John Cena, Alison Brie and Juan Pablo Raba play a game of cat and mouse in this action/comedy about a freelance journalist and her protector in a mythical Paldonia, and a coup to remove the even more mythical dictator Juan Venegas.
Mason Pettits (Cena) lives a ‘miserable’ post-military life as a lawyer with a family. He is approached by his boss, Sebastian Earle (Christian Slater), who invites him to a one-time security job where he has to protect journalist Claire Wellington (Brie) as she goes to Paldonia to interview Venegas (Raba).
After arriving in Paldonia and meeting Venegas, the group is ambushed by a coup that tries to kill Venegas, destroying the group’s cars in the process. Mason fights off the assailants and the group walks into the jungle.
Claire films her interview with Venegas and it’s time to go home, but Venegas hints at a real purpose for Mason’s job – he was hired to kill Venegas.
In one scene Wellington says, ‘I met the president of a country in the middle of a coup. This is the scoop of a lifetime,’ to which Pettits replies: ‘You gotta be alive to have a scoop of a lifetime.’ I think there’s something in that for all of us…
Will Mason find the ‘boring’ life preferable to an existence of fighting goons? Will Claire win an award for her few minutes of iPhone footage? Will Venegas be able to keep his linen suit spotlessly white?
Find out at Palace Cinemas in Ballina and Byron: palacecinemas.com.au.
