Frank (Nicolas Cage), en tidligere mafiahåndlanger, løslades efter at have siddet i fængsel i 22 år for en forbrydelse, han ikke begik. Tilbage i friheden begiver han sig ud på et hævntogt mod de folk, der gjorde ham uret. Det eneste, der kan aflede ham fra hans voldelige planer er hans nyetablerede forhold til sin elskede søn.
" En mand kommer ud efter 19 år i fængsel for en forbrydelse han ikke begik og nu skal regnskabet gøres op! Nicolas Cage spiller manden Frank og der bliver ikke sparet på aktion og intensitet i denne hæsblæsende actionfilm. Frank er både blevet bitter og syg af at være i fængsel, men har dog stadig et ønske om at genvinde den svundne til sammen med sin nu 20-årige søn, Joey. ’A Score to Settle’ er instrueret af Shawn Ku, der bl.a. tidligere har stået bag ’ Beautiful Boy’ fra 2010. "
Nicolas Cage is back and has a score to settle. He is Frankie Carver, a sad man with fatal diagnosis who is out of prison after wrongly serving 19 hard years. Having a sporadic fatal insomnia has actually helped him gain his freedom and do what’s right for him. Even if it is the last thing he would do. As someone whose life is at the end, Frankie is plotting a revenge. He tracks each member of his old gang to make them pay for his suffering and for the lost years while being locked up. But that’s not all, our man has an estranged son and hopes to revive their difficult relationship. While achieving both goals seems impossible under these circumstances, the grumpy man finds love in the eyes of his boy. Love which may be late but what would life be without it?