Welcome back to Movie Shortens. Follow us today to a mission of five tough guys in the movie titled:
The losers 2010. Before we start, be aware: there are spoilers!
The movie begins with an elite black-ops team talking together in the Bolivian jungle.
The group begins to play a game of cards, during which we are introduced to the members and their
special skills. They are Jensen, Roque, Poochand Cougar. The men begin to bet their weapons on
the game, with knife fighting specialist Roque wagering two large blades on his hand. However,
they are interrupted by their colonel, Clay, who tells them “it’s time”.
We then witness the team en route to their target. They are told they will be supported
by an airstrike - preferably they consider taking on 50 men armed with AK47s. But on arrival they
spot there are women and children within the camp. They recommend an aversion to the strike, but this
isn’t approved. Someone named Max is clearly unconcerned about the potential for collateral
damage and orders the bombing to go ahead. Spontaneously the team decides to rescue the kids
themselves. They drive in, heavily armed and open fire. They round up the children, free the ladies
and rally them onto an old school bus, sourced by Pooch. Clay, meanwhile, is busy freeing a young
boy being held at knifepoint. Clay is told that the boy will kill him too by the hostage taker,
before he dispatches the aggressor. On the bus, Roque enquiries as to the blast
radius of the upcoming strike. Fearing they’ll be caught within it, he urges Pooch to speed up.
The bomb drops, sending waves of a fiery explosion through the forest. The bus is
forced off the road, down a steep hill and comes to settle in a ditch. As a helicopter arrives to
extract the team, they honorably decide to let the rescued locals take their places on it.
Within seconds of getting airborne, a jet returns and shoots down the chopper.
The losers rush to the crash site. Here, we see a haunting shot of a teddy bear ablaze. Aware that
they were the intended targets of the attack, they tear off their dog tags and toss them into the
fire. They are now, officially at least, dead. Cutting to a downtown area of Bolivia,
we find Clay and Roque at a cockfight, clearly in the process of betting money.
Across the way, a camera lingers on a lady out of place within the crowd. The two soldiers leave the
venue and walk along the street chomping on tacos and discussing their next move.
While Roque is desperate to simply get home, it seems Clay has his heart set on fighting back.
Later Clay is found drowning his sorrows at a nearby bar. The lady from the stadium, Aisha,
appears and approaches him. The pair of them take shots together. As they make to leave,
it becomes clear she has a concealed weapon tucked into the back of her pants. The two of them wind
up back at Clay’s hotel room, with a bottle of liquor. However, before they can drink it Clay
senses the danger and a fight between the two of them breaks out. As they wrestle and scrap
to establish an upper hand, various items of furniture are destroyed, including the TV which
burst into flames. The encounter reaches a natural conclusion when they are forced to flee to avoid
being burnt down along with the building. Now out in the street, Aisha offers to get “the
losers” back into the states if they agree to kill Max - something she describes as a suicide
mission. Before they part ways, she hands him a card and instructs him to meet her the next day.
He does so, in a graveyard, along with his full team. She briefs them on the mission
and tells them she has the power to fund the whole operation. Although Roque is a little reluctant,
we learn that their sniper Cougar, for one, is willing to wage war on the CIA. After all,
as he says, “they started it”. Cutting to Dubai we find Max and
his right hand man meeting with a number of Indian scientists. They have created a
weapon which he wishes to purchase. One of them is reluctant to engage in a sale for moral reasons.
At the nod of Max, Wade hurls him from the top of the building, causing the others to
reconsider whether or not to do business. Meanwhile, in a warehouse near the Mexican
border we find Aisha in the company of a number of coffins.
She has successfully used these to smuggle “the losers” back into the US, alive and kicking.
Elsewhere, from a vantage point in his private helicopter, Max watches the weapon, a “sonic
dematerializer”, being tested. It successfully sinks an island without trace - an eco-friendly
weapon causing no pollution as Max notes. Later on a beach, he is discussing its usage with Wade
when a lady shading him with an umbrella stumbles. Without pausing for thought,
he requests Wade’s revolver and shoots her dead - a clear insight into his brutal nature.
On a road in the wilderness, clad in military fatigues, Roque and Jensen are feigning injury,
having requested assistance following an apparent collision. A helicopter arrives to airlift them to
hospital. However, with support from Pooch and Cougar they shoot all of the rescue team with
tranquilizing darts. They then make it away with a stolen helicopter on the back of their truck.
Back in the warehouse, Cougar is busy respraying the army helicopter to resemble a police one.
Meanwhile the rather eager Jensen attempts to hit on Aisha,
with no success. A still frustrated Roque, clearly remains distrustful of Aisha’s motives.
She tells him about both the weapon and Max’s penchant for killing,
but Roque in turn threatens to kill her. The others, however, interject.
In the next scene the group launch a well-coordinated attack on a convoy they believe
to be carrying Max. As Pooch is manning the supposed police helicopter, Wade spots him through
his binoculars. He recognizes him and opens fire, now aware of who is leading the attack.
Nevertheless, the group succeeds in carrying off the armored vehicle at the centre of the convoy
via a huge magnet suspended from the chopper. Back in the warehouse they open this up,
suppressing the troops that were inside with tranquilizers once again. But there is no Max
to be found. It is carrying a hard drive though. Despite his expertise, Jensen is as yet unable
to open any of its files without the necessary algorithm. In the aftermath of their ambush,
Clay and Roque once again verbally joust about what their next move should be, with the latter
eager to get his life back. The two come to blows with Clay punching his compatriot in the face.
A knife-wielding Roque is then held back by the other members of his team.
Later the bond between Clay and Aisha grows as we see the two of them making out.
During this encounter she warns him that, if he really fought Roque, Roque would kill him
and that his loyalty to his men is a weakness. A confident Clay, it appears, is not so sure.
The next day, Pooch forces both Clay and Roque to apologize in order to make peace.
This done, they initiate their plan to get hold of the algorithm they need. Jensen leads the way,
by waltzing into an office block and working his way to the computer he needs to access it.
Before he can get away, he is confronted by 3 security guards. However, with able
and accurate support from Cougar, he makes it away with the information they need.
Next, in a scrapyard somewhere outside of the city,
Jensen hacks the drive to find it contains Max’s millions - 400 of them to be precise. He also uses
it to pinpoint a location where it is frequently plugged in at the port of Los Angeles. The group,
it seems, now know where they can track down their nemesis.
Out in Mumbai, Wade is negotiating with the Indian scientists once again. There has, clearly, been a
hiccup making the payment. As a result, they have now increased the price to a billion dollars,
to be paid in cash. Max, we learn, is willing to meet their demands.
Back with “the losers”, Pooch is lamenting the fact that his heavily pregnant wife
may give birth without him by her side. Roque naturally encourages him to go home.
As this happens, Jensen is busy with his commuter. He notices 4 million dollars are
missing from the account, paid to a man to go to his daughter in the event of his death.
The daughter, Jensen then discovers, is Aisha. The rest of the team burst in on Aisha and Clay
who are in bed together. A gunfight quickly breaks out with both Jensen and Aisha being hit
in the arm. She is, however, able to escape, initially by hiding in the
bathroom and taking shelter in the bath. She then gets away through a shattered window.
As Max meets with the weapon manufacturer and confirms he is willing to make the billion dollar
payment in cash, “the losers” are contemplating what to do now. One by one they resolve to head to
the port anyway, with Max now on their radar. While the go-to driver Pooch waits in a van
outside the perimeter, the others break in. Jensen makes his way across container after container
with Cougar providing cover. He lets in Clay and Roque, then heads for the server. However,
it isn’t long before each and every member of the team is captured by a team of heavily armed
security personnel. This Roque assists by knocking Clay over the head with the butt of his rifle.
Roque we learn, having felt betrayed, had cut a deal with the enemy and gets to walk away.
The guards gather the now cuffed losers together in front of a container. They are,
we imagine, being executed. Pooch, resisting the order to kneel, is promptly shot in both
legs. Suddenly though, Aisha appears on top of one of the containers and fires a missile from
a bazooka prompting an explosion. This gives our heroes the chance they need to escape.
Elsewhere in the port, Max forces the scientist to arm the weapon. He then
dispatches him with a bullet to the head. He walks away carrying a handheld detonator,
with which he can initiate an outrageously powerful explosion within 10 seconds.
As “the losers" regroup and Clay makes up with Aisha, Roque is busy on his own mission. He is
having the remaining stacks of cash loaded onto a private jet. With the pilot stalling
due to the lack of space in which to take off, Clay approaches him, guns blazing. Soon the two
of them resort to hand to hand combat, with the knifeman having the better of things. Eventually
he is able to hurl his former colonel from the steps of the plane. He then forces the
pilot to take off at knifepoint. As Clay walks away, Wade is riding
towards him on a motorbike, armed and ready to take him down. Enter the sniper Cougar,
who picks Wade off in the nick of time, causing both him and his bike to crash into the jet. This
creates an explosion that stops it in its tracks and showers the proxy runway with banknotes.
Clay now heads off in pursuit of Max. He tracks him down to a pick up point, on a crane.
Here he prevents Max’s helicopter from getting close by firing several rounds
off in its direction. But, as he confronts the CIA man, he drops the detonator from the crane.
As it falls towards the water, Clay jumps down after it, desperate to prevent the explosion,
giving Max the chance to escape. In the final sequences of the movie,
we find Max wounded but alive on a local bus, where he is quickly robbed of his expensive watch
by two fellow passengers. A purposeful Aisha, meanwhile, puts her budding relationship with Clay
on ice, until Max has been disposed of. Finally, a delighted Pooch makes it to the hospital,
via a covert operation, to meet his newborn child. Finally, as the credits roll,
we find the whole crew - Aisha included - looking rather content, enjoying a soccer match,
featuring Jensen’s niece’s team. Did they ultimately get the job done?
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