Jack Stone: Instruments of Armageddon

Jack Stone: instruments of Armageddon is a 2016 action film made by Fox Way Studios. The film is a sequel to Jack Stone: Killed in Action. It is the third published Fox Way Studios film, as well as the second film in the "Jack Stone" series. The film was released on February 26th, 2016.

The film is directed by Tony Cole and it stars Tony Cole as Jack Stone, Steve Mills as Erik Helenius, Thomas Sandford as General Doyle 'H', Michael Coughlin as Lind and Alex Kaufmann as Ratt.

The film spawned five sequels: Jack Stone: For Queen and Country in 2017, Jack Stone: Second to None in 2017, Jack Stone: Rogue Albion in 2018, Jack Stone: Diamond Cutter in 2018 and Jack Stone: End of the Line in 2019 as well a spin-off series, Jack Stone Classified in 2020.

Synopsis
In his second adventure, Jack Stone of the British Secret Service, continues his fight against the VORTEX crime syndicate. The trail of VORTEX's arms dealing business leads Stone to Finland, but upon arrival it becomes apparent he might have stepped a foot too far into enemy territory.

Plot
Jack Stone arrives to a house in Kent, England, where he calls H to ask about his current mission. H tells that the man living in the address is an employee of the Vortex crime syndicate, but who wants to defect. The man is willing to give information about Vortex in exchange of protection. Jack gets out of his car and knocks on the door. For a while no one answers, but soon a man peaks outside carefully and tells Jack to come in. The man asks whether or not Jack wants coffee, to which Jack answers positively. The man starts making coffee in the kitchen. Jack tells that he wants to know more about Vortex, but the defector is afraid of Vortex coming after him for snitching. Jack personally guarantees the man's safety, but only if he tells everything he knows about Vortex. As he is about to start talking, he is shot through the kitchen window. Jack quickly stands up and checks the defector's pulse and confirms that he is dead. Jack sees the shooter through the window, who starts running away. Jack chases after him. Eventually he is able to shoot the killer in the hand, and tell him to start talking.

Jack returns to the MI-X headquarters and meets Doyle in his office. Doyle has been able to gather information about Vortex through the killer of the snitch. He is able to tell Jack that Vortex is a much more dangerous and global organization that previously presumed and that they are responsible for countless heists and terrorist attacks in Europe and parts of Asia. Doyle, after calling his opposite numbers in Fennoscandia, figured out that Vortex is running some sort of business in Finland. Jack is sent to meet a Finnish Secret Service agent in Finland, and find out what business is Vortex running there.Near a graveyard, in Western Finland, Jack meets Lind, a former associate of his and a Finnish agent. They talk about this and that, about Jack leaving the SAS for the Secret Service and about Jack's growing fame, since he was able to survive a meeting with multiple Vortex members. Lind is able to tell Jack that trucks from the north, carrying weapons, have crossed the eastern border. Lind tells Jack that he must destroy the warehouse and the weapons inside it to stop Vortex' arms dealing business in Finland. He gives Jack a suppressor for his colt, a combat vest and a remote-controlled bomb. Before Lind is able to tell the location of the warehouse to Jack, he is shot by a Vortex member. Jack shoots the Vortex member and returns to the dying Lind who tells Jack to take a note from his pocket. The note reveals the location of the warehouse. In Northern Finland, Jack sneaks through the warehouse, killing the guards along. He finds the main hall where a plethora of different weapons is displayed. Before Jack is able to set the bomb, he is confronted by Erik Helenius and his bodyguards. Helenius tells Jack that he is the leader of the arms dealing business in Finland, but that Vortex' plans are much bigger than that. He orders his men to kill Jack.

One of the guards drag Jack out of the main hall and into the snow, where he shows Jack to turn around. Before the guard is able to shoot Jack, Jack kick snow in to the guard's eyes and attacks him. The guard tries to take his MP5 back, but before he is able to, Jack chokes him to death. To distract Helenius and the other guards, he shoots one bullet into the air to make them believe that he is dead. Jack has to shoot a few of the guards in order to survive. This confuses Helenius as he thinks that Jack is dead. He enters the main hall once again where a shootout occurs. He runs for his colt (which was confiscated before), shoots the last guard and plants the bomb. He leaves the main hall. As Jack is running away, he hears from behind how Helenius demands him to stop. Before he is able to shoot Jack, Jack detonates the bomb which makes Helenius startle allowing Jack to shoot him.

Jack returns to the MI-X headquarters where Doyle congratulates Jack for a successful mission. Jack says that Vortex is still out there, taking innocent lives to which Doyle replies that they do have leads, but nothing solid enough. Jack tells him that Vortex must be stopped, before its too late.

Cast

 * Tony Cole as Jack Stone
 * Steve Mills as Erik Helenius and as henchman (uncredited)
 * Thomas Sandford as General Doyle 'H' and as henchman (uncredited)
 * Michael Coughlin as Lind and as henchman (uncredited)
 * Alex Kaufmann as Ratt

Locations

 * Europe
 * United Kingdom
 * England
 * Kent
 * Ratt's house
 * Forest path
 * London
 * MI-X headquarters
 * Doyle's second office
 * Finland
 * Western Finland
 * Graveyard
 * Northern Finland
 * Helenius' warehouse
 * Main hall

Characters

 * Jack Stone
 * Howard Doyle
 * Erik Helenius
 * Lind
 * Ratt

Items

 * Remote-controlled bomb

Vehicles

 * Jack's BMW

Organizations

 * Secret Intelligence Service
 * MI-X
 * Vortex
 * Finnish Security Intelligence Service

Production
Jack Stone: Instruments of Armageddon was announced on the 22th of November, 2015 through a set photo published on Tony Cole's Instagram. On the 11th of December, 2015 the official trailer for Instruments of Armageddon was released. Due to the fact that most of the scenes in the film were shown in the trailer it is likely that the film was already filmed by that date.

This film is the first Fox Way Studios film with an original soundtrack, which was composed by Otto Nilsson. The track is public on Otto's YouTube channel and it features eight songs and is eight minutes in length.