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Assault on Wall Street (2013)
R,
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Action | Drama | Thriller
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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.