Force of Nature
Came out; 2020
Time; 1 hours 31 minutes
Watched: Amazon
Rating; R for violence and pervasive language
IMDB Rating; 4.6/10
Caution; Spoiler Alert
Staring.
Emile Hirsch as Cardillo
Mel Gibson as Ray
David Zayas as John
Kate Bosworth as Troy
Stephanie Cayo as Jess Pena
Tyler Jon Olson as Dillon
William Catlett as Griffin
Jorge Luis Ramos as Bergkamp
Story Line.
An NYPD detective accidentally kills his cop girlfriend after receiving a (fake) gun run call from a project. He's later sent to Puerto Rico for work despite not speaking Spanish. A hurricane hits the island. He and his new partner take a call that takes them via a market to an apartment building with a couple of old men who'll not evacuate. Five armed men come to rob one of them of his safe's content. Shooting begins.
Thoughts.
This was a decent movie with a good storyline. There was humor, action and some thrill.
The acting was good, and it didn't come off as cheesy.
CAUTION; Major Spoiler Alert
A
Category 5 hurricane is approaching Puerto Rico and an evacuation
order is in effect. A thief who goes by the name of John the Baptist
(David Zayas) robs a old woman at a bank of a painting in her safety
deposit box and gets an address before killing her and his colleague.
Meanwhile a burned-out police officer named Cardillo (Emile Hirsch)
reports to work as a lowly desk officer but is told to go out with
another officer named Jess Pena (Stephanie Cayo) and evacuate anyone
who refuses to leave their homes to a shelter. Cardillo is very upset
about being asked to go into the field and is very cynical about the
day and he doesn't want to help anyone, but his new partner insists
that they do.
Meanwhile, a customer named Griffin at a market
buys up 100 pounds of meat, all of the meat available at the market
and gets in a fight with another customer who wants to purchase meat.
Cardillo and Pena respond after the security officer detains Griffin
and says he needs the meat for his "pet." The officers are
about to take him to the evacuation shelter, but he insists that he
needs to feed his pet cat, and that an old man and a retired police
officer are in his apartment complex refusing to evacuate.
Due
to the fact that a retired police officer needs evacuation, they
agree to take Griffin to his apartment so he can feed his pet and
they will evacuate everyone in the building. The officers arrive and
go to evacuate the retired officer, Ray (Mel Gibson), they find that
he absolutely refuses to leave, even though his daughter Troy (Kate
Bosworth) is there and is a doctor and has a bed available for him at
the hospital as she is worried that Ray's dialysis machine won't work
if the power goes out. Ray says he knows Cardillo from a police
related incident a year earlier and they get into a yelling
argument. Cardillo takes Troy downstairs to the old man's apartment,
find out that his name is Paul Bergkamp and he also refuses to leave
his home. Pena stays with Ray and tries to convince him to put in a
good word for her as she tries to get a promotion. While trying to
convince Bergkamp to evacuate, Cardillo witnesses the building
superintendent get shot and killed by one of John's men and he gets
Troy and Bergkamp to run up the stairs to Griffin's apartment. The
thieves work on breaking into Bergkamp's hefty security while some of
them go to clear the building as they saw Cardillo and chase the
group up the stairs but lose them.
When Cardillo, Troy, and
Bergkamp arrive at Griffin's apartment, Griffin refuses to let them
in as he is about to feed a huge bucket of meat to his pet which is
locked in a separate room. Cardillo eventually convinces Griffin to
let them in. Cardillo realizes that their radios are down due to the
interference from the storm to they can't call for backup. Griffin's
pet begins to try to break out of the locked room and eventually does
and drags Griffin in by his leg. Griffin has Cardillo bring in the
bucket of meat but take off his police uniform as he has trained his
pet to attack cops. Cardillo drags Griffin out and locks the pet back
into the room and Troy attends to his badly injured leg. Troy
requests medical supplies and they go to find a doctor's apartment
who Bergkamp says is in the building a few floors above them. However, the one stairwell is monitored by the thieves and the elevator
doesn't work, so they have to climb the scaffolding.
Pena,
still unaware of the thieves walks into the hallway and one of the
thieves finds her and demands that she led him to Cardillo and
Bergkamp, however Ray shoots and kills the thief. Meanwhile the
thieves break into Bergkamp's apartment and find a safe in his
basement which is flooding and work on opening it. While Cardillo and
Troy climb the scaffolding, Troy almost falls and draws the attention
of the thieves who begin shooting at them, but they miss and Cardillo
kills one of John's henchmen before they get off the scaffolding and
into the nearest apartment.
Pena and Ray decide to go after
the thieves and go to another apartment that Ray knows has a lot of
weapons. Cardillo is confronted in the hallway by a thief who demands
Bergkamp as the thieves need him alive. Cardillo fights back and with
the help of Troy, but it doesn't work. Cardillo tackles the thief
over the balcony, and they fall four floors into the concourse and
continue fighting in the rain. Ray sees it and moves until he can get
a clean shot, but Troy eventually shoots and kills the thief while
also shooting Cardillo in the leg. They finally get to the doctor's
apartment and Troy stitches up his wound. Cardillo finally tells Troy
that he used to be a New York detective, responded to a call of a man
with a gun and had his girlfriend Jasmine in the car. He goes into a
building and sees a gun barrel and shoots, it turns out that Jasmine,
who is also a cop didn't stay in the car as instructed, was the
person that Cardillo shot and killed, and that there was no gunman.
This is why he was demoted to desk duty in Puerto Rico.
Meanwhile,
John and the thieves open the safe and find it empty. The thieves
then use all of their resources to find Bergkamp as he is the only
one who knows where the art is.
Ray and Pena get to the
apartment which has a whole cache of weapons, and they stock up. However, a thief interrupts them and makes them disarm. They work
together and Pena is able to kill the thief, but Ray is shot in the
side even though he is wearing a bullet proof vest. As they try to
move, John shoots and mortally wounds Ray in the stairwell and
captures Pena. Cardillo and Troy get to Ray, and she tries to save
him, it doesn't work, and Ray tells his daughter how much she means to
him as he passes away. Cardillo and Troy make it back to Griffin's
apartment where Griffin is slowly bleeding out.
John takes
Pena to the weapons filled apartment and demands to know where
Cardillo and Bergkamp are. John reveals that the original Vincent van
Gogh painting, Poppyseeds is in the building and that is what they
are looking for. While they are in the eye of the storm, the radios
begin to work and John tells Cardillo that he has Pena, not to call
for backup and demands Bergkamp and the painting. Cardillo agrees to
bring Bergkamp to them so they will release Pena. Bergkamp reveals
that his father was a Nazi and passed the paintings to him. When they
get to the apartment, they tell John where the art is, and John holds
them at gunpoint as they lead the way. They go to another apartment
which has a room filled with dozens of original paintings on the
walls. John then shoots and kills Bergkamp, gets the keys to the
police van and steals Cardillo's uniform while the storm begins to
rage again. Cardillo convinces John that these paintings are decoys
and that the real paintings are hidden in other apartments, so they go
to find them.
Troy and Griffin leave to get medical help but
are chased and shot at by a thief and take shelter in a basement
apartment that is almost flooded to the ceiling. Troy dives down into
the water to find an exit then comes back up to help Griffin through
it. John gets taken to Griffin's apartment where there is a painting
worth $200 million on the wall. John demands to be let into the locked room and is attacked and killed by Griffin's pet tiger as he
is wearing a police uniform.
Afterwards we see Griffin in the
hospital with Troy as his doctor. Cardillo and Pena also visit
Griffin during which Cardillo asks Troy out for a date and they leave
Griffin with a painting.
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