Baywatch Dvd

Baywatch is a 2017 American action comedy film based on the television series created by Michael Berk, Douglas Schwartz, and Gregory J. Bonann. The film was directed by Seth Gordon, written by Mark Swift and Damian Shannon (from a story by Jay Scherick, David Ronn, Thomas Lennon, and Robert Ben Garant), and stars Dwayne Johnson, Zac Efron, Jon Bass, Alexandra Daddario, Kelly Rohrbach and Priyanka Chopra. The story follows lifeguard Mitch Buchannon and his team who must take down a drug lord in an effort to save their beach.

Principal photography began on February 22, 2016, in Florida and Savannah, Georgia. The film was released in the United States on May 25, 2017, by Paramount Pictures, grossed $177 million worldwide and received negative reviews from critics, with criticism for its crude humor, storyline and character development, but Johnson’s performance did receive some praise. Baywatch received five nominations at the 38th Golden Raspberry Awards, including Worst Picture and Worst Actor for Efron.

Plot

In Emerald Bay, Florida, Lt. Mitch Buchannon and his team of lifeguards, including second-in-command Stephanie Holden and veteran C.J. Parker, protect the beaches and the bay as part of an elite division known as Baywatch. Having made over 500 rescues in his career, Mitch is beloved by the community, to the annoyance of local beat cop Garner Ellerbee and Mitch’s superior, Captain Thorpe. During one of his morning patrols, Mitch finds a small pouch of flakka drug washed up near the Huntley Club, which is now under the ownership of businesswoman Victoria Leeds, who has been secretly bribing city councilman Rodriguez and others in efforts to increase her stake in the bay.

Mitch later meets Olympian Matt Brody who, thinking his Olympic position entitles him to be on the team without trying out, says that he is already on the team. He then calls Holden in, and they tease Brody. Mitch later makes Brody beat him on the “big boys'” course. When the course ends, a mom and her kids start drowning, resulting in the lifeguards and Brody rushing to save them, even though Brody isn’t a lifeguard yet. When everything’s clear, the results of the tryouts are in, and the people who made it are Ronnie Greenbaum, Summer Quinn, and Matt Brody.

When a private yacht catches fire, Brody disobeys orders and dives directly under the flames, causing Holden and C. J. to have to save him. The occupants are evacuated, except for the deceased councilman Rodriguez. Ellerbee disapproves of Mitch’s further investigative actions. Mitch and the gang attend a party held by Leeds to investigate about the flakka, but without much luck, as Brody makes a fool of himself getting drunk. Mitch, Brody, and Summer later infiltrate the hospital morgue, where they record two of Leeds’ henchmen planting a falsified autopsy report to cover up the fact that Rodriguez was murdered on her orders. Unfortunately, they are discovered, and though Mitch manages to subdue and capture one of them, the recording is destroyed and Ellerbee is forced to release their suspect on a lack of evidence. Angered, Thorpe threatens to fire Mitch if he oversteps his authority again.

Convinced that Leeds is running drugs out of the Huntley, Mitch and Brody go undercover and sneak into the club kitchen, where they witness her workers retrieving the drugs from barrels of fish and processing them. They contact Ellerbee, only to learn that another dead body has been found on the beach. Thorpe, enraged that Mitch essentially deserted his post, fires him and names Brody as the new lieutenant. Brody doesn’t want the job, but he is forced to take it. Mitch then takes a job as a salesman at Sprint.

Brody later sees a couple of “sand grifters (beach thieves)” steal bags using a cooler. He tackles the man, ordering him and his female accomplice off the beach, and steals the cooler. After finding another pouch of flakka on the beach, Brody steals the second victim’s report from Ellerbee using the cooler and brings it to Summer, who confirms his suspicion that the man was killed by a knife instead of a shark attack. Ronnie, upon recognizing the victim as his friend Dave, helps Brody hack into Leeds’ servers, revealing her plan to privatize the entire beach by systematically buying out or eliminating every competing business owner.

The team later infiltrates a private party on Leeds’ personal yacht, discovering how she’s been using the hull to smuggle the drugs. Brody is captured and placed in a bait cage to be drowned, and a gloating Leeds reveals that she bribed Thorpe to fire Mitch and put Brody for the job before pushing the cage into the water. Just before Brody dies, Summer swims up to him and gives him the kiss of life. However, this turns out to be a hallucination when he regains consciousness and realizes it is actually Mitch resuscitating him. The two catch up to Leeds, while Ronnie and C. J. hack the system and launch fireworks to prevent her escape helicopter from landing. Just as they run out, a wounded Mitch, having intentionally stung himself with a sea urchin to boost his adrenaline, uses a Roman candle to blow Leeds up, saving Brody once again. Ellerbee arrives and takes Leeds’ henchmen into custody, apologizing to Mitch for doubting him. Thorpe arrives and begins to berate Mitch for not understanding he’s fired and returning to the beach. In response, Brody punches Thorpe in the face. Thorpe is subsequently arrested for his role in Leeds’ plan.

In the aftermath, Ronnie and Brody begin relationships with C.J. and Summer respectively. Mitch, having been reinstated, no longer makes Summer, Ronnie, and Brody trainees and introduces them to their new captain, Casey Jean.

Cast

Dwayne Johnson as Mitch Buchannon
Zac Efron as Matt Brody
Alexandra Daddario as Summer Quinn
Priyanka Chopra as Victoria Leeds
Kelly Rohrbach as C. J. Parker
Jon Bass as Ronnie Greenbaum
Hannibal Buress as Dave the Tech
Ilfenesh Hadera as Stephanie Holden
Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as Sgt. Ellerbee
Oscar Nunez as Councilman Rodriguez
Rob Huebel as Captain Thorpe
Amin Joseph as Frankie
Jack Kesy as Leon
Pamela Anderson as Casey Jean Parker
David Hasselhoff as Mitch Buchannon, the Mentor