As they eat, Hammond explains that he and Kenny work for the British government. The two men take the family to a nearby brothel, which they pass through on their way to the large tower on the roof. As the group's leader is about to rape Annie, Hammond and Kenny enter the garden and shoot most of the rebels except for the leader, who escapes. After discovering the gun is unloaded, Jack is beaten and restrained. Jack attempts to steal a gun, and Annie comes out from hiding in order to draw attention away from Jack, while Lucy and Beeze hide. The rebels enter the compound and start searching for them. The family takes shelter in a Buddhist shrine garden nearby, and are protected by the old property caretaker. Upon arriving at the embassy, they find it overrun and deserted, and have to flee, but not before being seen by a group of rebels, including the leader from the hotel massacre. On the way, they manage to ride through a crowd of rebel demonstrators one man notices they are foreigners, but says nothing, upon seeing the two young children riding with him. They find a map, take clothes from the dead office workers to disguise themselves as locals, and make their way to the American embassy on a stolen moped. As Jack leaves their hiding place, he is spotted by a looting rebel whom Jack then kills, much to his, and Annie's, horror. The family remains there for the rest of the day, until nightfall with a corpse hiding them. Jack's family hides under some debris as the rebels swarm the building and murder the employees. Jack looks back and sees the rebels holding up the "Welcome" banner from Cardiff with his photo on it, realizing he is a high-value target.Ī tank targets the office building and fires into it indiscriminately. Another band of rebels breaks through the blocked door and shoot most of the survivors as Jack and his family jump onto the roof of an office building next to the hotel. As Jack's family runs for cover, the helicopter becomes entangled in electrical wires and crashes. Everyone's relief turns to horror as they realize it belongs to the rebels, who open fire on the people below. There will be no prisoners, because going to kill anyway.", "Blood for water!") Upon questioning an injured hotel worker, they learn that the rebels are protesting the foreign corporations' control of the water supply. A French hotel occupant interprets what they are chanting ("Don't resist. Jack looks over the roof anyway and sees that hundreds of rebels are gathering at the base of the hotel, and that they have seized most of the city. On the roof, other hotel tourists warn Jack away from leaning over the edge of the roof, as the rebels below will take a shot at whoever they can see. Jack's family go up there and join some of the hotel's guests and staff, who have gathered and blocked the door. As Jack returns with Lucy, he encounters a rebel in the stairwell, but Hammond saves him and tells him to get to the roof. She barely manages to keep them out of their room. Meanwhile, a horrified Annie sees the rebels going from room to room, killing the occupants. Jack barely gets to Lucy in time before rebels pour onto the pool area. Jack makes it back to his family's room, but learns that Lucy is swimming in the pool downstairs. The rebels break through the main hotel entrance and begin indiscriminately slaughtering the staff and guests. A rebel soldier spots Jack, forcing Jack to quickly climb up a fire escape and enter the hotel through a window. Jack runs back to the hotel and witnesses the rebels executing an American Cardiff employee out front. Eventually, the protesters gain the upper hand and begin killing the police. The two forces clash violently as Jack makes his escape. The next morning, Jack goes out to buy a newspaper, and inadvertently finds himself in the middle of a confrontation between armed protesters and riot police with riot shields. Later that night Jack awakens and finds his wife in the bathroom crying. He stops by the bar and chats with Hammond. At the hotel, Jack learns that the phone lines, television and internet are down all over the city. After landing, they run into a Briton named Hammond (Pierce Brosnan) who offers them a ride with him and his friend " Kenny Rogers" (Sahajak Boonthanakit), to the Imperial Lotus hotel, where many foreigners are staying. Seventeen hours earlier, Jack Dwyer (Owen Wilson), a new Cardiff employee, is flying to the country with his wife Annie (Lake Bell) and their daughters Lucy ( Sterling Jerins) and Briegel "Beeze" Dwyer (Claire Geare). After the representative leaves, a group of armed rebels initiate a coup d'état and assassinate the Prime Minister. In an unnamed South-East Asian country, the Prime Minister closes a deal with a representative of Cardiff, an American company specializing in water systems.
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