Apparemment, la présence de Nicolas Cage serait confirmée, pendant que Colin Farrel et Al Pacino sont souhaités pour d'autres rôles.
Et sinon on peut trouver un synospis assez détaillé qui spoile surement un peu :
After being forced to retire from the DEA, TRENT MITCHELL (Colin Farrell or equivalent), and his friend, a former DEA Agent and ex-convict, MARTIN CRANE (Nicolas Cage), head to a small town on the border of Texas and Mexico with a plan to take down GIRALDO ESTAMADURO, a ruthless drug lord. Estamaduro’s cartel has killed countless DEA Agents and kept the town of Los Rojos under his harsh rule for decades. Trent and Crane know that the only way to take him down is to hit him where it hurts: his money.
LENA, the daughter of their old friend, is the local police chief, a post she volunteered for after the former police chief went missing. She knows her dad’s old friends are up to something, but she can’t figure out what.
After studying Estamaduro’s empire, which includes a casino, a luxury hotel, a tire factory and a big box superstore – all of which exist to launder drug money – Crane posits that Estamaduro keeps his money close. Probably in a safe inside his massive mansion. Unable to complete the job on their own, Trent and Crane assemble a team of mercenaries of various skill sets whom they dub the “Red Squad.”
A Frenchman nicknamed RABBIT rigs a small drone to scan the mansion for the safe, which they find on the basement level. Trent’s old flame, FRANCHESCA, hacks into the security system and disables the cameras. JAGGER rigs the mansion with a contraption that releases fumes into the ventilation system to knockout the occupants. The entire crew works together to lift the safe from the house with the aid of a crane so that HUNTER can explode the safe while safely keeping the money intact.
Their plan seems to go off without a hitch, and the Red Squad gets away with close to seven hundred million dollars! But Estamaduro does something they don’t expect; he takes his anger out on the innocent people of Los Rojos. Meanwhile, JACK REILLY (Al Pacino or equivalent) Trent’s former mentor in the DEA, senses Trent’s involvement in the theft, and comes to Los Rojos to investigate. RAMON, Estamaduro’s right hand man, oversees the murder of several innocent townspeople, prompting Lena to beg Crane for help. Crane convinces most of the Red Squad to stay and fight Estamaduro, but Trent holds out, eager to take his hundred million and disappear somewhere south of the equator. But when he learns that the cartel has abducted Jack, he has a change of heart.
The Red Squad goes after Estamaduro and his cartel with reckless abandon, culminating in a massive battle in the streets of Los Rojos.
Movies simply don’t get more exciting than “Red Squad.” Legendary director John McTiernan’s signature action, terrific humor, fun characters, and a timely subject matter combine for an entertaining adventure in which good triumphs over evil and an unlikely hero emerges and inspires.