| Director | Dennis Gansel |
|---|---|
| Budget | $40 million |
| Box office | $125.8 million |
Since faking his own death, Arthur Bishop has been living quietly in Rio de Janeiro under the name Santos. He is approached by a courier, Renee Tran, who has tracked him down, and explains that her employer wants Bishop to kill three targets and stage their deaths as accidents as is his specialty. Bishop escapes her and flees to Thailand. He takes shelter at the resort island beach house of his friend, Mei, and learns that Tran is working for Riah Crain.
Bishop and Mei rescue a woman Mei sees being beaten by a man aboard a boat. In the scuffle, the man's head hits a bollard and he dies. Bishop sets the boat ablaze and discovers that the woman, Gina Thornton, was planted there for him, and is connected to Crain. He concludes that Crain anticipated Bishop would become romantically involved with her, then kidnap her as leverage so that Bishop would take on the assassinations. Gina reveals that Crain had threatened the children's shelter in Cambodia that she runs unless she participated. Over the next few days, Bishop gets to know Gina better, and they fall in love. He reveals that he knew Crain as a child, as the two were sold to the same gang as kids. Crain holds a grudge because Bishop escaped the gang and Crain feels he abandoned him. As expected, Crain's mercenaries abduct them and Crain keeps Gina hostage to ensure Bishop completes the assassinations.
The first target is a warlord named Krill, held in a Malaysian prison. Bishop gets himself imprisoned, and gains Krill's trust by killing a man who attempts to murder 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, a Sydney-based billionaire and former human trafficker. Bishop bypasses Cook's penthouse apartment's tight security and breaks the glass bottom of his overhanging cantilever pool with a tube of chemicals, thereby sending Cook plummeting 76 stories to his death.
After each assassination, Crain allows Bishop to speak to Gina on video call. Gina helps Bishop to identify Crain's boat and he attempts a rescue, but Crain thwarts it. The final target is Max Adams, an American arms dealer in Varna, Bulgaria. Bishop discovers these targets are Crain's arms-dealing competition and he is using Bishop to take them out. He decides to work with Adams instead of killing him, warning him of Crain so the two can take him down together. Faking Adams' death, Bishop directs Crain to Adams' submarine pen to find his body.
At the pen, Bishop decimates Crain's mercenaries, then makes for Crain's boat nearby. Discovering the boat is rigged with explosives, Bishop puts Gina in an emergency release pod. He then overpowers Crain and secures him to the boat with a metal chain. The bombs explode, killing Crain and seemingly Bishop.
Gina is rescued, and the remains of Crain's boat are salvaged. Gina returns to Cambodia, and is surprised when Bishop arrives at her children's shelter. Adams discovers that Bishop survived by escaping in a watertight anchor-chain locker, but destroys the evidence as a token of gratitude for sparing his life and enabling him to monopolize the arms trade.