We've not actually been following Ray all this time, we've been following. You are not him," she continues, as a montage repeats several scenes we've just watched but with Rachel beating the bad guys instead of Ray.Īnd there you have it. "I don't know you," Ray growls, as Meeker shouts back: "Yes, you do, we've been talking." (Hang on.
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He makes it all the way up onto the roof, the scene with which the movie opens on, prompting Meeker to try and talk him down. On their drive back to Pittsburgh though, Ray and Rachel are intercepted by the authorities and the former finds himself running into a packed-out PNC Park stadium.
The hitman eventually tells Ray that he works for Morgan, which – you guessed it – sets Ray's focus on yet another enemy. Last person on his list? Ray or, as he states ambiguously, "the one sitting next to me" when they catch up with one another in a diner. Turns out, he and Rachel are being pursued by the same hired-gun, Amo (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), that offed Bennett and he's been instructed to take out anyone who "could implicate his employer" – which, by that point, included Shah. Ray's run-in with Shah winds up with the latter popping his clogs, but this time, it wasn't his doing. Meanwhile, back in the city, FBI detectives Sarah Meeker (Lex Scott Davis) and John Rothman (Michael Raymond-James) unearth Ray's earlier on-air warning to Keeley following a tip-off from one of his henchman, and begin trying to track him down.Īs Ray pursues Shah, Rachel contacts Meeker on the sly and begs them to lay off her pops, all the while relaying fond memories about her late mother to the uncharacteristically patient agent. He fetches Rachel and, realising the police will soon be on his tail, gets the hell out of dodge. He and Keeley brawl, and after dispatching a bodyguard, Ray suffocates him and flees the scene. While Keeley admits to "authorising a bribe" every now and then, he actually answers to chairman Vinod Shah (Raza Jaffrey), which issues Ray a new target. In the scuffle, Keeley pleads innocence over Bennett's murder and explains that he's just the face of BioPrime. Elsewhere, up-and-coming senator Diana Morgan ( The Leftovers' Amy Brenneman) announces that her campaign has partnered with BioPrime to provide affordable healthcare to the public and "clean out the rot" in Pittsburgh.ĭespite Rachel's insistence that Bennett's claims were all part of a "dead-end conspiracy", Ray infiltrates a charity event and confronts Keeley, urging him to acknowledge the damage he's done to so many people.
But his exposé will prove much more impactful if Ray tells his tragic story alongside it.ĭuring the pair's subsequent meet on a subway train, Bennett is fatally stabbed by a mysterious hitman and in the ruckus, Ray and Rachel, who had sneakily followed her father to the station, are injured.Ĭut to 24 months later, and Ray is struggling to forget about what Bennett told him. Six months after Amanda's passing, Ray – who seemingly got away with the death threat without so much as a warning – gets a call from a journalist named Martin Bennett (Nelson Franklin).īennett explains that he has enough dirt on Keeley to spark public interest in his affairs: cover-ups, offshore accounts, accepting bribes to take Spero off the market and what not. To break down its surprising – and super random – twist, as well as what the director has said about it, we have to go into some major spoilers, so you have been warned. However, when BioPrime's CEO Simon Keeley ( The Good Fight's Justin Bartha) decides to shelve the life-saving medicine, Amanda dies and it sets Ray off on a revenge mission that starts with him threatening – on live TV, no less – to kill Simon.Īs we mentioned, what follows seems like a pretty run-of-the-mill revenge thriller that plays out at break-neck speed. They've tried everything (and used up almost all of their money) in an attempt to cure Amanda, and just when it looks bleakest, Ray – and the couple's daughter Rachel (Isabela Merced) are given one last hope in the form of new drug Spero, made by a pharmaceutical corporation called BioPrime. After a cold open, the movie flashes back a vague "years earlier" to establish that Momoa's Ray Cooper is an outdoorsy family man whose wife, Amanda (Adria Arjona), is very ill. It's unexpected because, for the most part, the movie plays like a fairly standard revenge thriller after it wastes no time in setting up its premise. Sweet Girl has quickly shot to the top of Netflix's most-watched list and that's likely not just because its lead star is Aquaman's Jason Momoa, but also because of its unexpected twist.
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