Trama

Bishop's most formidable foe kidnaps the love of his life in order to make him complete three impossible assassinations and make them look like accidents.

Arthur Bishop, the master assassin who faked his death in hopes of putting that part of his ;life behind him, now lives a quiet life in Rio. But someone who knows who he is shows up and tells him, that if he wants to continue living this life, he will do three jobs for someone. Bishop tries to tell them he has the wrong man but they know who he is and if he won't do the job, they will take him but he gets away. He then goes to a resort in Thailand run by a friend, Mae, where he tries to find out who is looking for him. Later a woman named Gina shows up looking for medical assistance and Mae can't help but notice bruises all over her body. Mae deduces she's a battered woman and when Mae hears her being beaten, Mae asks Bishop to help her. He goes and kills the guy she's with. He kills the man and then sets fire to the boat he's on. But he sees that Gina has a photo of him. He deduces that the one who wants him, sent her. He confronts her and she admits that she works at a children's shelter in Cambodia and that someone told her if she didn't do what he said, the children would be endangered. While waiting for the man to come, they get close. And when the man's people comes, they grab them. Bishop is brought to the man who wants him to do the jobs and he tells Bishop that if he doesn't do it, Gina will be killed. So Bishop has no choice but to do it.—rcs0411@yahoo.com

Living under a new secret identity, the now-retired and once-hardened elite hit-man, Arthur Bishop, has found shelter in bustling Rio de Janeiro. However--under the serious threat of being exposed by his arch-nemesis, Riah Crain--Bishop will have no other choice but to agree in performing three impossible suicide missions across the four corners of the earth, to finally get off the hook. Now, time is of the essence, as Crain's outrageous ultimatum is no joke. Undoubtedly, this assassin's killing days are not over; nevertheless, can Bishop do what he does best without losing a new-found love?—Nick Riganas

After faking his death, Arthur Bishop has been living quietly in Rio DE Janeiro with the name Santos. He is approached by Renee Tran, who knows his true identity and explains that her employer wishes for Bishop to kill three targets and stage them as accidents. Seeing her mercenaries waiting nearby, Bishop makes his escape, and flees the country to Thailand. He takes shelter at the resort island beach house of his friend, Mei, and learns that Tran is working for Riah Crain..

Arthur Bishop has been living in a yacht at Marina da Gloria in Rio de Janeiro for five months after the discovery of his hideout in New Orleans. While having lunch at Sugar Loaf's restaurant, a woman comes to his table and says that her boss, Crain, wants him to kill three targets. Bishop reacts and fights several men at the restaurant, but succeeds to escape. He goes to Thailand where his friend Mei takes care of his house in an island. When Mei sees a man named Frank hitting the young woman Gina in his yacht, Mei asks Bishop to help her. He fights the man and accidentally kills him. Soon Gina tells him that Crain forced her to meet and seduce him since he wants Bishop to kill three men. They have a romance but Crain's minions attack Bishop at the beach and kidnap Gina. Now Bishop is forced to meet Crain, who is his long-time acquaintance, and to kill three men impossible to be reached to rescue Gina.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

After faking his death, Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) has been living quietly in Rio De Janeiro with the name Santos. Arthur works as at the docks as a yacht worker and even has his own small boat. The boat is rigged with remote detonated explosives, as an insurance against unwanted intrusion.

Arthur is approached by Renee Tran (Rhatha Phongam), who knows of his true identity and explains her employer wishes for Bishop to kill three targets and stage them as accidents. If Arthur was to refuse, his identity and location would be released to interested parties who would love to see Arthur dead.

Seeing her mercenaries waiting nearby, Bishop makes his escape and flees the country to Thailand. As men come snooping around his boat, Arthur blows it up and leaves no trace behind of his life and existence in Rio. Bishop had planned for this eventuality and had a stash of fake passports, mobile phones, arms and currency in a hidden shed. Bishop discards all traces of his identity and burns it while acquiring a new one to get out of Rio.

He takes shelter at a resort island beach house of his friend, Mei (Michelle Yeoh), and learns that Tran is working for Riah Crain (Sam Hazeldine). Bishop and Crain were orphans that grew up together but later sold to a gangster and trained as warriors. Bishop made his escape and left Crain behind. The gangster blamed Crain who took it out on him by payments in blood. In turn, Crain blamed Bishop for his misfortune.

Sometime later, a bruised woman, Gina Thornton (Jessica Alba), approaches Mei for first aid before returning to a boat anchored nearby. Mei observes Thornton being beaten by a man aboard the boat and alerts Bishop. Bishop and Mei rescue Thornton from the man, but in the scuffle, the man hits his head on the boat's equipment and dies. Finding no evidence of his identity, Bishop sets the boat ablaze.

While Mei tends to Thornton's injuries, Bishop finds that Thornton is also connected to Crain as she had a photo of Bishop on her mobile phone, and believes Crain anticipated Bishop would become romantic with her. Crain would then have kidnapped her to make Bishop take the assassination jobs. When he charges Thornton with his theory, she reveals that Crain threatened the children's shelter in Cambodia that she worked at unless she participated. Over the next few days, Bishop does get to know Thornton better.

Thornton was a military operative in Afghanistan, but she left the war zone to offer humanitarian aid in Cambodia. Thornton believed that too many innocent people were being caught in the line of fire. She started running a shelter in Phnom Penn for victims of human trafficking. Crain killed one of Thornton's staffers and relayed a warning about what he could do to everyone at the shelter if she did not cooperate.

Bishop falls in love with Thornton, but as expected, Crain's mercenaries soon arrive and abduct the two. Just prior, Bishop had given a watch to Thornton claiming that it belonged to his father and is the only memory that he has left of him. He wanted Thornton to have the watch as a token of his love.

Thornton is taken to Crain's private boat, while Bishop is brought to Crain himself, where he coerces him to exchange the assassination jobs with Thornton's life, providing him with the necessary resources to complete them.

The first target of Bishop is a warlord named Krill (Femi Elufowoju), who is incarcerated in a Malaysian prison. The prison is 70 miles out to sea, set off by cliff that are 100 meters high and surrounded by shark infested water. Bishop travels to Malaysia and gets himself imprisoned to access Krill. Bishop gains Krill's trust by killing a man already planning on killing Krill. Bishop then kills Krill himself by overdosing him with snake venom and escapes with the help of Crain's operatives.

The next target is Adrian Cook (Toby Eddington), a Sydney-based billionaire and former trafficker of underage sex workers. Bishop bypasses Cook's penthouse apartment's tight security, breaks the glass bottom of his overhanging pool with a tube containing chemicals, causing the glass to crack and sending him plummeting to his death.

While relaying details of the third target, Crain allows Bishop to speak over video to Thornton, who has arranged her setting to allow Bishop to identify the registration number of Crain's boat. Bishop locates the boat and attempts to rescue her, but Crain has caught Thornton's attempt in time and his mercenaries quickly stop the attempt. For his insolence, Crain demands Bishop complete the final assassination in 24 hours, identifying the target as Max Adams (Tommy Lee Jones), an American arms dealer in Varna, Bulgaria.

While planning the attempt, Bishop recognizes that Crain's targets were his only other major competition in arms dealing. Bishop instead approaches Adams and warns him of Crain's plan and gets Adams to help. Bishop reports his success to Crain, directing him to the submarine pen to find the body.

There, Bishop fends off attacks by Crain's mercenaries and makes for Crain's boat parked nearby. He fights off more of Crain's men and discovers the boat is rigged with explosives before rescuing Thornton, placing her in an underwater escape pod. Crain stops him before he can escape, and the two fight. Bishop overpowers him and secures him to the boat, when Crain reveals the explosives are set to go off soon. Instead of diving overboard, Bishop races into the boat, moments before the bombs explode, killing Crain and apparently Bishop.

Thornton is rescued and the remains of Crain's boat are salvaged with no other signs of life. Adams watches the operation from afar and sees that one of the salvaged pieces was the anchor compartment, and monitors video to see Bishop emerge from the compartment several hours later and then deletes the video to keep Bishop's status secret as a token of gratitude for sparing his life and enabling him to monopolize the arms trade.

Thornton returns to Cambodia and her teaching duties but later is surprised when Bishop arrives a few days later.