Beauty's Trap

"Who's the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?"

- The film's tagline

Beauty's Trap is a 1984 Vlokuzuian independent action film directed by Jayden Simpson in his directional debut, written by Pasi Peure and starring Świętopełk Wrzesiński, who also co-produced the film.

The film won EACTA Awards for Best Action or Adventure Film, Best Actor for Wrzesiński, Best Visual Effects, Best Film Editing and Best Sound Effects Editing. The film's score was provided by Ashton Gallagher. A commercial and critical success, Beauty's Trap was the 5th-highest-grossing R-rated film of 1985 worldwide, and the 20th-highest-grossing overall. Today, it is widely regarded by many in the motion picture industry as one of the greatest and most important films in film history.

The film became a pop-cultural phenomenon and launched an industry of tie-in products, including novels, comics, video games, amusement park attractions, and merchandise including toys, games, clothing and many other spin-off works. In May 2005, the El Kadsre Film Preservation Board selected Beauty's Trap for preservation by the El Kadsre Film Registry of the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Plot
Lieutenant Colonel Ignacy Pluciński, his wife Paula, and their three sons Jonatan, Zygmunt, and Konstantyn go on a Christmas holiday to New Salta. Arriving on Christmas Eve, they settle in and begin to enjoy the brand new Arnold Beach Resort. Two days later on Boxing Day, the massive Pacific Ocean tsunami inundates the area.

Pluciński eventually wakes up, realizing that it is only a nightmare. He leads an unsuccessful Special Forces raid on a Chechen mafia safe house in the United Kingdom to recover a stolen Soviet nerve agent, RT-10. During the raid one of his team is killed, and the nerve agent is found to be missing, leaving the mission a bust.

Three months later, Air Vlokozu Flight 645, a Boeing 747-100, leaves Madrid, Spain, bound for Glonisla, with over 400 passengers on board, including Vlokozu Union Senator Cameron Dean, and Mukhtaar el-Sala, lieutenant of the imprisoned terrorist leader Ramzi el-Molla. Soon after take-off, el-Sala and his men hijack the flight, demanding el-Molla's release.

During the flight in another plane, the Tupolev Tu-154, next to the 747-100, Lieutenant Walter Armstrong and Corporal Christopher Doyle are possessed by an unseen force through a spider that bit them and attack the others, only to be killed by Major General David van Kessel. Soviet fighters—that came out of nowhere—attack the plane, causing it to crash, killing the crew except Sienna Edwards, who escapes by a parachute Van Kessel gives her.

After the 747 drops the F-117 nighthawk—in which a bomb whistle is heard—Pluciński encourages the passengers, including Vlokozu Union Senator Cameron Dean and the flight attendant, to eject their seats because there is a timer bomb belonging to el-Sala. The passengers and the attendant do so with their parachutes and Pluciński bids farewell to el-Sala and el-Molla before jumping off from the plane skydiving with his parachute, leaving the two and their men inside. The plane explodes, killing them.

After arriving safely in Glonisla, Pluciński is informed by his superior Van Kessel—who survived the crash—that all the other members of his former unit have been killed by unknown mercenaries. The mercenaries, among them Captain Yoichi Yamamoto, a Japanese ex-member of Pluciński's team discharged for excessive violence, attack Pluciński's secluded mountain home and kidnap Pluciński's young daughter Amanda. While trying to intercept them, Pluciński is also overpowered and abducted by the mercenaries. He is taken before their commander, Charlie Carter, a Canadian former dictator Pluciński removed from power. Carter blackmails Pluciński into carrying out a political assassination in his native country Poland, where Carter wishes to lead a military coup. With Amanda's life on the line, Pluciński reluctantly accepts the demand, but not before killing Jaime while refusing to cooperate with "his men".

After boarding a plane to Poland, Pluciński manages to kill his guard, Dabrowski—by snapping his neck—and jumps from the plane just as it is taking off. With approximately 11 hours before the plane is scheduled to land, he sets out after another of Carter's men, Mike. He enlists the aid of his wife, Paula, and instructs her to follow Mike to a shopping mall. Paula first assumes that Pluciński is a madman, but after she sees Mike pull a gun on Pluciński in the ensuing fight, she decides to assist him in his endeavor. After a lengthy car chase, Pluciński catches up with Mike and drops him off a cliff to his death. Taking a motel key from Sully's jacket, Matrix tracks down and confronts Wilson, a former Green Beret in Carter's employ. He impales Wilson on a table leg after a lengthy fight. Pluciński tells Paula that Carter was going to kill their daughter Amanda, regardless of whether or not he did the job. Afterwards, Pluciński and Paula break into a warehouse owned by Carter which supplies weapons for his army. Pluciński learns where Amanda is being held after looking at a map of the island where Carter's villa is located.

Pluciński breaks into a surplus store to equip himself with military weaponry, but is immediately arrested by the police. Paula helps him escape by using a rocket launcher on the police car and, after commandeering a seaplane from a nearby marina controlled by Carter, Pluciński and Paula land the plane off the coast of Carter's island hideout. Pluciński instructs Paula to contact General Van Kessel and then proceeds to Carter's villa, killing Carter and his army. Amanda escapes to the villa's basement, but is captured by Yamamoto. Pluciński tracks them, and after a lengthy fight, finally kills Yamamoto for good by impaling him with a steam pipe. Van Kessel arrives with a military detachment and asks Pluciński to rejoin the unit, but Pluciński declines and departs the island aboard the seaplane with Amanda and Paula to reunite with his three sons.

Cast

 * Świętopełk Wrzesiński as Lieutenant Colonel Ignacy Pluciński
 * Halcyone Ferrara as Paula Pluciński
 * Sierra Nguyen as Amanda Pluciński
 * Jodocus Reinder as Major General David van Kessel
 * Lex Sinclair as Charlie Carter
 * Goro Yukimura as Captain Yoichi Yamamoto
 * Coty Hodges as Vlokozu Union Senator Cameron Dean
 * Haani al-Shafi as Mukhtaar el-Sala
 * Nawf al-Salahuddin as Ramzi el-Molla
 * Arnold Sobieraj as Jonatan Pluciński
 * Ziemowit Rachwa as Zygmunt Pluciński
 * Marceli Wąs as Konstantyn Pluciński
 * Iker Perez as Lieutenant Walter Armstrong
 * Houston Lopez as Corporal Christopher Doyle
 * Kim Gonzalez as Sienna Edwards
 * Abril Ariza as Jaime
 * Vaughn Nathans as Mike
 * Halil E.P.B. Gumar as Dabrowski
 * Velibor Košar as Wilson
 * Mikhail Tsyganov as Soviet Aircraft Pilot