One More Shot (2024)

One-More-Shot-(2024)
One More Shot (2024)

Scott Adkins seems to be starting another series ONE MORE SHOT is officially the sequel to Adkins’s movie ONE SHOT. This is a siege thriller movie by James Nunn which came out in late 2021. This is styled as a rope. Scott Adkins seems to have impressed a lot of his fans as he had great pleased camera angling along with choreography. In essence, ranging from the type of Adkin films available out there, this movie seems to be ranked high based on dramatic performance and camera angles. But to be fair there only is very little kick in the film, and it was far aahted for me to be a fan of the movie, Along with the kick there are very few flying moments, the movie was more about gunshot drama. The movie does tend to hint towards a war against terror, as the fans have said, the drama aspect doesn’t disappoint.

Adkin seems to have partnered with Jamie Russell once again for the sequel along with James Nunn to have worked as a co-writer. Looking at the complaints made in the previous movie regarding the following spy text, the movie does have the seem more interesting elements. The movie seems to have more engaging action while adding to the plot elements. The setting is reknit from CIA black ops aiming to focus more on turning angles around an abandoned airport.

Navy SEAL Jake Harris (Adkins) brings his captive Amin Mansur (Waleed Elgadi, FOUR LIONS) who is aware of the location of the dirty bomb that is bound to go off during the State of the Union address of the United States and the accused is the only one who knows where it is set to be detonated in Washington DC. There are various disputes that mean they are unable to fly him into a military airforce base, and instead concoct a gas leak in order to evacuate a civilian airport. In my view, the script justifies it but again, even if it did not, it is a significantly more exciting site than an Air Force base for some unknown reason, they shot it at London Stansted Airport.

As Niesha was wailing in vain to reunite with Mansur, Michael Marshall of the CIA together with Agent Lomax and others arrived and whisked him away on behalf of Homeland Security. It is the nagging voice of Niesha, choking in tears and surrounded by a few men that Harris is toiling to meet. Harris considers being in the same context with the prisoner as more of his lifetime struggle and achievement only to be rudely sidelined and ordered to attend to the needs of his agitated wife by Jill Winternitz. To those who have ever had the misfortune of being delayed en route through an airport, an empty terminal scene lucidly depicts the now beat-up state of this person. As he recalls that time, nobody really cared whether he was in Russia or Germany or anywhere else in the world where I could get a visa.

His bewilderment caused by the armed soldiers is short-lived as someone raises the question of whether he employed the services of armed soldiers at the terminal. His overriding concern is the safety of the Mansurs currently in custody, while at the same time figuring out what the goals of the aggressors are and where the assault began.

Harris might be concerned along with his fans he would not be concerned about this, Jackson is the mercenary character portrayed by Michael Jai White and he is the leader of a cool group consisting of very badass mercenaries. Throughout the whole film, he is portrayed as one of the scariest villains, his followers are already afraid of him because of his reputation long before we meet him and when we finally meet him, at some angles the camera is positioned in such a way that it seems that we are spying on him; he orders everyone around in an overly angry Dibo. He does not care about Campbell (Edward Linard, NEVER BACK DOWN REVOLT), who plays the head Henchman Dunbar (Aaron Toney, WOLF WARRIOR II, DEBT COLLECTORS), and gets on the phone with Harris and the Mansurs.

No, pardon me for even suggesting it, but going through the engrossing McClaning sneaking one’s way around corners, weapons grabbing off his slain foes the odd time, body armor included does deserve some appreciation. At times the camera may shift to focus on other characters, and off-screen Harris would be taking aim to shoot them while he is in the middle of strangling someone from behind who had the misfortune of being right next to him. Lots of shooting once again, but also loads of knife fighting, punches, hacks, and stomping mixed in. Thanks a lot for the stylish craziness, ONE MORE SHOT.

However, there are no fisticuffs that will stretch on indefinitely. What makes the conflict continue to intrigue is the mix of intimidation and deception which builds up around how and why the cut sceneries got unraveled. One episode does allow one of the protagonists to go from being a complete saint to becoming a totally obnoxious git and have fun in doing so.

Mansur was someone who had lost his child due to a drone strike and out of revenge had tried to plan a terror attack. Living in such dire circumstances made him a person who believed that his life was out of his control which is why it is so entirely justifiable for him to come up with such gruesome acts. What he fails to understand is the fact that anytime someone is living their life for revenge, more often than other people they become scapegoats for a bigger crime. Mansur has a lot of complexities, the one in this case particularly strong, and did side with Niesha in terms of not seeing the reason why she made such a hailing decision in regard to his future.

Apart from the original, I do not know if they did this on purpose, but it is funny that there are some DIE HARD 2 references in this part 2. One of them is that the one main tough guy in an airport is running around is fighting numerous but also at the same time while everybody is being all on the lookout for a foreign threat when it is actually the American military officers who are actually behind it. Of course, the budget is minute in comparison to what Renny Harlin had (that’s life), so they don’t get to have jets exploding or anything of the sort. I was looking forward to some amusing moments with luggage conveyor belts but as it stands, these moments were apparently not in the cards, and may not make sense in a deserted airport. There is, however, a fight on a tram, and if it is not really moving, boy did they manage to make it look like it was going super fast. I know for a fact that I am a staunch supporter of the fish fighting subway scene in the film NINJA which I am sure was used with a greenscreen but this one had the edge of realism which makes me heavy chest.

There are certain aspects to everything that is quite comical, and I was thoroughly amused by this turning while passing through a room where a television was on with a news anchor announcing the date of the State of the Union and mentioning that the President, the Vice President, and Congress will be performing. It’s clear for our friends abroad, but it still makes me chuckle. In any case, this is in a league of its own when it comes to most VOD action, which is a high-level work of filmmaking craft and budget on other levels. I have mentioned that it emulates the artificially staged faux single take of the first movie, but solely because I do not recall experiencing it, I will recommend it. Well, it is only one long take, but in terms of the hidden cuts being quite overused, in many instances, the ones taken are unsettling. Was this sort of system missing when it was to that extent rather than expect it? The only time I did, I think, was after a falling stunt that I suppose must have been tricksy in one way or another and even that was for me, not a big deal.

With the assistance of a moving vehicle, Children of Men and I have a unique story to tell to exhibit the countless innocents who shed tears during a war and how Children of Men is built around the deep sense of chaos such people feel. And yes, both were previously established years ago in UNDISPUTED II LAST MAN STANDING along with White as well as TRIPLE THREAT.

Obviously, the essence of ACCIDENT MAN retains, that sense of chaos Adkins and White still maintain when fighting. They clearly do still have those fine instants but do not glorify them excessively. However, I will note that even in this instance there was enough power to leave fans across the globe amused. The audience was excited to see that combination of two furious adrenaline-fuelled beings after a fifteen-year-long wait.

Unlike Harris, Jackson is a difficult character to care for. He barely walks but rather, saunters around, boasting about himself and yelling like nobody’s business. Jackson’s mentality, up until now, was that of a pompous executive bossing his subordinates around from the back of the room. Meanwhile, Harris has been undergoing several airlifting stressors throughout the movie, and with an extended reach as an exception, he becomes thoroughly worn out. No wonder he goes mute like a smart man, keeping his voice and attention intact. Tim Man, the fighter choreographer, is a familiar face in movies such as Boyka Undisputed, Eliminators, Accident Man, Abduction, Triple Threat, Legacy of Lies, and One Shot. If the timeline is followed, Man made his way onto Ninja Shadow Of a Tear and pursued a career in action cinemas.

(mild spoilers in this paragraph) There is an unsettling feeling about seeing Harris almost kill him, only because Harris does not want him to die, he just needs to move on. It’s an interesting detail on how I only after the movie wondered how he left Jackson alive to ensure that he could be part of the sequel that they would want to make. Cram the sequence in where right at Hope there is an interesting standoff at that moment, but it sounds peculiar to put it that way in a more grand sequence of events where everything is more or less one long continuous fight scene with Ogami and Retsudo thick into their combat. The way in which they arranged it beforehand the last fight was always going to be brief and his fight has been reported to be called a truce.

As many of you will have complaints about the movie, as it ends rather abruptly, I would like to call it an unfinished business, this complaint is not to be directed back towards me. It most definitely did come off to me. in spite of feeling the very same, it was indeed quite entertaining as a movie that had the narrative of a sequel in an indie action game trilogy that I genuinely don’t know if they will release a third part. There’s a primacy in it, nice and simple, to me it all suggests some striking ideas. In the end, the movie does get connected to it, as the scene of bomb blasting was reached, in the end, it managed to punch to character-building scenes precisely where it should.

ONE MORE SHOT is available on VOD in the US and on Sky Cinema in the UK. If you have not seen the movie ONE SHOT and want to appreciate and understand ONE MORE SHOT then I would begin with ONE SHOT in my honest opinion, as the people who have already seen ONE SHOT might want to skip it for the time being.

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