The Old Guard

The Old Guard is a 2020 American superhero film directed by Gina Prince-Bythewood. It is based on the comic book of the same name.

The movie follows a pack of centuries-old immortal mercenaries who are able to heal from any wound. Just as they find another immortal has "awakened", they realize someone is onto their secret and have to fight for their freedom.

Summary
"Led by a warrior named Andy (Charlize Theron), a covert group of tight-knit mercenaries with a mysterious inability to die have fought to protect the mortal world for centuries. But when the team is recruited to take on an emergency mission and their extraordinary abilities are suddenly exposed, it’s up to Andy and Nile (Kiki Layne), the newest soldier to join their ranks, to help the group eliminate the threat of those who seek to replicate and monetize their power by any means necessary."

- Netflix Press Release

Plot
Andy is a 6000 year old Immortal Warrior a member of an ancient group known as the Old Guard, when her group is offered a opportunity to rescue school kids it turns to be a setup by Copley.

When Nile is deployed in Afghanistan she is on patrol looking for a high value target in a town, when she kills the HVT he mortally wounds her by stabbing her in the neck. When she begins to revive memories of others surface, and for the members of the Order they learn the identity of a new immortal Nile Freeman.

Andy rescues Nile from research and experimentation by the US Government and takes her to the Old Guard's safe-house just outside of Paris, France where she is introduced to the other Old Guard members, Booker, Joe and Nicky And Andy explains they can die, but they never know when or why. While there Nile recounts a nightmare she has of a past immortal named Quynh who was captured during the witch trials and eventually entombed in a metal torture box called the Iron Maiden and dropped into the ocean, Andy spent a long time looking for Quynh but could never find her.

Andy takes Nile for a walk to discuss their immortality and the others are ambushed by Copley, Joe and Nicky are captured and taken to Merrick, Andy finds Booker severely wounded and while he heals she fights off intruders in the main church. When they escape to a former hide-out of Andy's she finds her wounds are not healing, signaling the end of her mortality.

Merrick and his team proceed to experiment on Joe and Nicky to try and find out how their immortality works.

In an attempt to rescue Joe and Nicky, Joe, Nile and Andy find Copley where after a short time Nile decides to leave. When confronting Copley, Booker betrays Andy before realising she is injured and isn’t healing, they are then both captured by Merrick's men.

Nile changes her mind and returns to Copley’s intending to backup Booker and Andy but finds them missing, confronting Copley he explains how he watched his wife die from ALS an incurable fatal disease. He explains how he’s traced Andy through history and descendants of the people she saves have gone on to do great things, he also tells Niles that Andy is no longer immortal. He then tells her where she can find Merrick and the other immortals. In a one man assault Nile finds the members of the Old Guard and rescues them, she tells Andy she Needs her help, immortal or not.

In pursuit of Merrick, Andy goes after Merrick herself, and finds out that Merrick has gone to his penthouse. During the assault Merrick begins to get away, however it is only a deception and Merrick confronts Andy and Nile. In his attempt to kill Andy, Nile pushes Merrick out the window down to the street below and into a car.

After discussing Booker’s betrayal the Old Guard decides that he will be exiled from them for a century, while Nile decides it is best to leave her old life behind. Noting that Copley has tracked the history of the Old Guard over a century and a half Andy recruits him to clean up their tracks and find them jobs that will suit them right. With little to do, and with no choice he accepts simply stating "I'd be honored."

In a post title (pre-credit scene) six months later it is revealed that Quynh is still alive and has found Booker in his home in Paris.

Cast and Characters

 * Charlize Theron as Andy
 * Kiki Layne as Nile
 * Matthias Schoenaerts as Booker
 * Marwan Kenzari as Joe
 * Luca Marinelli as Nicky
 * Chiwetel Ejiofor as Copley
 * Harry Melling as Merrick
 * Van Veronica Ngo as Quynh
 * Lee S. Hwak Zhang as Sadeq