Seized (2020)
Seized is a 2020 American action thriller film directed by Isaac Florentine. The film stars Scott Adkins and Mario Van Peebles and follows the former special agent who must eliminate three crime syndicates of highly skilled criminals in exchange for his son who is kidnapped.
Plot
Former special forces agent Nero, has moved to a beachside in Rosarito Beach in Baja California with his son Taylor. His wife died some time ago. One day, Nero is shot by a dart gun and as he awakens, he finds that his son has been kidnapped. He receives a call from unknown man that sends him live footage of his son being held inside a truck, equipped with a tube connecting to the exhaust pipe. In order to see his son again, the man tasks him with eliminating assassins of every dangerous crime syndicates of highly skilled criminals. The man has provided him a vest equipped with body cam, weapons, and a bulletproof Chevrolet Suburban.RELATED:
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With the body cam, the man – later identified as Mzamo – along with his lover Alanza, his fellow cartel members, and a few corrupt intelligence agents led by their leader Donovan, are able to observe his activities. On his first task, Nero infiltrates a restaurant occupied by Roja and the Garza Cartel; he kills every one of them. After finishing the first task, Mzamo gives him the second target: Eliazar Machado, who is notorious for prostitution, racketeering, kidnapping and bombing. Nero infiltrates a prostitution den run by Machado, where he fights Machado’s men before killing Machado himself. When Mzamo allows Nero to speak to his son,
Nero tells him that he used to work for an intelligence agency and that name “Nero” is actually his cover name; his wife was kidnapped after someone within the agency betrayed him and blew his cover; she was killed afterwards. Nero tracked and killed the people responsible for his wife’s murder, afterwards the agency took him off duty and moved him with son down to Mexico for safety. Nero vows to find the man behind the plot once the given task is accomplished. Through the conversation with Mzamo, it is revealed that Donovan was the one who betrayed Nero and moved him and Taylor to Mexico; due of his combat skills, Donovan had planned to use Nero to eliminate crime to eliminate Mzamo’s rival organization.