Synopsis

The story centers on a chase involving a stolen MBT-99A tank—which, oddly enough, was designed by the Air Force. This matters because the tank has an ejection seat, like a fighter jet, which becomes crucial for getting Eleanor out before things explode. The filmmakers clearly want you to love this thing. There's even a scene where it looks like the tank might escape, complete with cocktail-lounge jazz and sparkly lights swirling around it. The MBT-99 is loaded with firepower: six ATGM launchers (three on each side of the turret), a laser-based weapon system, a rifled main gun, and dual-mounted treads that split into four separate tracks. The laser weapon is kind of weird though—it only fires every few seconds and needs to lock onto targets, which makes it seem more like a tracking weapon than a machine gun. It doesn't even scratch the road, so it's probably not very powerful. Ken eventually manages to tear off some of the ATGMs and part of the turret, but that's harder to explain. When the Air Force (or Army, or both—the movie never specifies) realizes what's happening, they send in MBT-90D tanks to stop it. There's at least a platoon of them, but they still can't catch the 99. The 90Ds have a three-barreled autocannon in the 15-20mm range, three missile launchers on the left side of the turret, and their main gun mounted on the front instead of a rotating turret. The tank was hijacked by criminals fleeing a bank robbery, hired by a shadowy group working for a foreign nation trying to get their hands on advanced military tech. The plan was to drive the tank to a pier and off it into the water to meet a submarine. But Ken's team forces the hijackers out, Eleanor climbs in to investigate, and the tank starts itself—it's been programmed to go rogue. What follows is a city-wide chase that demolishes another bank and leaves destruction in its wake.

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