Synopsis

The film starts with a small montage of the protagonist (James) which ends up with him holding the antagonist (Ethan) at gunpoint threating to kill him if he doesn’t explain why he killed a group of soldiers, which included his brother a few years ago back in Afghanistan. He explains he was mentally ill after an encounter with the Taliban and the other soldiers were aware of this. James then mentions how he intends to do what’s right, and avenge his fallen brothers and what he’s been through to end up at Ethan’s house. It then flashes back to when James and his brother Matt were younger playing ‘army’. When James, the older of the two mentions how he’ll always be there to look out for Mat.

We then see a small montage of the two brothers growing up and going through several situations with each other and signing up and then training for the army. Then shows them once they get into the army, performing a few training exercises. Whilst doing this they’re put into a group with the antagonist (Ethan) and from that point onwards, Matt and Ethan become very close friends. Matt trusted Ethan very much but James was never very fond of him. Then shows a group from the camp go out on a mission were Ethan gets captured by what looks like the Taliban but were actually the American government. They told Ethan to take out the English camp where the brothers are based as they were close to finding a secret base were the Americans carryout illegal weapons testing on Taliban civilians.

Ethan makes it look like he escaped and tells the camp he was tortured by Taliban to give important information about the armies’ tactics and where the base was. Ethan decides to start small and take out a small group of the camp first but wants to make sure James is included as he was starting to get suspicious. Ethan takes the necessary precautions when setting up a timed explosive near the gas supply to make it look like an accident but something went wrong and Mat was killed instead. However, no questions were asked as Ethan made it look like an accident but leaving soon after made James’ suspicion grow even more. James goes to the captain and asks for his permission to do what’s right and avenge our fallen brothers.

As James prepares to leave he asks around the camp to see if there’s any word on Ethan’s where abouts but doesn’t find anything, so decides to get on the next plane home. Little did he know the plane was filled with Ethan’s men and started to attack soon after the plane takes off. James manages to survive so questions one of the men for answers. With new information James is lead to several false locations, each one leading to the next. Until at one point Ethan slips up and is seen leaving, he gets into a car and James follows. He follows Ethan to his house and after Ethan enters the building, James waits for him to leave.

Once Ethan left, James had the chance to sneak in. He then finds the truth about what really happened when he was captured. Later, Ethan returns to find James at his table holding him at gunpoint. This is now the point just after the scene at the start where James has explained the past events. Ethan then tells James he dropped out of the mission that was set to him by the American government as he was forced to take it in the first place. For once we think James believes him so he leaves the house to return to his car, only to find out Ethan was lying. He then pulls out a remote from his desk which set to some explosives in James’ car put there whilst James was looking for Ethan at the last location. Instead, James managed to re-route them to a set in Ethan’s house. Ethan pulls the trigger and James drives away.