In the midst of the financial crisis of 2007–2008, a portfolio-manager instructs his employees to neglect the best interests of clients in order to increase company profits.

Meanwhile, Jim Baxford (Dominic Purcell), an armored car driver and former soldier, lives with his wife, Rosie, in New York City.

He decides to cash in the pension he earned from serving in the military, but learns that much of it is lost as a result of bad investments on the part of his financial adviser.

Rosie feels guilty for the financial strain that her illness has put on Jim and, unable to cope, commits suicide.

Seeking vengeance, he purchases various firearms and grenades from an arms dealer, and begins a one-man army shooting spree on the Wall Street bosses that lost his money and contributed to the death of his wife.

Jim pretends to be an innocent wounded victim, having been shot in the arm by a security guard earlier, and is escorted away by SWAT, who is convinced Stancroft was the perpetrator.

[4] Around this time, Boll spoke with victims and people affected by the crisis and also started talking to a professor in the bailout commission in Germany.

[1] Boll stated that "The good thing is in New York, everybody is very busy so you don't have people paying a lot of attention to you if you shoot somewhere".

[6] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 24 out of 100, based on 4 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable" reviews.