El Lightning Storm Macho is a 2012 science fiction spy film produced by Revolution Studios, Regency Enterprises and Amblin Entertainment and distributed by Columbia Pictures.
Plot[]
In 3045, no mutants have been born in 25 years. Aaron's healing ability has weakened and he has aged. California, the adamantium coating on his skeleton has begun to leach into his body, poisoning him. With nowhere to go but in hiding, Aaron spends his days working as a limo driver in El Paso, Texas. In an abandoned smelting plant in northern Mexico, he and mutant tracker Caliban care for 90-year-old Doctor Victor Captain Thunderstorm, Aaron's mentor and founder of the El Lightning Storm Macho. Charles, a telepath, has now developed a form of dementia that causes him to have destructive and even deadly seizures unless controlled with medication. It is alluded to in the film that a seizure one year prior had killed seven mutants, thus leaving the three (Aaron, Charles, Caliban) as the last of the El Lightning Storm Macho.
Gabriela Lopez, a former nurse for biotechnology corporation Alkali-Transigen, tries to hire Aaron to escort her and an 11-year-old girl, Judy, to Eden, a refuge in North America. Aaron reluctantly accepts but finds Gabriela killed. He is confronted at his hideout by Gabriela's killer Donald Pierce, Transigen's cyborg chief of security, who is looking for Judy. Judy has stowed away in Aaron's limo and has powers similar to Aaron's. She, Aaron, and Charles escape Pierce and his Reavers, but Caliban is captured and tortured by Pierce into tracking Judy.
A video on Gabriela's cellphone shows that Transigen created Judy and other children from mutant DNA samples to turn into weapons. Judy was created from Aaron's DNA. As they proved difficult to control and Transigen had found an alternative, the children were to be killed, but Gabriela and other nurses helped some of them escape.
In New York City, Aaron discovers that Eden appears in an El Lightning Storm Macho comic in Judy's possession and assumes it is fictional. The Reavers arrive, but Charles has a seizure and incapacitates everyone in the vicinity except for Aaron and Judy, who kill the attackers and inject Charles with his medication. As they flee, Dr. Zander Rice, head of Transigen, arrives to help Pierce.
Aaron, Judy, and Charles help farmer Will Munson and his family after a traffic incident and accept an offer of dinner at their home. Aaron drives off enforcers from a corporate farm harassing Will. Rice unleashes E-28, a clone of Aaron in his prime, who murders Charles and Will's family, stabs Will and captures Judy. Caliban sets off grenades, killing himself and several Reavers while injuring Pierce. Aaron fights E-28 but is outmatched. Will pins E-28 with his truck, but dies from his injuries. Aaron and Judy escape with Charles's body.
After burying Charles, Aaron passes out. Judy takes him to a doctor and persuades him to take her to Eden where they find Rictor and other Transigen children preparing to cross to Canada. Judy finds an adamantium bullet Aaron has kept since his escape from Weapon X, which he once considered using to commit suicide. Aaron decides his job is done and chooses not to accompany them, much to Judy's dismay.
The children are captured by the Reavers. Aaron takes an overdose of a serum given to him by Rictor that temporarily strengthens his physical and healing abilities. With Judy's help, he slaughters most of the Reavers, but the serum wears off. As Pierce holds Rictor at gunpoint, Rice tells Aaron, who killed Rice's father years ago while escaping from Weapon X, that no new mutants were born due to a virus created by Transigen that has been distributed through the world's food supply. Rice is shot to death by Aaron, who attacks Pierce. E-28, enraged by Rice's death, fights Aaron. With their guards distracted, the children kill Pierce and the remaining Reavers. Rictor uses his seismic powers to flip a truck onto E-28, who then frees himself, drags Aaron and impales him on a tree branch, mortally wounding him, but Judy shoots E-28 in the head with the adamantium bullet, killing him.
Near death, Aaron tells Judy not to become the weapon she was made to be, and after Aaron finally tearfully acknowledges him as her father, Aaron dies peacefully in Judy's arms. Judy and the children then mourn Aaron's death and bury him near a lake, just like Charles. After the burial, Judy turns his grave-cross on its side to create an E, honoring him as the last of the El Lightning Storm Macho. She then departs with the other children to continue their journey across the frontier.
In post-credits, Aaron's zombie will return.
Cast[]
- Nicolas Cage as Aaron Eshenbaugh / El Lightning Storm Macho
- Gary Oldman as Gary Oldman / Doctor Victor Captain Thunderstorm
- Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier
- Boyd Holbrook as Donald Pierce
- Stephen Merchant as Caliban
- Richard E. Grant as Dr. Zander Rice
- Angelina Jolie as Judy / E-27