Mechanic Jack Harper (Tom Cruise) is one of the few people left on Earth, responsible for maintaining
the heavily armed drones that protect the large harvesters that are slurping up Earth's remaining water supply.
Ross assists T'Challa in saving Wakanda from Killmonger by remotely piloting a
heavily armed unmanned airship, echoing the
drones used to kill «enemy combatants» in America's wars in the Middle East and Africa.
Not simply concerned with billionaire
arms dealer - turned - metallic hero Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), Justin Theroux's story features a bevy of superheroic figures outfitted with deadly artillery, from Stark pal Lt. Colonel Jim Rhodes (Don Cheadle, taking over for Terrence Howard) decked out in his own silvery weaponized War Machine suit, to a straggly haired,
heavily tattooed Russian genius named Ivan Vanko (Mickey Rourke) who mimics Stark's tech to create an outfit equipped with energy - beam whips, to a horde of gigantic
drones programmed to kill.