“Jack!”

From The Contractor.

Released from the Army with and honorable discharge after a new commanding officer takes over, and currently drowning in debt, Sergeant James Harper (Chris Pine) is struggling to care for his wife, Brianne (Gillian Jacobs), and son, Jack (Sander Thomas). When he reconnected with an old Army buddy, Mike (Ben Foster), at a funeral, James asks for help getting in as a private contractor with a national security group. Mike takes James to meet his boss, Rusty (Kiefer Sutherland) who offers James a job that promises lots of action, money, support, and meaning. For his first assignment, James is sent to Berlin to survey a virology professor Salim Mohsin (Fares Fares) making moves against America. After watching Salim for several days, Mike and the rest of the team join James in Berlin and they pull back to prepare for an attack on the professor’s lab so they can interrogate him. While they are successfully able to infiltrate the lab, their orders to destroy the lab, recover the research, and kill Salim quickly proves more difficult. While Mike and the rest of the team take care of the lab and research, James is left to dispatch the professor, who—claiming his innocence—begs James to find his backup research in a safety deposit box. James and Mike soon find themselves in a dangerous flight from Berlin police while injured and trying to get the research to America. In an attempt to save the mission, James tells Mike to take the research to the rendezvous while James rests from a knee injury. Mike goes and prepares an extraction for James, but when Mike fails to show at the rendezvous, James reaches out to Rusty. James quickly finds out that Mike never delivered the research and James himself is being hunted by Rusty’s operatives. While fleeing and fighting for his life, James searches for the truth about Salim’s research and Rusty’s intentions all in the hopes of discovering the truth needed to keep his family safe.

This thriller is full of enough action to keep viewers engaged from start to finish. Pine is an easy lead to connect with, both as the concerned family man and the highly-skilled soldier. The plot is not overly complex and some will guess some twists before they happen, but fans of military action thriller will really enjoy The Contractor.

| Rated: R | Running Time: 103 minutes |Genre: action/thriller|

||Family Viewing||Cursing: 5* of 10|Nudity: 1 of 10|Sexuality: 0 of 10|Gore: 6 of 10

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