This time it's Hackberry Holland, onetime Texas Ranger and on - again, off - again drunkard, whose backstory is on view, as Hack launches a quest of Arthurian proportions to save his son from
an evil arms dealer.
The plot, essentially, is that
an evil arms dealer named Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman) takes captive a female secret agent (Keri Russell) whom Cruise's character, Ethan Hunt, had trained and loves «like a little sister.»
Not exact matches
«He's an
evil genius, kind of like a Bond villain, but also a gourmet chef,» Gibson said, adding some extra descriptors to his role as an
arms dealer looking to launch a weapon into space, to the obvious disagreement from the U.S. government who hires Machete (Trejo) to stop him.
T'Challa is also intent on confronting the
evil South African
arms dealer Ulysses Klaue (Serkis), who was responsible for T'Chaka's death.
While «The Last Jedi» explores the push - pull between good and
evil, its scorn is reserved for
arms dealers and those who profit from war, and there's one eat - the - rich sequence where the greedy are trampled inside a plush casino.
In order to hack into, what else, a giant battleship, the two young recruits are first dispatched to a nearby planet with a lavish casino run by rich
arms dealers — who, it turns out, profit from supplying weapons to both sides of the galaxy's seemingly eternal good - versus -
evil conflict.