Rico says it took him awhile to get through The Veteran, because other things got in the way, but he's glad he did, even though the lack of hearing-impaired subtitles made it hard to understand... (Yes, it was in English, but in British English, and some impenetrable accents at that.)
It's about a British vet of the war in Afghanistan, who comes back to his flat in a typically-depressing British working-class neighborhood (the place makes Detroit look good) to find the drug dealers and a hidden al-Qaeda group have made things dangerous.
He's recruited to help deal with the terrorists, by recontacting a young woman who's gone undercover in the group, and has the predictable run-ins with the drug guys as well. Being a soldier, of course, he actually knows how to shoot, but there's a lot of gunplay by all concerned.
(Spoiler alert, like you're gonna see it...) The woman gets killed, a lot of the al-Qaeda and drug dealers get killed, and, in the end, so does our hero. (He has a nasty habit of getting pulled off the street by people in dark vans but, the last time they try that, it goes badly for them.)
There's a long list of British actors you've never heard of in it, but then there's a face that Rico recognized, but couldn't remember from where; turns out it was Brian Cox, who's been in Deadwood, The Bourne Supremacy, Troy, The Bourne Identity, The Glimmer Man, Braveheart, and Nicholas & Alexandra, along with a zillion other things, which is why his face was so recognizable:
20 February 2013
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