A loose follow up to 1997's Grosse Pointe Blank using similar character and plotline of an assassin, War, Inc. is the story of Brand Hauser (John Cusack) a hired assassin. His job is given to him by the Vice President (Dan Akroyd) who is the owner of Tamerlane, a large corporation. Mr. Vice President wants Hauser to assassinate Oil Minister Omar Sharif (Lyubomir Neikov) who is trying to get a pipeline built through Turiqstan on its own rather than through Tamerlane. As he prepares to do this he uses the wedding of a big star from Central Asia, Yonnica Babyyeah (Hilary Duff) as a cover for his operation. When Brand finds himself head over heels for a beautiful reporter, Natalie Hegalhuzen (Marissa Tomei), things become a lot more complicated for him.