Prototype (2013 Film)

Prototype (stylized as [PROTOTYPE]) is an science fiction horror movie that came out on June 23rd, 2013.

Set in Los Angeles, the movie follows a powerful amnesiac shapeshifter named Terry Rodriguez who must stop an outbreak of Blacklight, a plague that mutates individuals into hideous violent monsters. During his quest, Alex tries to uncover his past while also coming into conflict with both the US military and a black operations force called Blackwatch.

The movie was a critical and commercial success, with critics praising the film for its originality and engaging gameplay. Many reviewers compared and contrasted it with Infamous, another science fiction movie released one month prior to Prototype. A sequel, Prototype 2, was released in October 2015 and Prototype 3: Dark Light was released in July 2019. And a series called Prototype: The New Age recently released on Netflix in August 2021.

Plot
The game follows Terry Rodriguez (Shia LaBeouf) who wakes up in a morgue in the basement of Gentek, a genetic engineering company based in Manhattan, sending a pair of scientists that were just about to perform an autopsy running. Terry escapes, and witnesses the scientists being gunned down by military operatives. Terry is discovered and attacked. He survives bullets being fired into his chest, and leaps over a wall to safety. He soon discovers he now possesses powerful shapeshifting abilities, superhuman strength, speed, agility, durability, senses, endurance, weaponry and the ability to "consume" people to gain their memories, skills and appearance. With no memory of his previous life, Alex decides to find and consume those related to the conspiracy in order to uncover the truth. During his quest, Alex faces two factions: the United States Marine Corps and Blackwatch, a Fort Detrick special forces unit dedicated to combating biological warfare. Captain Robert Cross (Donald Faison), a Blackwatch officer, is given orders to find and contain Rodriguez.

The next day, after arriving home, he finds out that LAPD, SWAT, FBI, Blackwatch and the Army are outside his door. Realizing this, he grabs his iPod, and makes a run for it across Skid Row to his safehouse in South Central while Limp Bizkit's Rollin plays in the background.

After Terry arrives in South Central, a kid continuously calls him a "punk". Terry says him to call him punk one more time. Punk and a claw goes straight into the kid's mouth, scaring the other kids. After a few days, it is found out that Terry Rodriguez is just patient zero and that other people in Los Angeles are catching his virus and are turning like him. Just a few days ago, a body was found, mauled up.

As the virus expands, the Californian governor announces a quarantine for Los Angeles, completely turning it into a police state. Rodriguez creates a alliance called "The Dead", focusing on causing as much chaos across L.A. Terry and a fellow member of his: William Denver (Eric Balfour) decide to place backpack bombs on the city's busy bus system. The plan works perfectly and a bomb explodes on a bus, killing 47 people.

As the bomb kills 47 people, the L.A.P.D are unsure what target is next, or when the next attack is going to happen, there is only a small, tiny hint: The Police Station

Terry and Wiliam attack a police station, while Ellie Brayden (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) and Brooklyn Hughes (October Moore) destroy the US Bank Tower, totaling 1,800 deaths. As the L.A.P.D is turning completely useless on the case, a US Army regiment takes over the town, eliminating all freedoms. Outside of L.A, other cities in California and other cities across states are getting infected and being sealed off.

A majority of the infected citizens join The Dead, and organize Operation Los Angeles Collapse, an attempt to completely take L.A from the humans. As the clock reaches 11:59, the operation begins, as the infected ones begin killing civilians in L.A. The operation is divided in phases. Phase 1, Ellie and Brooklyn will destroy the Santa Monica Pier, Phase 2, William and Terry will destroy parts of Historic Core, Koreatown, Skid Row, and Hollywood. Phase 3: Attack Blackwatch's HQ in the outskirts of town, Phase 4, kill leaving civilians, and Phase 5, Terry will completely level parts he destroyed, causing a huge crater.

As Phase 5 commences, Rodriguez jumps from a skyscraper, completely nuking the parts William and Terry destroyed. As the explosion commences, the entire L.A is leveled, killing people in the aftermath. Those that survived the explosion get infected with Blacklight, effectively causing L.A's to fall into the hands of The Dead. A montage later shows that cities across the globe like Copenhagen, Tokyo, Genova, Moscow, Seoul, Ciudad Juárez, and Lahore have all fallen to the infection.

A mid-credits scene shows William and Terry alongside others in the Big Ben in London, planning on taking over another location.