Somewhere in Southeast Asia, the prime minister is in a meeting with a
diplomat Moments later, gunshots are heard
A security agent runs toward the sound and sees both the prime minister and diplomat
dead, murdered by a group of rebels The man encounters the rebels but he realizes
that he is outnumbered then he grabs a dagger and slashes his own
throat 17 hours earlier, Jack Dwyer is taking his
wife Annie and daughters Lucy and Beeze on a trip to the same Southeast Asian location
where he will start working for a new company called Cardiff
On the plane, the family meets a man called Hammond
Beeze asks him about the scars on his hand and face
He claims they came from a tiger fight, in which he pulled out the tiger's tooth, and
from falling down the stairs respectively Once everyone gets there
Hammond offers to share a ride with them provided by his friend Kenny Roger
which he says is his nickname because he looks like the singer
The family make it to their hotel Jack finds Annie crying in her room, unhappy
about uprooting their lives here He tries to turn on the TV but learns from
the clerk downstairs that all the cable and internet across the
city is down The next morning, Jack tries to get a newspaper
and The clerk tells him to go to a nearby store to find a newspaper
Jack walks to the store and the clerk there sells him an American paper from three days
ago When Jack walks outside, he sees a huge mob
of armed civilians walking toward an equally large group of police in riot gear
One civilian throw a rock, and the cops start shooting at them
Jack is caught in the middle of the chaos and runs toward safety
Everywhere he runs, he finds rebels killing innocent people
he runs back to the hotel and sees the rebels taking a man that also works for Cardiff
and they execute him Jack is spotted until he climbs up a fire
escape and evades the rebels he runs back to the hotel and sees the rebels
have started breaking in and are killing the staff and other guests
He runs back to his room to get Annie and the girls
but Annie says that Lucy went to the pool Jack runs to get her while Annie stays in
the room with Beeze The rebels are knocking down doors and storming
into rooms to kill foreigners Annie holds the door back while telling Beeze
to stay hidden Meanwhile, Jack finds Lucy and grabs her just
as the rebels start running into the place Jack runs back toward the room and is almost
attacked by a rebel until Hammond comes in at the right moment to kill him
and He tells Jack to take his family to the roof
Jack gets Annie and the girls up to the roof where other foreigners are gathered
Outside the hotel, the rebels are chanting "Blood for water"
due to Cardiff taking over the water supply leading to the military coup
A helicopter then flies up over the roof, making everyone think that they're being rescued
Unfortunately, the helicopter is carrying more rebels
Jack and Annie grab their girls and run as one rebel opens fire on the foreigners
As they run for cover, the helicopter gets tangled in some wires and is pulled to the
roof causing it to explode
The other rebels start to make their way up to the roof
and kill anyone in their path Jack tells Annie they need to get to the roof
of the next building which means making a huge leap
Annie hesitates but runs over and falls on the roof, scraping her knees and elbows
Jack throws Beeze without warning, but Annie catches her
He is about to throw Lucy next, but she stops him mid-toss
and nearly causes both her and Jack to fall over the building
until he pulls her up Lucy gets thrown and Annie catches her
and then Jack makes his leap They get inside the building, but the rebels
start attacking it with a tank Jack gets his family hidden as the rebels
continue killing people he assures the girls that he loves them
A rebel walks into the room as it's become quiet
He spots Jack and starts to call to his comrades but Jack tackles him and tries to keep him
quiet, but the rebel continues to shout leaving Jack with no choice but to bludgeon
the man to death As nighttime comes
the family disguises themselves and makes their way toward the American embassy while
trying to remain undetected They ride past a mob of rebels and get knocked
down, but still manage to ride on safely They reach the embassy, which has a blockade
on both sides Jack climbs over and sees all the Americans
dead The rebels run out of the embassy as it explodes
and Jack runs back to his family The family searches for shelter in a Buddhist
shrine after pleading with the caretaker to let them stay
But predictably, the rebels show up They kick the caretaker around and then try
to find the family Jack sees one rebel left his gun unguarded,
so he tries to go for it When it looks like he's about to get caught,
Annie stands up and calls attention to herself The rebel leader punches her until Hammond
shows up in the nick of time He and Kenny kill the rebels except for the
leader who gets away Hammond takes the family to a secret place
he explains to Jack that the people he works for are responsible for bringing American
companies like Cardiff out there to control the water supply
so Hammond feels he must redeem himself by helping the family
He tells them that they need to take a boat toward the Vietnamese border where the rebels
cannot touch them As the group makes their way to their destination
MORE rebels attack from a gun tower nearby The family gets away, but Kenny is killed
while Hammond shoots and kills most of the rebels, he gets wounded
and he tells Jack to keep going, a rebel comes riding in a truck
although Hammond is dying, he musters enough strength to shoot the truck, but it plows
into him and crashes The family makes it to the riverbank where
Jack trades his watch and shoes to a fisherman for his boat
MORE REBELS SHOW UP and Annie and the girls hide
Jack fights back, but he gets overpowered and is nearly executed but is just shot in
the arm Lucy runs toward him, and the rebel leader
grabs her He gives her a gun and forces her to shoot
her dad and he holds a gun to her head as an incentive
Annie runs in and whacks the leader over the head and beats him to death
while Jack grabs the gun and kills the rest of the rebels
The family gets on the boat where Jack and Annie paddle toward the Vietnamese
border The troops spot them and order them to stop
but Jack says he will not and pleads them to let him and his family in
another group of rebels show up in a truck and drive near the family
Before they can do anything, the boat passes through the border
officially entering Vietnamese territory and The troops ordered the rebels to stand down
finally the family's trouble ended The family are recovering in a hospital bed
together Lucy asks her parents to tell the story of
how she was born Jack says how he told Annie to push until
Lucy came out but she didn't start breathing when the doctors
spanked her Annie had told Jack to speak to Lucy since
she would know his voice Jack spoke to her until she started breathing
Jack then holds his family closely