Thursday, 3 April 2014

Assault on Wall Street (2013)




R, Action | Drama | Thriller  -  30 July 2013 (USA)



Assault On Wall Street formerly known as Bailout: The Age Of Greed, is a 2013 direct-to-DVD American–Canadian drama thriller film written and directed by Uwe Boll, and starring Dominic Purcell.The film stars Purcell as a security guard who struggles to pay for his wife's medical bills and loses his investments in the 2007–08 financial crisis, prompting a shooting spree on Wall Street after his wife takes her own life.
The film had a limited theatrical release on May 10, 2013, and was expanded to a wide release in the United States on July 30, 2013.

 
Background

Director Uwe Boll began work on the film in 2010 and did a lot of research into the 2007/08 financial crisis. Around this time he (Boll) spoke with victims and people affected by the crisis, and also started
talking to a professor in the bailout commission in Germany.







Plot
 
In the midst of the financial crisis, a portfolio-manager instructs his employees to neglect the best-interest of clients in order to increase company profits.
Meanwhile, Jim Baxford (Dominic Purcell), a former soldier and armored car driver, lives with his wife, Rosie, in New York City. Rosie is in the process of recovering from a near-fatal brain tumor. Their health insurance has reached its limit, and Jim finds that he is unable to afford her treatment. He decides to cash in the pension he earned from serving in the military, but learns that much of it is lost as a result of bad investments on the part of his financial advisor. In addition, he finds himself in a $60,000 lawsuit as a result of bad real-estate investments on the part of his investor. Jim borrows $10,000 from a colleague to pay for an attorney to sue his financial advisor, and arranges a meeting with an assistant district attorney to discuss wrongdoings on the part of his financial advisors. 

However, the attorney he hired claims that he is unable to do anything and the assistant district attorney is unwilling to meet with him. Jim becomes frustrated at the loss of his money and his inability to pay for his wife's treatment and their mortgage. Because of his financial situation, his employer reluctantly fires him, as the company is not willing to trust him with large sums of money.


Rosie feels guilty for the financial strain that her illness has put on Jim and, unable to cope, commits suicide. Jim blames Wall Street financiers for ruining his life. Seeking vengeance, he purchases various firearms and grenades from an arms dealer, and begins a one-man army shooting spree on the Wall Street bosses that lost his money and contributed to the death of his wife. One by one, he kills those that have wronged him. The climax of the film has Jim staging a one-man assault and infiltration of a high-rise office building to confront and kill Jeremy Stancroft, a ruthless and greedy banker who is indirectly responsible for Jim's financial situation. Afterwards, Jim makes a crafty and quick getaway to continue his killing spree of white-collar businessmen elsewhere.






Cast
 
Dominic Purcell Dominic Purcell    Erin Karpluk Erin Karpluk     John Heard John Heard
Edward Furlong Edward Furlong   Eric Roberts Eric Roberts      Keith David Keith David