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Interceptor [2022]

Review by @sirdelly · 990d · of Interceptor

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Hello friends, I'm here with another fascinating movie I watched title Interceptor and I would like to share with you here.

The movie is about an army captain who is forced to use her years of tactical training and military expertise when a simultaneous coordinated attack threatens the remote missile interceptor station of which she is in command.

The movie begins when the United States has two interceptor launch sites aimed at intercepting any nuclear warhead launches; the first, Fort Greely in Alaska, is attacked by unknown assailants presumably affiliated with a terrorist faction.

While 16 nuclear warheads are simultaneously seized from Russian territory. The second site is a remote platform in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

A U.S. Army Captain is recently reassigned to the latter of the two interceptor missile launch sites. Following a high-profile case where she reported sexual misconduct by her superior, she experienced hazing, bullying and threats and a new deployment as retaliation.

Under Lt. Colonel Marshall and working alongside Cpl. Beaver Baker and Cpl. Rahul Shah in the station's command center, she is part of the last line of defense after the hostile takeover of Fort Greely.

The station is infiltrated by a small group of operatives led by ex-military intelligence soldier Kessel who promptly kill Marshall and the other occupants of the base, leaving only her, Shah, and an unconscious Beaver in the command center.

The infiltrators attempt to enter the command center, by which they can disarm the interceptor system and leave the U.S. open to nuclear attack from the sixteen stolen warheads.

However, they are rebuffed and attempt to forcibly enter instead with blowtorches. An operative launches a surprise attack after entering via a floor hatch but is defeated and killed by Collins and Shah.

Beaver regains consciousness and reveals himself to be an inside man for the infiltrators and motivated by a big payday and xenophobia, holding both Collins and Shah at gunpoint while allowing Kessel and the remaining operatives to enter and assume control.

Kessel hijacks a live feed and streams his manifesto about the failures in the history of the United States online, naming the sixteen American cities to be destroyed and instructing the terrorist faction to launch the nukes immediately.

Collins breaks free of her restraints and locks Kessel, Beaver, and a henchman back out of the command center while defeating and killing the lone enemy operative still in the room, and another henchman.

Kessel attempts to force her to surrender, torturing her father, but she refuses, and her father is apparently killed when the transmission is cut.

Kessel then plans to scuttle the station if he cannot take control of it. As the station begins to sink.

Shah volunteers to drop through the floor hatch to the ocean below and manually re-engage the station's hatches such that the interceptors can still launch and destroy the warheads when they eventually pass through the airspace overhead. He succeeds, but he is killed by Beaver.

Collins hides in the command center and, lets Kessel, Beaver, and the remaining henchman take over and disable the seemingly empty center.

Her ruse works, with Beaver going to check up on the station's roof to find and eliminate her, she’s able to stealthily dispatch the remaining henchman while Kessel flees the room.

Grabbing a laptop, She ascends to the roof and plugs the device in, hoping to launch the interceptor missiles manually using this method.

She is found by Beaver, and they engage in hand-to-hand combat, with her emerging victorious after using razor wire to decapitate Beaver.

Kessel, who had called in a Russian submarine to pick up the team of operatives earlier, finds her just as she successfully launches the interceptor missiles with a fraction of a second left before the nukes would have crossed the point of interception.

Find out what kessel did next on Netflix after he acknowledged that she has launched the interceptor missile, as the move gets more interesting.

Thanks for reading my post.

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