This focuses on security guard Jim Baxford (Purcell), whose wife Rosie (Karpluk) is fighting her way back from a brain tumour. However, their insurance runs out, and thanks to a combination of poor timing – this being set just after the global meltdown – and financial malfeasance, led by broker Jeremy Stancroft (Heard), their savings evaporate like morning mist. The escalating debts lead to Jim losing his job, and Rosie commits suicide, presumably to stop being responsible for piling up any further costs of treatment. That pushes former soldier Jim over the edge, and he begins to take revenge on the bankers and traders he blames. At first, he picks them off one at a time, but he's building toward providing a far greater spectacle.
What's interesting here is the heroic depiction of Baxford. Boll's previous efforts have largely been neutral depictions of spree killers, though simply showing things from the killer (or killers) point of view, makes them more sympathetic than most mainstream works. This, however, makes few bones about its belief that Baxford's reaction is little short of entirely justified. The first half of the film is mostly about putting the character through so much hell, that his murderous acts in the second half – not just of those directly responsible, but an awful lot of people in the wrong place at the wrong time – seem more like the reaction of a cornered animal with no way out, than a possibly PTSD-affected killing machine.
But sometimes a straightforward polemic is just what's needed, and as a shriek of rage, it's a lot more honest than Wolf of Wall Street. Boll does a fairly nice job of making Vancouver stand in for New York [with the help of some guerilla shooting], and Purcell's physical presence – I'm sure he was a WWE wrestler in a previous incarnation – helps significantly. The usual cast of Boll regulars, including Michael Pare and Clint Howard, rounds things out. While this may be an incredible simplification of a situation which was a lot murkier and less clear-cut than portrayed here, it has a single-minded intensity that's laudable.