Security is an American action crime-thriller film directed by Alain Des Rochers starring Antonio Banderas and Ben Kingsley.
When a desperate for work former marine corps captain Eddie Deacon (Banderas) gets a job as a security guard at a mall, he suddenly finds his first night becomes a fight for survival when he has to protect a young witness after the military convoy that was transporting her to a trial is ambushed by a gang of mercenaries who follow her to the mall and are intent on getting in and killing her and anyone who gets in their way.
The movie also stars Katherine Mary De La Rocha, Liam McIntyre, Cung Le, Chad Lindberg, Jiro Wang, Gabriella Wright, and Shari Watson.
It was released on March 4, 2017.
Tropes for the film:
- Annoying Arrows: A female mook is shot twice with arrows (from a simple sporting bow, fired by an amateur). The first hits her in the shoulder and she pulls it out. The second hits her in the thigh, seeming to hurt a lot more. But she pulls that out too, and fights on unimpeded.
- Bottle Episode: Aside from the the beginning and ending most of the movie takes place in and around the mall.
- "Die Hard" on an X: The movie is Die Hard in a mall meets Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), with Eddie Deacon, a former marine, leading a mall cop Ragtag Bunch of Misfits into trying to keep at bay a criminal mercenary force that wants to get into the mall and kill the young witness, Jamie, that ran inside while escape from a massacre of her U.S. Marshal security detachment.
- Evil Brit: Charlie.
- Hospital Epilogue: The film ends with a hospital scene where the recovering Eddie and Jamie have a heartwarming talk.
- I Have Your Wife: Charlie threatens the lives of his mercenaries' friends, families, and even pets if they don't manage to find and kill Jamie.
- One-Word Title: Security.
- Parental Abandonment: Charlie tells Jamie how his father abandoned him on a train station.
- Tagline: "It's going to be a long night".
