Beckett

 is an American-Italy-Brazil-Greece action thriller film directed by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino and written by Kevin Rice. John David Washington in this taut thriller with Oscar winner Alicia Vikander, Boyd Holbrook, and Vicky Krieps.

The film was not intended for a streamer, but because of COVID-19, it has been acquired by Netflix in October 2020 to be distributed on its platform. The film, which has been in development for a while after being announced in 2019. The feature was originally titled Born to Be Murdered but was renamed in January 2021. The Hollywood Reporter first reported that Netflix had picked up the rights to the movie back in October 2020.

Beckett had its world premiere at the 74th Locarno Film Festival on August 13, 2021, and was digitally released on August 13, by Netflix.

Summary
"An American tourist goes on the run in Greece after a tragic accident plunges him into a political conspiracy that makes him a target for assassination."

- Official Netflix synopsis

While vacationing in Greece, Beckett (John David Washington), an American tourist, becomes the target of a manhunt after a devastating accident. Forced to run for his life and desperate to get across the country to the American embassy to clear his name, tensions escalate as the authorities close in, political unrest mounts, and Beckett falls even deeper into a dangerous web of conspiracy.

Plot
After a catastrophic event plunges him into a political scheme that makes him a target for assassination, an American tourist goes on the run in Greece. As Beckett is trying to recover, he notices a woman rushing a red-headed child out of the room. When he exits the vehicle, he discovers that his girlfriend has been killed in the collision. He subsequently wakes up with a broken arm in a hospital room. When he is later questioned by the police, he is told that the house was abandoned and empty. He informs a bearded English-speaking cop that it wasn't empty and that he spotted a red-headed kid.

After leaving the police station, he returns to the house where his car collided with sleeping tablets, intending to commit suicide. A blonde woman outside the building starts shooting at him as he begins to take the pills. After he hides in a bush, the same bearded cop he told about the child comes up behind him and calls him out, claiming there was a mistake and that he should come out. The blonde-haired woman shoots him in the arm as he stands up. He flees as the cop and the woman both shoot at him and pursues him. He flees by jumping off a cliff into a tree.

The police and the blonde woman who had shot at him before were the same ones. The elderly hunter approaches the door in an attempt to get access. When the old hunter tries to get rid of them by going to the door, he is attacked. Beckett escapes by jumping out of a window. He comes into two beekeepers who loan him their phone. He phones the US embassy in Athens, approximately a 5-hour drive away, and they say they can pick him up the next day. Beckett assures them that he will visit them. He starts walking towards a faraway train station when he stumbles across a school field trip, which offers him a lift to the train station. He is oblivious to the fact that the bearded police officer has also boarded the same train. The officer takes a seat next to Beckett and informs him that the beekeepers informed him that Beckett would be on the train. When the officer tries to detain him, Beckett pulls the train's brake, and the officer is shot in the foot in the subsequent struggle, allowing Beckett to flee once more.

Beckett notices two female activists, Lena and Eleni, putting up posters of the red-headed boy in town. They inform him that the boy is the kidnapped son of a liberal politician seized by a far-right organization. Beckett is hidden in their trunk and driven to Athens. To evade a police roadblock, Beckett is forced to exit the car and proceed to the metro station, where he would board a train to get closer to the US Embassy. He gets attacked by a knife-wielding man while attempting to escape the police at the subway station. Beckett makes his way across the tracks and is escorted to the embassy. He learns that his girlfriend's body has been sent there, and an embassy employee takes him to the morgue to see her body.

The embassy employee offers to take him to an honest cop to smooth things out, but when they depart, the embassy employee attempts to taser Beckett. Beckett, on the other hand, is able to use the taser against him and flee after the vehicle crashes. Beckett rushes to the location where the activists said they were going to try to warn them. A member of the embassy staff arrives with the cops and pursues Beckett to a political rally. Shots are fired at the protest, and Beckett flees into the mall basement, where he is accosted by an embassy official with a gun who informs him that the liberal politician has been murdered. Becket fights him and defeats him, knocking him unconscious.

He walks over to the rally area and sees the blonde woman who fired the gun. He tracks her down to a parking garage, where she runs into the bearded cop. Beckett shoots the cop in the hand and battles the blonde woman before they can flee. Even though he is shot, he manages to knock her unconscious. The bearded cop escaping the parking garage with the red-headed boy in the trunk is then pursued by him.

Beckett jumps on the car from the top of the parking garage and knocks out the bearded cop, allowing the boy to be rescued from the trunk. Beckett looks down at his palm in the closing scene and discovers a heart drawn on his hand by his girlfriend, reflecting on how he should have died.

Cast and Characters

 * John David Washington as Beckett
 * Alicia Vikander as April
 * Boyd Holbrook as Tynan
 * Vicky Krieps as Lena
 * Lena Kitsopoulou as Female Shooter
 * Panos Koronis as Officer Xenakis
 * Maria Votti as Eleni