Guardians 2

Guardians 2 is a 2017 American action thriller written and directed by Matt Reeves starring Anthony Mackie, Ron Perlman, Edward James Olmos, Richard Dreyfus, Keith David, Rodrigo Santoro, Paul Bettany, Emma Watson, Irrfan Kahn, Manu Bennett, Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Will Smith. The film was scored once more by John Debney. It was a sequel to Guardians.

Plot
The story takes place across two separate arcs, one recounting events in the 1980s, and the other following characters in the year 2014. Whilst it continues the saga of certain main characters introduced in the original Guardians, both arcs take place several decades after the conclusion of the first game.

In the year 2014, U.S. Special Forces operatives led by Jacob Williams (Anthony Mackie) and his partner, Charles "Charlie" Anderson (Ron Perlman), arrive at "The Vault", a top-security location home to an aged Bob Gilmore (Richard Dreyfus), whom they suspect possess vital information on the whereabouts of Manuel Barros (Edward James Olmos). Bob concedes that Barros has recently visited him, and shows them a locket that the latter had left behind. Richard then narrates several covert missions undertaken during his military career which span their previous encounters.

According to Bob, by 1986, John Williams (Will Smith) had effectively retired from active duty to pursue an obscure existence in Alaska with his son, the seven-year-old David (Tylen Jacob Williams). Their shaky relationship is strained further when John is solicited by his former handler, Richard Parker (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), seeking to recruit him for an assignment in Cuando Cubango during the height of the Angolan civil and South African Border Wars. Anatoli Rossovich (Manu Bennett) had disappeared with his men while aiding Jonas Savimbi (Djimon Housou) UNITA's rebels against Angola's Marxist government; their actions have already been disavowed by the CIA and Parker hopes to rescue any survivors. With UNITA's assistance, John, Parker and Rossovich recover a file in which they discovers that Bob Gilmore (Thomas Jane) is alive following his presumed death at the hands of Hutchel Nevsky, subsequently locating a terrorist named Manuel Barros among a contingent of Brazilian military advisers. However, a firefight breaks out, and their quarry escapes as the Americans are rescued by helicopter. It is revealed that Barros is responsible for holding Bob captive after his supposed death.

In light of this information, John, Parker and Rossovich begin tracking Barros, who has established himself as a primary arms dealer for bush conflicts in Southern Africa and Latin America. Later in the year, the CIA authorizes a strike against the unscrupulous Brazilian, now making a healthy profit running arms across Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, John, Parker, Bob and Rossovich assist the Mujahideen in their battle against the Soviets, along with Chinese operative Chin Liang (Aaron Yoo). Bob and John find Hutchel Nevsky (Igor Jijikine), who had survived the grenade incident with Bob in Vietnam, causing John to see the numbers and hear the voice of Ivan Petrov once again.

Nevsky is interrogated by the group, with Rossovich impaling Nevsky's right eye as a act of revenge. John inordinately kills Nevsky by Ivan's orders inside his head, thus, not finishing the interrogation. After his death, the Mujahideen are revealed to be allied with Barros, and double-cross John, Bob, Parker, Rossovich, and Liang. The five are beaten, tied, and left for dead in the middle of the desert, unconscious until rescued by two unknown civilians, one of whom John see as Ivan Petrov (Gary Oldman).

At this point, Manuel's motive for his seemingly senseless vendetta against the West become clear: his sister Maria (Alice Braga) was grievously injured in an act of arson committed by American businessmen for insurance money. The Barros clan, which dominates a powerful drug cartel, was again rocked by loss when the CIA sanctions the assassination of Manuel's father. An embittered Barros now considers the conflict to be personal, but his one-man struggle against the West is interrupted when John, Parker, Rossovich, a recently back Bob, and local security forces raid his headquarters in Brazil; an enraged Bob inadvertently kills Manuel's sister, Maria with a grenade.

Faking his demise with the assistance of Brazilian president Getúlio Vargas (Tony Ramos), Barros lives to retaliate against those he holds personally responsible for his sister's death. During the 1989 invasion of Panama, he kidnaps Parker, Rossovich, John (and his son, Joshua), using them as bait for a trap. He then uses Parker to mislead Bob, manipulating him into shooting John and Rssovich instead of himself. It is revealed that Barros had used moles within the CIA. In the ensuing chaos, Barros slashes Parker in half and cripples Bob. Unsatisfied with his revenge, Barros allows Bob and Joshua to live, promising to return to complete his revenge when the time is right.