Director by Sam Macaroni ‘Blackout 2022’ is a suspense thriller starring Josh Duhamel – a towering figure who fisticuffs himself out of a nasty chase by the cartel who are after one suitcase containing documents that would oust international organized crime. With a DEA agent working two sides of the law, John Cain (played by Josh Duhamel) must rally whatever remains of his instincts from military training to find a way to trust his immediate resources and survive.
When the human brain experiences neuropathic failure and memory loss, it becomes very hard to perceive reality for the way it is. After suffering a terrible car accident, John Cain must trust himself when his memory fails and he experiences momentary periods where it slowly returns to help make sense of his current circumstances. With events occurring in quick succession, he must be one step ahead to stay alive by the end of it. With one blond woman by his side whom he does not recognize yet, this article aims at understanding Cain’s chance of staying alive even when every odd is against him and his trusted resources fail. Except for one.
Blackout (2022) Plot Summary & Movie Synopsis:
One Man Standing Against International Organized Crime
With a suitcase containing sensitive information against towering figures involved in crimes internationally, John Cain suffers a terrible car accident while trying to secure the documents. When he wakes up in the hospital, he cannot remember all the faces standing before him. His instincts are working proactively because his military training has flushed adrenaline through his system to remember how to survive. With no recollection of the past two days, he cannot be fully present. Faces, names, and voices draw a blank in his brain.
With time running out, the cartel is close at Cain’s heel because sensitive information is in the wind. Unknown to the possessor, Cain is still to gauge the precarious circumstances of remaining alive. With this suitcase deciding his fate for the next few hours, his instincts take over his system and act accordingly, rapidly adapting. Ethan McCoy, a DEA agent, visits a burnt house supposedly belonging to John Cain, an undercover Agent for the past five years. While Cain absconds with the suitcase and his house burnt down, McCoy is panicking. A blonde woman sits by John’s side and tells him she is his wife. A Mexican man walks into the room and tells him he is John’s brother named Eddie.
They share a brotherly bond but John’s antenna is overacting and tries to catch Eddie’s lies. The DEA are fervently seeking John Cain and the suitcase and luck favour them when Cain finds a satellite phone. He contacts them from a number stored safely in his wallet. McCoy tries to have the call traced but Cain knows better than to trust anyone at this moment, so he keeps the call short. The hospital he is in is not unknown to him. He sniffs around the room noticing a fake wall.
When one piece gives away, he discovers a new room leading to a secret chamber engulfed in red light. It has naked women straining and storing drugs. With arms and ammunition lying around, there are even exotic animals in cages. A secret operation within the hospital premises. The Blonde woman tried to tell John that he is part of the cartel. Now, there is proof. Although he woke up to this reality, he does not believe it to be associated with his true self. However, the next conversation he has with McCoy throws more light on his identity.
When he gets wounded again, his blonde wife tries to nurse the wound after Cain has made a quick call to McCoy who reveals to him he is an undercover DEA Agent for the past five years. He has been undercover, working with Eddie to get access to that suitcase. The car accident was an event no one predicted and hence, it made them move faster. With the whole operation hanging by a thread, Cain remains suspicious and continues trying to find a way out of the hospital while battling Eddie’s cronies who roam the hospital floors trying to kill him. Eddie is struggling to find Cain and manages to find him occasionally which always ends with bullets flying. Fragment of John’s memory begins to return in flashes. He does not react or respond but quietly takes it in. One memory is of a woman sitting in front of a sunset. He is not sure if it is the blonde woman, who claims to be his wife. Unsure of her role, she has nursed his wound. He trusts her for the moment.
After McCoy has told Cain what he must know for the moment, Cain moves quietly through the vent only to collapse on a church in one of the rooms of the hospital. Diego, one of Eddie’s guys, tells him he stole money and now even the suitcase. After killing Diego, Cain keeps his phone to tell Eddie to meet him on the roof. Eddie arranges for snipers to be present on the roof in case he is in danger. When Eddie meets with Cain on the roof, they have a conversation trying to find a middle ground. As Cain is about to recollect where the suitcase is, Eddie mistakenly gives the signal for the men to shoot Cain dead. With bullets flying, Cain escapes.
Blackout (2022) Movie Ending, Explained:
Do Eddie and Anna make it out of the Mexican hospital alive?
Cain needs to get out of this Mexican Hospital. McCoy is struggling to find a way to get Cain out of the hospital. The board at the DEA decide to burn the place down. Whereas McCoy is playing both sides of the law and needs to look out for himself. Slyly, he makes another call to Cain, who tells him he might know where the case could be. The truth is his memory can’t go back to the moment he walked into the hospital. With Cain’s assumption that the suitcase is out of his reach, he must get Eddie of his back.
McCoy tells him he will try and save Eddie but also alerts him that the DEA will light up the whole building and blow it to pieces. His best bet is to get out via the east Entrance where the sun rises at Sunrise. He needs to time his escape and he takes the blonde woman with him. When Cain has a moment to think about what he could do next, the blonde woman comes to him to tell him that she is CIA and she cannot leave him. They must work together which angers him. He demands she sit still while he gets the suitcase or settles the score with Eddie for the final time.
The staff in the hospital are currently held hostage by Eddie and his men. With one nurse in danger, Cain has been injected with a drug for his memory to recover. Dr. Garnaz, Cain’s attending doctor, is terrified and fed up with Eddie and his constant threats. With complete faith in Cain, he tells Cain that he is the only one who can take care of Eddie, who works closely with General Mondejo, the head of the army in Mexico and whose suitcase Cain has in his custody. With everything tied up and slowly beginning to make sense, Cain keeps seeing a woman sitting on a sofa at a beach at sunset.
Cain calls Eddie on the phone and tells him to finish this on the last floor of the hospital. When they both finally face each other, bullets fly and they engage in a nasty fistfight leaving both of them bloody and close to death. When Eddie delivers the last blow to kill Cain, someone shoots ten bullets through his upper torso. The Blonde Woman has shot Eddie and has the suitcase with her. At that moment, Cain sees the face of the woman in his vision. It is the woman he is with now. His wife. She slowly helps him up after he kisses her and they have a moment. They manage to get out of the hospital and McCoy meets with the two of them in his car.
McCoy identifies what is in the suitcase and somehow, Cain is still not fully convinced about his true intentions. After McCoy tells him the sensitive information in the suitcase will never see the light of day, Cain feels protective of the suitcase. With Anna, the blonde woman holding a gun to his face, he feels momentarily betrayed. When the driver of the car forcefully tries to pull at the suitcase, McCoy admits he is a rat and working both sides. Within a fraction of a second, everyone’s guns come out. Suddenly, it all seems out of place. The next second Anna shoots the two DEA agents sitting behind them and then the driver leaving McCoy and Cain alive. She was never on anyone’s side except Cain’s. Cain shoots McCoy in the gut and gets out of the vehicle to leave him to die in the car. Cain and his wife, Anna escape with a suitcase filled with names, faces, and institutions involved in international organized crime.
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