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Counterattack (2021) Plot Summary & Ending Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 2021 · 88 mins · Chinese
- Starring
- Diego Dati, Vincent Zhao Wenzhuo, Jiang Yiyi, Myra Mala, Sergio De Ieso, Song Xi
Lu Zi Ming, a security expert, is brought in to consult on an oil and gas plant project bidding event. However, he finds himself framed by several of the involved parties. Determined to clear his name, he must now meticulously plan and execute a strategic counter-attack, uncovering a web of deceit and corruption along the way.
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What Happens at the End of Counterattack?
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Guerrero and his four teammates—Pollo, Tanque, Combo and Toro—reach a deserted house to regroup, unaware that it belongs to the drug lord Josefo Urias. Inside they discover the two women they saved earlier, bruised and terrified after days of torture. The soldiers quickly arm the women and prepare to leave, but Josefo’s men ambush them the moment they step outside.
In the chaotic firefight Pollo is hit in the leg, Tanque is wounded and runs out of ammunition, and the gang forces a secret passage into the house. With a loaded gun supplied by Carla, Tanque charges the hidden doorway and detonates a grenade, sealing the entrance and killing the attackers that were about to flood the room. The sacrifice buys his comrades a few precious seconds, but the cost is his own life.
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Josefo himself bursts in, outgunned but ferocious. He shoots Pollo, who collapses on his birthday, and then attempts to escape. Guerrero confronts him alone, refusing to let his men intervene. After a brutal hand‑to‑hand struggle Guerrero disarms Josefo, but instead of killing him he tells the cartel boss that a harsher reckoning awaits. At that moment a backup special‑forces unit arrives, overwhelms the remaining thugs and secures the scene. Josefo is taken into custody, the two women are finally freed, and the surviving soldiers—Guerrero, Combo and Toro—leave the house carrying the weight of their losses and the knowledge that their fight against the cartel has only just begun.
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