Because of his financial situation, his employer reluctantly fires him, as the company is not willing to trust him with large sums of money.
Rosie feels guilty for the financial strain that her illness has put on Jim and, unable to cope, commits suicide. Jim blames Wall Street financiers for ruining his life. Seeking vengeance, he purchases various firearms and grenades from an arms dealer, and begins a one-man army shooting spree on the Wall Street bosses that lost his money and contributed to the death of his wife. One by one, he kills those that have wronged him. The climax of the film has Jim staging a one-man assault and infiltration of a high-rise office building to confront and kill Jeremy Stancroft, a ruthless and greedy banker who is indirectly responsible for Jim's financial situation"
Not the best movie out there but I think that the message is clear. No one nowadays cares about the little people, the people that do the jobs most people don't want to do from a security guard to a police officer. Everyone in this film suffers but those on top until the end of the movie. The people on top are barely human, they don't care if they destroy many of the little people in order to just get fatter pockets even if they already have billions of dollars. This happens all the time in every country in the world! Yet we still let it stand because the people with the billions of dollars are the ones that actually ran the countries.
Now back to the movie, this film features many seasoned actors like the star Dominic Purcell who appeared in prison break, Keith David (Pitch Black, Dead Presidents), Edward Furlong (American History X), Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight, Runaway Train) and a few others. Yet the film suffers due to dialogue and sub par acting. I enjoyed the message of the film more and especially enjoyed the end of the film as I would do the same thing. We see this average American guy go through so much trouble and eventually snap. Towards the end he starts to stand up for whats right and he gets revenge.
2/5
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