The movie begins as we are introduced to the
protagonist named Chev. Chev is a skilled
assassin who specializes in killing elite
and powerful people. He works for Carlito,
an authoritative ringleader of an enormous
Mexican cartel. At Carlito’s request,
Chev had assassinated Kim, a Chinese competitor
of his employee, which earned him many angry foes.
One morning, Chev gets out of bed and immediately
starts to experience some severe symptoms. His
vision is blurred, and he can barely walk
as he staggers to his living room. There,
he finds a video disc and plays it on his
TV. On the tape, Ricky, a fellow hitman,
delivers a message to Chev. Ricky reveals that he
injected the assassin with a toxin in his sleep,
and discloses that the poison
would kill him within an hour.
Chev is outraged at hearing the news, and destroys
the TV in frustration. He immediately races to
his car and speeds to a nearby club to look
for Ricky. On his way there, he calls Kaylo,
his street informant, and asks him to find the
missing hitman, to aid him enact his revenge.
While on the steering wheel, Chev’s heartbeat
gradually slows down as he struggles to keep
his eyes open. Luckily, he manages to
reach the club and barges past the door.
Chev immediately seizes the club’s owner,
and holds him at gunpoint. The assassin
asks about Ricky’s current location, but the
owner calmly explains that he doesn’t know.
Chev is disappointed at his answer and returns
to his car as he speeds off. A few minutes later,
he calls his doctor named Miles. Chev explains
his situation to him and details the symptoms he’s
experiencing. After some thought, Miles reveals
that Chev was injected with a poison known as the
“Chinese Cocktail.” The toxin is extremely fatal
and shuts down adrenaline production in the body.
Miles advises Chev to keep moving to
increase his body’s adrenaline production,
as failure to do so would result in immediate
death. The doctor also tells him that he traveled
out of town but would return in a few hours.
Chev thanks him for his advice and cuts the call.
Right then, Chev hears a loudspeaker asking
him to pull over and spots multiple police
vehicles behind him. Seeing this, he
uses this as an opportunity to pump
up his adrenaline. Instead of pulling
over, he ignores their commands
and drives his car into a mall, as the
officers chase after him in hot pursuit.
He eventually crashes the car on an escalator
and escapes the cops through a back door.
Chev bursts out the street and races to a
nearby taxi. He forcefully pulls out the
passenger and enters as he shouts at the driver
to speed off. Inside the cab, Chev follows the
doctor’s instructions and keeps moving as he
aggressively bops his head from side to side.
After a short drive, the cab pulls over at a
nearby supermarket, and Chev quickly enters it.
He pulls the cashier across the
counter and threatens him with a gun.
Chev goes around the store and collects
a bunch of energy drinks. Afterwhich,
he returns to the cab and
heads to Carlito’s house.
There, he joins Carlito in his pool
and converses with the cartel lord.
Chev discovers that Carlito is aware of his
predicament and even ordered it. It turns
out that the cartel was getting attacked by
the vengeful Chinese gang, following Kim’s
assassination. Hence, Carlito decided to have
Chev killed to make peace with the rival gang.
Chev is furious to hear this and leaves
the house as he returns to his waiting cab.
He throws the cab driver to the floor and steals
his car as he races off with it. A few minutes
later, he receives a call from Miles, who offers
him more tips to combat the poison. The doctor
tells him to get some shots of epinephrine, a
synthetic version of adrenaline, from a hospital.
Chev thanks the doctor for his help and
cuts the line as a call from Kaylo comes in.
The informant tells him that he spotted Ricky’s
brother, Alex, in a nearby eatery and asks Chev
to come to the location. Chev is delighted by
the news and instantly heads to the restaurant.
He patiently waits outside the premises for
Alex and immediately attacks him as the man
steps outside. Chev amputates Alex’s hand
with a butcher knife and knocks him to the
ground. The assassin grabs Alex by the collar
and asks him about Ricky. Despite his injuries,
Alex refuses to snitch on his brother
and instead, tackles Chev to the ground.
Kaylo comes to Chev’s rescue and hits Alex
on the head with a wooden stick. Alex is
distracted by the informant, and Chev seizes
the opportunity to shoot him from behind.
A few minutes later, Chev enters a
hospital and disguises himself as a
patient. He walks calmly down a hallway,
but spots a pair of officers in a ward
and immediately sprints off. The officers
closely tail him. However, Chev manages to
stay ahead of them as he dodges some obstructing
patients and races down a flight of stairs.
He sights a group of medics carrying a
patient on a stroller and rushes after
them. He seizes a nurse and holds him at
gunpoint as he asks for an epinephrine shot.
The nurse is frightened and frantically
searches the stroller cart for the drug.
Luckily, he finds the vial and hands
it to the hitman, who snatches it.
Chev feels his heart rate gradually slowing down,
and devises a crazy plan to get it pumping. Chev
asks the nurse to shock him with a defibrillator,
but the medic is hesitant to do it. However,
when Chev points a gun at him, he succumbs to
his demands and blasts him with the device.
The shock is immense and throws Chev
backward as he falls into an elevator.
The officers approach the elevator door to
arrest Chev but the hitman shoots at them,
as they retreat and hide behind a wall.
Chev throws a patient out of the elevator,
and shuts the doors as he heads
downstairs to finalize his escape.
While the elevator goes down, he uses a syringe
to draw from the vial and injects himself. Sadly,
he takes an overdose of the drug and immediately
goes into overdrive, as he runs around the city
hyperactively. He eventually stops when
he sees a crowd watching TV on the street,
and discovers that the police have
launched a city-wide search for him.
Meanwhile, Ricky gets word of his brother’s death
as his men deliver Alex’s decapitated hand to him.
Ricky is livid to discover
that Chev is responsible,
and decides to find and permanently kill him.
In the other end of the city, Chev is concerned
about his girlfriend, Eve, and calls to check
on her. He is relieved to hear her voice,
and tells her he’d be at her house shortly.
An unsuspecting Eve doesn’t think much of it
and kisses him goodbye as she cuts the call.
A minute later, Chev spots a policeman on a bike
and grabs his gun as he threatens the officer
to back away. Chev steals the bike and taunts
the cop by driving around in circles
before ultimately speeding to Eve’s house.
There, he urges her to get dressed, and
the couple heads out of the apartment.
Outside, he spots one of Ricky’s men
and trips Eve’s bag to distract her.
While she picks it up, Chev attacks the thug
and snaps his neck, before dumping him in
a nearby pool. Chev returns to Eve, and the
couple goes downtown to a local restaurant.
While they wait for their meal, Chev reveals
to Eve that he is a professional assassin.
He explains his current situation to her, and
informs her that she is in grave danger. Eve is
startled to hear this and believes Chev made the
story up to indirectly break up with her. Livid,
she storms out of the restaurant
while Chev closely follows her.
He grabs her hand but immediately feels his
heartbeat slowing down as he drops to the floor.
To kickstart his heart, Chev asks Eve to pump his
adrenaline by doing “an activity” in the middle of
the street. Eve initially refuses and calls him
crazy, but gets turned on when he kisses her.
Eventually, the couple passionately do “that
activity” while the staring crowd cheers them on.
Right then, Chev receives a call from Kaylo, who
informs him that Ricky is at a nearby warehouse.
Hearing this, Chev pulls his pants
back on and kisses Eve goodbye
before heading off to the revealed
location. Eve also puts on her
clothes as the spectators disperse and
continue with their respective lives.
When Chev reaches the warehouse, he
finds Carlito’s men waiting for him,
and discovers that Kaylo is dead.
Chev realizes that his boss, Carlito
ordered his assassination, as the thugs
tortured Kaylo to lure him to the warehouse.
An agitated Chev shoots and kills two of the
men as a gunfight ensues. A few moments later,
Chev spots Eve in the building’s elevator
and is astonished to see her. He immediately
races to the elevator while using Kaylo’s
corpse as a shield from the thugs’ shots.
However, just as Chev jumps into the
elevator, a bullet hits him in the leg.
The couple takes the lift to the ground floor,
where a group of tailors are sewing clothes.
Chev ambushes one of the thugs and
shoves his hand in a sewing machine.
The man screams in agony, while Chev and Eve leave
the building as they drive away in a stolen car.
Carlito’s men also enter their cars,
and pursue the couple in a fiery chase.
Chev speeds away in a quest to lose
his foes, but the thugs are resilient,
and shoot at Chev to stop him. Luckily,
the shots only hit the car’s back window,
and Chev quickly returns fire. His shots hit the
men, and ultimately cause their cars to crash.
After they complete their getaway, Chev receives a
call from Miles, who tells him he’s back in town.
Chev is relieved to hear this and immediately
heads to the doctor’s residence. There,
Miles gives him an epinephrine infusion
to further stall the poison’s progression.
However, the physician clearly explains to
him that there is no antidote for the toxin,
and he’s sure to die in a couple hours.
Miles offers to give him a painless poison
to help him die easier, but Chev refuses, citing
that he still has a score to settle with Ricky.
A few minutes later, Chev calls Ricky
and asks to meet in a nearby hotel.
Ricky accepts the offer and agrees to meet
him. Afterwhich, Chev cuts the call. The
hitman kisses Eve goodbye and promises to
return as he heads for the meeting venue.
Chev loads his gun in the hotel’s
bathroom, and hides it under his coat
before entering an elevator. He goes
to the top floor and is welcomed by two
of Ricky’s men. The duo aggressively
collects his gun and ushers him to Ricky.
Chev finds Carlito and Ricky sitting side by
side on a couch. After exchanging pleasantries,
Carlito pulls out a syringe containing
the “Chinese Cocktail” from his briefcase.
Carlito asks his men to hold Chev down, as he
prepares to inject the hitman with another dose
of the poison. Thus, killing him for good.
However, before the thugs can make a move,
one of them is shot in the head. Carlito’s
gang is shocked to see this, but soon realizes
that a rival gang standing behind Chev took
the shot. When Carlito looks at the gang, he is
astonished to discover that they are led by Kim.
In a flashback scene, we see that Chev spared
Kim’s life and asked the gang leader to get
out of town for a few days. Kim obliged, and
word spread to the streets that he was dead.
However, he has been alive and in hiding, the
entire time. Hence, to show his appreciation,
Kim brought along his gang to
save Chev from his cunny employer.
The Chinese mafia opens
fire on Carlito and his men,
as the gang scatters to dodge the oncoming shots.
Ricky holds his gun to shoot the rival gang,
but Chev throws a wine bottle at
him, which chops off his fingers.
Meanwhile, Carlito hides behind a wall and
calls his pilot to land a helicopter on the
roof. A few seconds later, Chev spots Carlito as
he leaves the area and goes up a flight of stairs.
Chev closely follows the gang leader and
stops him just as he enters the helicopter.
Right then, Ricky sneaks behind Chev
and injects him with the second dose
of the poison. Carlito screams at Ricky
for ghosting him during the shootout,
prompting the angered hitman to
shoot the ringleader in the chest.
Ricky throws Carlito’s body out of the chopper
and tells the pilot to start the aircraft.
As the chopper takes flight, Chev grabs the
door and attacks Ricky. The two men have a
fist fight high up the sky, and eventually
fall from the aircraft. While in the air,
Chev grabs Ricky’s neck and sharply snaps it.
Thus, finally completing his revenge mission.
Shortly after, Chev lands on a car and
bounces off it, as he drops to the floor.
The movie ends as Chev stares wide-eyed
at the camera and blinks. Hence,
signifying that he is still alive.
