Tuesday, February 5, 2008

The Trader

In the not too distant future, humans are the stock market, and John Dodger (Keanu Reeves) trades with their lives every day. Society runs on the basic premise of decency and hard work. Divorce, alcoholism, and other vices can lower the worth of your stock thereby marking you as expendable.
But when John's stock plummets without reason, he's on the run for his life as The Skye corporation sends out AGENTS (Mickey Rourke, Michael Madsen) to find John and kill him. With the help of some loyal friends (Diane Lane, Terrance Howard) John discovers the truth behind the Skye corporation's legacy of greed and dishonesty, as well as the truth behind his own past --- John was once an Agent for the Skye Corporation but was brainwashed and reprogrammed to live his life as a stock broker so the Skye Corporation could invest in him from the base level and make millions of dollars off of his progress. This time, however, they picked the wrong target.