Col. Hannibal Smith (Liam Neeson) is a master planner of inventive missions requiring split-second timing, unusual skills and a team of incredibly proficient and... eccentric... soldiers: Templeton "Face" Peck (Bradley Cooper), who can procure anything for the team's unorthodox and daring activities; B.A. Baracas (Quinton "Rampage" Jackson), the team's driver and muscle; and H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock (Sharlto Copley), a gifted pilot—and certified loon. These former Special Forces soldiers are set up for a crime they did not commit, pursued relentlessly by Capt. Charisa Sosa (Jessica Biel), a former love interest of Face's.