Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Sylver

The plot revolves around a serial killer, Maurice Sylver. Eleven years ago, Michael Armstrong killed his parents and fiancé in a car bomb. When Sylver discovered Armstrong did this, he started killing all the people who "screwed with him" usually tying them down, taunting them and then slowly killing them. He still hasn't managed to kill Armstrong, who has since become a CIA director.

Sylver has just killed one of Armstrong's janitors, Ethan, after he fails to tell him how to get to Armstrong and looks around his house, with newspaper articles about him, the police having recently incorrectly guessed his identity of his brother. Sylver is angry, wanting to take credit, and leaves his fingerprints on the janitor's body and leaves him in a park. Armstrong has just lost over fifty agents during an unsuccessful raid on what the CIA suspects to be a terrorist cell called "The Group." When his second-in-command, Claire Fry, notices that he does not care about the deaths, she quits, and on the way to a bar is stalked by Sylver, who manages to end up sleeping with her. Sylver then sneaks around her apartment and discovers the identities of five people who helped and supported Armstrong when he killed Sylver's parents and fiancé. When she wakes up, she tells Sylver that she is ashamed but Sylver comforts her and they agree to a date that night. 10 min

At the Witness Protection Program, Special Agent Isaac Langford, a cocky director, sends Agent Steven Swanson, who hates Langford deeply, to protect one of Sylver's ex-girlfriends, who Langford thinks Sylver may be after. Swanson thinks Langford just wants him out of the way and leaves Sylver's ex-girlfriend, Allison Fetcher, alone to go drink coffee, where he goes to meet Armstrong, who asks him for protection against Sylver. Meanwhile, Sylver tracks down one of the five and stabs her multiple times and flees quickly when someone hears her scream. Armstrong tells Swanson that Sylver will attempt to kill the other four and Swanson asks his friend at the Witness Protection Program, Ivy Gains, to order a team to protect them without telling Langford. Gains, however, threatened with losing a job, tells Langford, who puts Swanson on suspension. 20 min

At Sylver's and Fry's date, Sylver woes Fry, and urges her to go back to her job. When she declines, he convinces a manager at a box office to hire her, where he makes her work hard with little pay. Sylver is disappointed when Fry doesn't quit that job and hires a hitman, Ian Cross, to set the box office on fire. Cross is arrested however, and Langford and Gains interrogate him. He admits to having been hired for Sylver for a shorter prison sentence. That night, Sylver kills one of the four using a bomb, making Langford's boss angry at Langford. Langford becomes determined to protect the last three. Armstrong's new second-in-command, Olivia Gilligan, starts getting on his nerves as they have disagreements about "The Group." 40 min

Gains has the idea to lure Sylver into a trap, as to when he attacks one of the three, the Witness Protection Program will capture him. Langford's boss, Hause, agrees. Meanwhile, Swanson is tracking down Sylver on his own with the help of Fetcher, and they break into Sylver's apartment. Sylver attacks them and captures Fetcher, while Swanson escapes and calls Gains, who has left her cellphone on her desk, where Langford is. Langford blocks Swanson and hangs up. Swanson hurriedly drives to a police station, while Sylver locks Fetcher in a closet "for later." 50 min

Armstrong calls Fry and asks her to come back, but she still declines. Sylver checks her cellphone records and calls Armstrong, telling him to "watch his back." Armstrong just taunts him. Swanson trips on the road and is hit by a car, going into a coma. Fry wakes up to find Sylver gone: he has snuck out to kill one of the three. The WPP captures him, but they are too late: he severely injures one of the three, and they later die from their injuries. Sylver reveals to Gains that he hired a man to place a nuclear bomb in Washington, D.C., New York City, Seattle, Chicago and Los Angeles. If Sylver dies, they will be activated. 70 min

The WPP hands him over to the FBI, who decide what to do with him, while Fry wonders where he is. Armstrong realizes what has happened and attempts to warn Fry, but she refuses to talk to him. Meanwhile, "The Group" attacks the CIA, leading Armstrong to believe there is a mole. Gains goes to visit Swanson in the hospital. The FBI is attacked by "The Group," and Sylver escapes. A member of "The Group," Peter Winter, reveals to Sylver that his parents worked for "The Group," which was a black ops division of the CIA but now works for the UK government in the USA, Canada, Africa, Egypt and the UK. Winter tells Sylver that Armstrong killed Sylver's parents because they were holding him back from going to a higher rank in the CIA. His fiancé was just an accident. They need him to kill Sylver, as he is getting too close to them. They manage to sneak Sylver into the CIA to get near Armstrong, but Armstrong discovers Gilligan is the mole and she reveals the plan to kill Armstrong and Sylver is forced to flee. 90 min
Sylver's next stop is the hospital where Swanson is. He cuts the power, which goes back on almost immediately due to a back-up generator. This makes Swanson come out of his coma, just in time to punch Sylver and run. Sylver calls Fry and tells her he has to tell her something back at his apartment. Fry goes there and finds Fetcher's dead body, and calls the police. Sylver comes and Fry attempts to act as if nothing happened, but Sylver doesn't fall for it and hold a gun to her head and tells her to lead him to Armstrong. 115 min

The police arrive and try to capture Sylver in a car chase. "The Group" arrives and tells the police everything, but the CIA come and kill them. Armstrong runs off to the WPP, with Sylver, still holding Fry hostage, behind him. Swanson and Gains go there too, and Langford tells Swanson to go and that he is useless. Swanson snaps and slits Langford's throat. Armstrong goes to the WPP and Sylver follows, killing one of the last two. "The Group" go after Sylver and fight the WPP, and Sylver manages to kill the last one by throwing him out a window. Gains leads Armstrong and Fry out a back entrance and they attempt to escape in a helicopter. Sylver shoots it down and angrily kills Armstrong. Fry shoots Sylver in the stomach and he falls down. Swanson, unaware of the bomb situation, takes a knife and prepares to stab Sylver, despite Langford's warnings as he rushes out to stop Swanson. Swanson stabs Sylver, killing him. They are in NYC, but the bombs don't go off. Sylver is not dead, and stabs Swanson, killing him, only to be shot by a tazer by Gaines, who dies from the injuries she got from crashing in the helicopter.

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