A team of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) operatives, led by John Wharton (a.k.a “Breacher”) is sent to bust the safe house of a drug cartel, although the main and actual motive is to pocket millions of dollars worth of loot. With the money safely hidden, the squad thinks that their secret is safe – until a mysterious assassin starts assassinating the team members one by one.
Sabotage is an American action film written and directed by David Ayer, co-written by Skip Woods, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams, Mireille Enos and Terrence Howard. The film was released in the United States on March 28, 2014.
Filming started on October 12, 2012 and was completed by December 13, 2012. While the initially released poster for the film gave a release date of April 11, it was released on March 28, 2014.
About the Story
John “Breacher” Wharton (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is the leader of an elite team of DEA agents from the Special Ops Division, which includes James “Monster” Murray (Sam Worthington) and his wife Lizzy Murray (Mireille Enos), Joe “Grinder” Philips (Joe Manganiello), Julius “Sugar” Edmonds (Terrence Howard), Eddie “Neck” Jordan (Josh Holloway), Tom “Pyro” Roberts (Max Martini), Bryce “Tripod” McNeely (Kevin Vance), and “Smoke” Jennings (Mark Schlegel).
Sabotage is an4 American action film written and directed by David Ayer, co-written by Skip Woods, and starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Olivia Williams, Mireille Enos and Terrence Howard. The film was released in the United States on March 28, 2014.
During a raid on a cartel warehouse, in which Smoke is killed, the team steals $10 million of the cartel’s money, hides it down in sewer pipes for later collection and splitting amongst themselves, and blows up the rest of the cartel’s cash to cover their tracks. However, the money disappears, and their superior Floyd Demel (Martin Donovan) finds out about it and suspends them for several months, during which they are investigated for the theft. With no concrete evidence of their participation, however, Demel reinstates them.
Breacher later finds out that Lizzy has become addicted to drugs and that her marriage to Monster is failing. Pyro is killed when his trailer is rammed by a train, after someone drives it onto the tracks while he’s unconscious. Atlanta Police homicide detective Caroline Brentwood (Olivia Williams) and her partner Darius Jackson (Harold Perrineau) are assigned to the case and interrogate Pyro’s teammates.
Brentwood notes Neck is aggressively avoiding interrogation, and Breacher accompanies her to his house in the hopes of getting him to cooperate. When they arrive, they find him nailed to the ceiling and disembowelled. Brentwood recognizes the execution as the modus operandi of the cartels, leading Breacher to assume the cartel is hunting them down over the stolen money.
Breacher and Brentwood visit Tripod, who left the DEA after being suspended, and find him dead after a shootout in which he killed an assailant Breacher identified as a cartel enforcer. Monster later visits Brentwood, who is suspicious of Breacher, and tells her that Breacher’s family was kidnapped by the cartels, who videotaped their murders and later sent the tape to Breacher along with the severed body parts of his wife and son. Breacher spent months searching for his family’s killers before the team convinced him to move on. Brentwood apologizes to Breacher, and they wind up having sex.
Sabotage
Directed by: David Ayer
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Worthington, Terrence Howard, Mireille Enos, Olivia Williams, Angela Kerecz
Screenplay by: Skip Woods
Production Design by: Devorah Herbert
Cinematography by: Bruce McCleery
Film Editing by: Dody Dorn
Costume Design by: Mary Claire Hannan
Set Decoration by: Jennifer M. Gentile
Music by: David Sardy
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence, pervasive language, some sexuality/nudity and drug use.
Studio: Open Road Films
Release Date: March 28, 2014
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