One Army captain is forced to use her years of tactical training and military expertise when a coordinated attack threatens the remote missile interceptor station of which she is in command.
The tough and reality-bruised Captain JJ Collins (Elsa Pataky) finds herself in charge of a lone nuclear missile interceptor base in the middle of the Pacific Ocean after she is wrongfully drummed out of her dream job at the Pentagon. When a simultaneous coordinated attack then threatens the base itself, Collins comes face-to-face with the charismatic yet crooked Alexander Kessel (Luke Bracey), a former US military intelligence officer intent on carrying out an unthinkable plan. With only minutes on the clock, Collins must utilize her years of tactical training and military expertise to determine who she can trust and stop Kessel and his covert mercenaries from completing their twisted and terrible mission.
When the American interceptor launch station of nuclear warheads in Fort Greely, in Alaska, has a terrorist attack by their own men, the platform SBX-1 in the middle of the Pacific Ocean is the only protection of the United States. Meanwhile sixteen nuclear warheads are taken from the Russian arsenal by the terrorists. Captain J. J. Collins is reassigned to the remote platform SBX-1 after a process of sexual harassment of a popular general. Collins is hated by the Army, and her fellow soldiers have humiliated and despised her in retaliation. When she arrives on the platform, her superior, Lieutenant Colonel Clark Marshall, orders her to come armed to the central station, where she will work with Corporal Rahul Shah and the obnoxious Beaver Baker. Marshall exposes that Fort Greely has been destroyed by terrorists and they are the only defense of the United States. Out of the blue, they are attacked by seven American janitors led by Alexander Kessel that kill Marshall, but Collins succeeds to lock herself with Shah and the fainted Beaver in the control room. She reports the attack to the American government and the President and now she is in charge until the Seals arrive. But Kessel and his men killed everybody on board and is opening the first access door to the station with blowtorches. The tough Collins is the only resistance to hold the station until the Seals arrive. Will she succeed?—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The US has two interceptor launch sites aimed at intercepting any nuclear warhead launches; the first, Fort Greely in Alaska, is attacked by unknown assailants presumably affiliated with a terrorist faction, while 16 nuclear warheads are simultaneously seized from Russian territory (it takes 24 mins for a nuke launched from Russia to strike US. They have to be intercepted within 12 mins of their launch, after which they cannot be defeated).The second site is a remote platform in the middle of the ocean. Captain Collins (Elsa Pataky) is recently reassigned to the latter of the two interceptor missile launch sites. Following the conclusion of a high profile case where she reported sexual misconduct by one of her superiors, she experienced hazing and bullying by her peers in the military as revenge, hence her new deployment to this remote station.
Under the command of Lt. Colonel Marshall (Rhys Muldoon), and working alongside Beaver (Aaron Glenane) and Shah (Mayen Mehta) (who only joined 6 months ago) in the station's command center, Collins finds herself as part of the last line of defense after the hostile takeover of Fort Greely.The station is infiltrated by a small group of operatives led by Alex Kessel (Luke Bracey), who promptly kill Marshall and the other occupants of the base, leaving only Collins, Shah, and an unconscious Beaver, who was grazed by a stray bullet, as the survivors, holed up in the command center. The infiltrators attempt to negotiate entry into the command center, by which they can disarm the interceptor system and leave the continental US open to nuclear attack from the sixteen stolen warheads. They are rebuffed however, and attempt to forcibly enter instead with blowtorches. The doors will hold for 30-60 mins..
Collins gets a call from general Dyson (Marcus Johnson) who says that a seal team is inbound in 90 mins. The President orders Collins to hold the command center, because the second SBX-1 falls, the terrorists will launch their nukes. Alex tries to bribe Collins with $ 30 MM, but she refuses to budge. Alex executes all surviving personnel in front of Collins, but she wont open the doors to the command center.An operative (Tim Wong) launches a surprise attack after entering via a floor hatch, but is defeated and killed by Collins and Shah. Beaver regains consciousness and reveals himself to be an inside man for the infiltrators and motivated by a big pay day, holding both Collins and Shah at gunpoint while allowing Kessel and the remaining operatives to enter and assume control.
Kessel hijacks a live feed of the Emergency Broadcast System and streams his manifesto online, naming the sixteen American cities to be destroyed, and communicating with the terrorist faction to launch the nukes immediately. On Alex's orders, one missile is launched.Collins breaks free of her restraints and locks Kessel, Beaver, and a henchman back out of the command center, while defeating and killing Kira (Ingrid Kleinig), the lone operative still in the room. Collins then fires the interceptors in time to shoot down the incoming nuke missile. Kessel kills Collins father, but she still refuses to open the doors.
Kessel turns to plan B, initiating the station's scuttling protocol, hoping to sink the station if he can't take control of it. As the station begins to sink, Shah volunteers to drop through the floor hatch to the ocean below and manually re-engage the station's hatches, in order to slow down the station's collapse, such that the interceptors are still able to destroy the warheads when they eventually pass through the airspace overhead. Shah succeeds, but is killed by Beaver.The rig will sink in 15 mins and the seals are still 17 mins out. Collins learns that Kessel is being paid to do this and a Russian submarine is approaching the rig to carry Kessel off.
Collins decides to make a play, hiding and letting Kessel, Beaver, and the remaining henchman take over and disable the seemingly empty command center. Kessel orders the remaining 15 nukes to be launched at America.Her ruse works, with Beaver going to check up on the station's roof to find and eliminate her. Collins is able to stealthily dispatch the remaining henchman while Kessel flees the room. Grabbing a laptop, Collins ascends to the roof and plugs the device in, hoping to manually launch the interceptor missiles using this method. She is found by Beaver however, and the two engage in hand to hand combat, with Collins emerging victorious after using razor wire to decapitate Beaver.Kessel, who had called in a Russian submarine to pick up the team of operatives earlier, finds Collins just as she successfully launches the interceptor missiles with a fraction of a second left before the nukes would have crossed the point of interception. His plan failed, he engages in combat with Collins, who manages to defeat and subdue him, just as the Russian submarine ascends from the sea. A pair of Russians emerge from the submarine tower, but rather than shooting Collins, terminate Kessel instead, before departing.
Collins later recovers from her ordeal in the hospital, and is personally given a promotion by the US president (Zoe Carides) for her efforts. She learns that her dad is still alive.
