AWOL

AWOL is a 2017 Philippine action thriller film directed by Enzo Williams starring Gerald Anderson. Synopsis Lt. Abel Ibarra (Gerald Anderson), a leader of an elite sniper group, protects his family from a man who plots a revenge to kill him and his love ones after accomplishing mission. Ibarra went on an absence without leave to make an investigation on a crime himself. Plot In the opening, a foreign terrorist Saheed executes a bound man after taking a bagful of money. Abel, alongside his team was inserted to neutralize the foreign terrorist. The mission is successful, but the terrorist committed suicide. Back at a restaurant, during their celebration of a fellow team member's child's christening, a bomb explodes just as Abel and his wife exits, killing all his team members. An old man berated his men for their failure. He swore justice upon his fellows. He tried to plead for clues, but his superior was mum about it, instead giving it to a police officer. Later that night, a group of men attacked his house, killing the guards, but neutralized. Abel sustained a wound on the assault. In the hospital, he tried to extract info on a surviving suspect, but an assassin disguised as a nurse, killed him, then fled.