Vincent (Jason Statham) is a former police officer and ex-mercenary who now survives as a skilled fighter-for-hire in New York. After a brutal rescue of a little girl named Mei from a gang-controlled chop shop, Vincent discovers she is more than a random victim: Mei has memorized a sequence of numbers that several powerful groups—Russian mobsters, corrupt NYPD officers, Triad assassins, and a mysterious Chinese mafia—desperately want because the numbers unlock lists and accounts tied to high-level corruption and trafficking.

The film posits that in a digital age, a child’s memory is more valuable than an army of gunmen.

A 12-year-old mathematical prodigy from China kidnapped by the