The Last Stand (2013 film)

The Last Stand is a 2013 American action film directed by South Korean film director Kim Jeewoon in his American directorial debut. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Forest Whitaker, Johnny Knoxville and Rodrigo Santoro. This was Arnold Schwarzeneggers first lead acting role since 2003s TerminatorRise of the Machines. The film was released in the United States on January 18, 2013. The film focuses on a tough small town sheriff and his deputies who must stop a dangerous drug lord from escaping to Mexico in a modified sports car.

One night, international drug lord and racing car driver Gabriel Cortez Eduardo Noriega makes a daring escape from FBI custody in Las Vegas and speeds off in a modified Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1, taking Agent Ellen Richards Gnesis Rodrguez as his hostage as he races southbound toward Mexico at speeds over 200mph. Agent John Bannister Forest Whitaker has a blockade set up in Bullhead City, Arizona, but Cortezs men mow down the police officers on site and clear the road for him to continue his getaway. Cortez also uses his extraordinary driving skills to immobilize two SWAT vehicles headed toward Summerton Junction. Before flying to Arizona, Agent Bannister has his team do a financial background check on all agents involved to find out how Cortez managed to escape so easily.Sometime past 430 in the morning, Owens dispatches deputies Jerry Bailey Zach Gilford and Sarah Torrance Jaimie Alexander to visit the residence of the local farmer Parsons Harry Dean Stanton, who has suddenly missed his usual milk delivery at the diner. After discovering that Parsons has been murdered, the deputies follow a trail of tire tracks that lead them to Cortezs henchman Thomas Burrell Peter Stormare and his mercenary cutthroats, who are planting a mobile assault bridge across the canyon that marks the U.S.Mexico border. Bailey is fatally shot in the middle of a shootout between the deputies and the thugs before Owens rushes in to bring his officers back to his precinct. Shortly after being notified by Agent Bannister of Cortezs presence, Owens gathers Torrance and senior Deputy Mike Figgy Figuerola Luis Guzmn. He also deputizes jailed local Frank Martinez Rodrigo Santoro, a former US Marine of the Iraq War with PTSD who developed a streak of never finishing what he started because Bailey was his friend, Martinez insists that he will not falter. Finally, Owens recruits Dinkum to protect their town. Dinkum agrees only if he becomes a deputy and if he keeps the gun Owens had confiscated ear

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