Ares (2016): Cast, Box Office & Plot

In a near-future France, the economy has collapsed and corporate power eclipses the old republic. Banks and mega-companies buy up national debt, leaving more than 15% of the population unemployed and sheltering in squalid encampments, the largest sprawling under the Eiffel Tower. In this world, the government is nominally a republic, but the corporations run everything, passing sweeping reforms that deregulate industries and bend the rule of law to their advantage. Among these changes, doping and human experimentation become legalized, and violent new spectator sports emerge as big sponsors push pharmaceutical drugs on athletes. Reda, Vincent Deniard fights under the nickname Arès, earning a living in brutal cage matches while being sponsored by powerful corporate interests.