The End of Violence

In Hollywood, the wealthy producer Mike Max enjoys and promotes violent movies. He has a troubled marriage with Paige Stockard, who claims that he does not give much attention to her. When the stunt Cat hurts her face during a shooting, Max is afraid to be sued and visits Cat in the hospital. Then he asks his assistant Claire to give an audition to Cat for his next film. Out of the blue, he receives an e-mail with a classified attachment from the FBI, but he does not read. Then the stupid thugs Frank Cray and Lowell Lewis kidnap him and say that they have been hired to kill him. Mysteriously, Mike escapes and a group of Mexican gardeners find and lodge him at home. The cinephile police detective "Doc" Dean Brock investigates his disappearance since Max is accused of killing the two criminals and notes that the police officers seem to be hiding something. Meanwhile, the former NASA computer scientist Ray Bering is hired to work at the Griffith Park Observatory in an experimental satellite surveillance system that invades people privacy with the purpose of reducing crimes and has not been approved by the Congress yet. His chief, Brice Phelps, sends the Salvadorean maid Mathilda with her daughter to keep the place clean. When Ray sees that the cameras have filmed Max's abduction, he becomes obsessed to learn what happened to him.