Kandahar
Kandahar
Overview
After his mission is exposed, an undercover CIA operative stuck deep in hostile territory in Afghanistan must fight his way out, alongside his Afghan translator, to an extraction point in Kandahar, all whilst avoiding elite enemy forces and foreign spies tasked with hunting them down.
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Cast
Gerard Butler
Navid Negahban
Travis Fimmel
Ali Fazal
Bahador Foladi
Nina Toussaint-White
Mark Arnold
Corey Johnson
Hakeem Jomah
Tom Rhys Harries
Ray Haratian
Elnaaz Norouzi
Olivia-Mai Barrett
Rebecca Calder
Vassilis Koukalani
Farzad Bagheri
Ross Berkeley Simpson
Lee Comley
Najia Khaan
Reem AlHabib
Fahim Fazli
Darius Radac
Crew
Dan Hubbard
Gerard Butler
Colby Parker Jr.
Jack Serino
Tom Ortenberg
Scott LaStaiti
Basil Iwanyk
Ric Roman Waugh
David Buckley
Danko Jordanov
Alan Siegel
Kimberly Adams
Vincent Reynaud
Ivailo Dimitrov
MacGregor
Dominic Gibbs
Jason Swanscott
Dian Hristov
Tom Hambleton
Joe Pancake
Andrew Neil
Hopper Stone
Dave Isern
Anita Lowe
Jason Paradis
Christian Mercuri
Miranda Davidson
Anas Balawi
Anas Balawi
Jennifer Josephson
Vishal Jain
Michael Botha
Cheryl Goodbody
Andrea Quaglio
Ali Cherkaoui
Ben Chick
Stilyan Mavrov
Elitsa Razheva
Ian Hotujac
Mike Tehrani
Raghav Khanna
Jonathan Fuhrman
Erica Lee
Patel Cyrus
Stuart Bagshaw
Mark Taylor
Beatriz Delgado
Keith Weir
Hilary Hughes
Reni Sirmina
Hassan Hajhouj
James Masciello
David Haring
Zarene Dallas
Pateel Kishmishian
Rob Moran
Alan MacFeely
Wesley Green
Simon Adegbenro
Jason Tubbs
Michael Saunders
César Villalba
Alex Stylianou
Brendon Boyea
Alayn Crespo
Yakoubi Nordine
Rory Okey
Zainab Jaye
Naoufal Lamkealal
Athba AlKhudairy
Ruzanna Kegeyan
Andrea Dimity
Mitchell LaFortune
Jules Chapman
Razanah Silawi
Christian Zollenkopf
Pati Martí Donoghue
Anna Albiach
Patricia Wheeler
Matthew Sidari
James France
Michael Coja
Raul Vasquez
Vatsal Mistry
Mouthanna Al-Sayegh
Rayan Aljowair
Maxine De Vere
Mahdi Jahangir
Louisa Kearns
Oliver Miszti
Ben Menzies
Adrian Alescio
Mathiew Chambers
Nico Di Masso
Manish Ghadge
Arkaitz Latorre
Arslan Muhammad
Jonathan Pears
The only thing more dangerous than the mission is the escape.
Tom Harris is a freelance undercover operative working for the CIA to insert malware into an Iranian nuclear research facility. Tom’s cover is a field technician for a Swiss communications contractor. His mission is successful, and the malware causes the facility to self destruct.
The Iranian government has been monitoring a British journalist in Iran. She receives evidence from a whistle blower of the CIA’s ongoing sabotage of Iran’s nuclear programs. After the facility is destroyed, she is arrested by an Iranian security agency. She tells the Iranians she suspects a link between the facility’s destruction and the Swiss contractor because their contracts are next to government sites.
Tom leaves Iran en route to London via Dubai. While in Dubai, his flight to London is delayed, and he visits his CIA handler, Roman Chalmers. Roman is a Muslim convert, living under the outward pretense of a Dubai socialite, a lifestyle he secretly despises. Roman claims to have delayed the flight to force this meeting. Tom accepts Roman’s lucrative CIA contract for a job in Herat, Afghanistan, because it will pay enough to cover his daughter’s university expenses.
After he arrives in Herat, due to an intelligence leak, the news names Tom as the operative responsible for the destruction of the nuclear facility. With his cover now blown, the mission in Herat is aborted. Roman directs Tom and his Afghan-American translator (Mohammad “Mo” Doud) to an extraction point in Kandahar. The Iranian and Pakistani security services learn Tom is in Herat, and each sends operatives to apprehend him, with Pakistan wanting to ransom Tom to the highest bidder. Tom and Mo are chased by the Iranians and a Pakistani agent (Kahil Nassir) in Herat. They elude Kahil and the Iranian pursuers and escape to the desert.
En route to Kandahar, Tom and Mo are attacked by an Iranian helicopter. Tom destroys the helicopter and kills its crew. Now on foot, Tom and Mo seek aid from Tom’s friend, an Afghan warlord not associated with the governing Taliban. Mo reveals to Tom and the warlord that the warlord killed Mo’s son years ago. Despite angering the warlord, he provides Tom and Mo with a vehicle and they depart the warlord’s camp.
Meanwhile, Roman stops communicating with the CIA and arrives in Afghanistan to join an ISIS-K unit. Tom and Mo are captured by a Taliban warlord paid by Kahil. Tom concludes his warlord friend sold him out. Roman and his ISIS-K fighters attack the compound where Tom and Mo are held captive. The Taliban warlord is killed. Kahil arrives at the scene of the battle. He realizes the attackers are Afghan SF Commandos paid by the CIA, not ISIS-K. Roman, Tom, and Mo escape by vehicle from the compound while the battle continues. Speculating that Tom will use an old CIA airbase to extract, Kahil organizes another Taliban unit to intercept Tom.
As Tom, Roman, and Mo reach the extraction point, Kahil attacks their vehicle. Roman is mortally wounded, and jumps from the vehicle to buy the rest time. Before dying, Roman severely wounds Kahil and recites the Shahada. After Kahil’s Taliban team intercepts Tom and Mo, it is apparent they will finally be captured.
However, a CIA director orders an unauthorized missile strike on the remaining Taliban pursuers. This enables Tom and Mo to escape on a British military cargo plane. Kahil apparently survives the strike. The British journalist is released while Tom and Mo reunite with their families.
Genre: Hollywood, Action, Thriller,
Released: 2023.
Director: Ric Roman Waugh.
Starring: Gerard Butler, Ali Fazal, Navid Negahban, Nina Toussaint-White, Tom Rhys Harries, Bahador Foladi, Mark Arnold, Vassilis Koukalani, Corey Johnson, Travis Fimmel