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Release year: 2014

Storyline

Members of an elite DEA task force find themselves being taken down one by one after they rob a drug cartel safe house.

Top credits

Directors

David Ayer

Writers

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger — John 'Breacher' Wharton
Sam Worthington — James 'Monster' Murray
Terrence Howard — Julius 'Sugar' Edmonds
Olivia Williams — Det. Caroline Brentwood

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Did you know

• According to director David Ayer, Sabotage was heavily cut by the studio in favor of delivering more of an action-based film rather than a mystery thriller. The original cut was rumored to be close to 3 hours.

• The film had originally a completely different ending. In that ending, Caroline and Breacher apprehend Lizzy, who confesses. Breacher shoots Lizzy before she can reveal more, and Caroline becomes aware that Breacher is behind the killings. Breacher slips away undetected. Caroline and her partner, Jackson, then head to the lake to retrieve the money. Breacher shows up, stabs Jackson and begins fighting Caroline in the water. David Ayer filmed two alternate versions of this ending. In the first one, Caroline escapes and Breacher is confronted by two police cars when he tries to leave with the money. Breacher kills the cops and prepares to flee in one of the cars. Then Caroline appears and asks him why he killed his team. He tells her that they wouldn't let him kill his family's killer, who he knew he could get. She then shoots him when he tries to go for his gun. In the second version, when Caroline asks, Breacher tells Caroline that a member of his team betrayed him and one of them was responsible for selling his family to the cartel for money. He didn't know which one, so he took them all out. He shoots Caroline when she tries to apprehend him, and then leaves with the money. Both versions were rejected by the producers, who forced Ayer to create a new ending which showed Arnold Schwarzenegger's character as an antihero instead of as a villain.

• Arnold Schwarzenegger greatly disliked the haircut he had to wear for this film.

Box Office

Gross (Domestic): $10,508,518

Opening Weekend (Domestic): $5,272,444 (2014-03-30)

User reviews

⭐ 7/10

More story, less action. That is OK!

👍 113 · 7/12/2014

⭐ 5/10

Schwarzenegger delivers a rare dark performance in this extremely violent but ponderous cop thriller.

👍 121 · 4/3/2014

⭐ 6/10

A bit of a mess - narratively and literally - but this is still a brutal, surprisingly compelling film featuring a great lead performance by Schwarzenegger.

👍 30 · 4/10/2014