Take Cover (film)

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Take Cover
Directed byNick McKinless
Screenplay byJoshua Todd James
Produced byBen Jacques
Melissa Massey
Starring Scott Adkins
Alice Eve
Jack Parr
Madalina Bellariu Ion
Nik Goldman
CinematographyRick Joaquim
Edited byLiviu Jipescu
Production
company
Distributed by
Release dates
  • 4 October 2024 (2024-10-04)(United States)
  • 14 October 2024 (2024-10-14)(United Kingdom)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Take Cover is a 2024 British action thriller film directed by Nick McKinless and starring Scott Adkins and Alice Eve. The film about a professional sniper trapped in an all-glass penthouse by a deadly rival.

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Plot

Sam, a sniper and Ken, a spotter are arguing about God while watching their high profile target on a rooftop. Sam finds a perfect shot but it hit the girlfriend of the target. He takes another shot and kills the target. Both escape from that place returns home. Sam is in regret about killing that innocent girl but Ken keeps ignoring because he thinks they are the good soldiers who works for the government.

Sam decides to retire and talks to his boss, Tamara about it. She convinces him to take one last assignment in Frankfurt and Sam agrees. Sam and Ken reaches Frankfurt but Ken is disappointed about retiring. They enter a luxurious penthouse as an upgrade from Tamara herself, seen as a parting gift for Sam while Ken remains in disbelief. The manager opens the curtain but Sam ask him to close it because he is uncomfortable. Two massage girls, Mona and Lily, joins them as a gift from the boss.

Mona is a fortune teller and she reads the palm of Sam and Ken. The manager joins again with food and suddenly opens the curtains, Sam shouts to close it but he sees a flash of sniper glass on a building opposite to him. He shouts to make everyone duck down and a sniper starts the shooting. He tries to close the curtains but the manager, a professional ninja assassin, stops him and tries to kill him. Sam manages to knock him and another assassin down. Ken makes a call to Tamara using Lily's phone and asks for backup. The assassin wakes up again and Ken throws him out of the window but he is shot by the sniper and falls down as he bleeds out.

Sam finds that Tamara is trying to kill them because she doesn't like the idea of Sam retiring, claiming that he will turn on them one day. Sam kills all the assassins and snipers sent by Tamara as means of eliminating him messily. In the chaotic skirmish, Lily gets killed while Tamara continues taunting him until Sam realizes how she was monitoring them. Once reinforcements arrive, Sam uses his rifle and several other tactics to keep himself and Mona alive despite the low chances of survival. Mona makes Sam promise to take care of her 8 year old daughter and sacrifices herself as he kills the main sniper. Ken suddenly wakes up but forces Sam to save himself after realizing he is on borrowed time. While a drone sent by Tamara is destroyed by Sam, Ken uses his last energy to help Sam before succumbing to his wound. Using an old technique from their past, Sam escapes the attack and thanks God for keeping him alive, swearing revenge against Tamara.

Later, he calls Tamara as she is waiting for her flight to Dubai in the airport. Both of them begin mocking each other until Sam tells her of karmic retribution, which she scoffs in ignorance. With the help of Mona's daughter, Sam kills her in the restroom and casually walks away with the child, hoping his path of redemption is in good hands.

Cast

Production

Scott Adkins announced that he's going to star in a film called Take Cover. Principal photography started June 19, 2023 in England. [1]

Release

Brainstorm Media and Fandango at Home will debut Take Cover in select US theaters and on VOD starting on October 4, [2] in the UK and Ireland on October 14, 2024.

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References

  1. III, Lee B. Golden (2023-06-16). "TAKE COVER: Scott Adkins Announces New Action Thriller Filming Next Week". Film Combat Syndicate. Retrieved 2024-04-06.
  2. "Scott Adkins & Alice Eve in Generic Action Thriller 'Take Cover' Trailer | FirstShowing.net". www.firstshowing.net. 2024-09-13. Retrieved 2024-09-13.