The Rock (Dwayne Johnson) was in this movie
There is a woman and a man in the back of a pickup truck and a man on the drivers seat
My character in the movie isn't with them, I'm off somewhere else while they are waiting in the pickup
Something happens and a group of people think the woman (named Kate) sitting on the back of the pickup is in trouble
The driver tries to leave to avoid a confrontation, but there is allot of them and they stop them from leaving and take the girl Kate with them
I return and I am shown by the driver and man that was in the back of the pickup to a compound nearby where they took Kate to "protect her"
They are a large group of Islanders. Fijian, Maori, Samoan, or maybe a mixture of all of the above
And they are all huge
The Rock is amongst them, standing inside the compound with Kate, watching over her
I'm calling out from the gate to the compound asking to speak to her, where a massive Islander man is blocking me and pushing me back away from the gate
There is at least a hundred men inside, all standing watching, while I'm calling out to Kate to talk to her
They finally let her speak, but only to warn me that the Rock is a champion marksman, because he is standing with a bow and arrow, pulled back ready to fire, aimed right at me
I tell the driver and the man I'm with to leave
To go back to the car and wait
The man from the back of the car starts pleading with me saying "Please don't! There are women and children in there!"
My character pauses to consider what he's saying
"Please don't hurt them" he begs with me
The massive man standing at the gate laughs and says to him "Don't you worry about us. We are safe", to which he immediately and bluntly replies "NO! You are NOT!"
I finish considering what he was saying and reply to the man I'm with "I won't hurt and of the women or children", with which he concedes and quickly turns and leaves
The massive man on the gate that had been shoving me back up until then, immediately responds as well, threateningly asking me "what the ROCK you just say?"
He steps forward to grab me, but within a split second of his hand touching me, I've already punched him hard in the throat, cutting off his ability to breathe and hit him in the face two or three times hard enough for him to drop to his knees, gasping for breath
Seeing the man drop to the ground, the Rock fires his arrow, but I catch it in flight as it gets to me, spin 360 degrees and throw it back
The arrow just misses his head, but it's close enough to put a nice clean slice across his cheek and send him instinctively ducking for cover
Then my character goes on a rampage through the compound quickly and precisely killing every man there. Moving so quickly that most barely have time to realise they are being attacked, let alone defend themselves
A teenage boy goes to attack me and keeping my promise of not hurting and woman or children, I flip a hunting knife I took from one of the men around backwards and throw it as his head, so it hits his stock first and not blade first, and knocks him unconscious. He'll live
The Rock is still in cover and hiding from what is happening when my character is leaving the compound. But not before he leaves him with some final passing words
The dream/vision ends with me taking Kate and leaving the compound, with her looking back at it, as if she was sadly apologising for what happened. Like she didn't want it to happen, but there is nothing she could do to stop it
Thinking about this while waking up, I believe that this is the opening sequence of a movie where the Rock plays a very different type of hero to his normal movies
Even though I only saw the first scene of the movie, it is as if I saw the whole thing, as I seem to know that the rest of the movie would entail
It's a movie about undermining fear. Disempowering even the strongest of us
After this attack. There is a opening montage of news media, court cases, interviews with experts etc, about what is classified as the single largest mass killing spree in history
It's realistic though. Not the normal cinema "100's dead and nobody cares or notices" type of action film
News is all over it, treating it like a terrorist attack
Clips of a nation-wide manhunt, conspiracy theories about who the man is
A court case in the years to come. Realistic looking footage of a persecutor re-enacting the military precision in which the man moved through the complex picking off victim after victim with weapons (fund and knives) stolen from the men he was killing
It shows clips of the Rock as the "sole survivor" (this doesn't make sense to me, because I thought my character left the women and children alive. I guess not)
It shows how the world actually moves on and forgets about trying to find the man (or Kate and the other men) involved ...
And more specifically, how the Rock is vilified and alienated from society. How he ends up unfairly wearing allot of the anger and hatred people feel about what happened
Then after the title montage ...
It shows the Rock living as a recluse. Afraid to go out in public because of how recognisable he is, he won't even get out of his car to collect food from his friends restaurant/bar. He waits in the car while they bring it out to him. Refuses a initiation to come in for a drink while being given his food (being assured that nobody there will probably even recognise him or care), then looks on longingly at the people having fun before he drives off
It shows him researching online in the dark, obsessively, checking forums webpages and news reports for any bit of information he can find about what happened
Then also, shows him training religious, in private, away from people or gyms. At most, 1 on 1 with a instructor
The hand-to-hand combat instructor teaching him ensures him that he is good enough. That he is as good as him now and there is not much more he can teach him (It's pretty much just sparring at this stage) and the Rock disagrees, saying that he's not as good as the man from that night and he needs to be better. To which he is asked, even if he finds the man, how is ever gonna hope to confront him, when he can't even confront what's outside his door?
Then the Rock finds traces of the man online. Most specifically, a web forum post where someone posts the exact parting words that the man said to him on that night. Something that had never been made public
Then he's back with intelligence agents from some Government agency, telling them about what he had found. Pursuing the man with them, then eventually coming in to ID a man that they take into custody
A man that is actually the man they are after
There is a very surreal and dark scene where they allow the Rock to talk to the man while in custody even though he is scared. Because he feels safe, seeing that the man is in custody
But he quickly learns by talking to him, that he's not safe
The man knows things he shouldn't or couldn't know. He is playing games. He wasn't caught, he just wants it to look as though he's caught
He's come out of hiding for a reason and whatever it is, the Rock is part of his plan
I won't go into any more detail of this, except to say that it ends up with a President assassinated and a much larger plan built around the Rocks self debilitating fear
That can only be overcome and contested by him finally realising how powerful he actually is
Though .... It is far from a happy ending
It is a very dark ending. Much like movies such as Arlington Road or Usual Suspects