Everytime a new Scott Adkins movie comes out, i have to watch it. Really enjoy the guy type of action since i discovered him in Undisputed 2. This movie surprisingly was only available to buy/rent on Apple TV in Canada (not Prime, not Xbox, not Google), a place i sometimes forget to check, so it took me a little while to watch it. Still waiting on The Killing Game to release here but thats another story.
Scott plays an American in this movie, and altough you can pick some trace of his native British accent, it was overall very easy to understand for me in original English language (i usually watch movies in French dubbed when possible). Some of the other characters have a few foreign accents but overall had no issue understanding everything.
The intro has a lot of friendly bickering between the 2 leads and it does not backpedale on F bombs, wich is probably just to let us know they good friends and establish chemistry, but was a bit too much at times for me. But once the action start in the penthouse, the movie becomes very entertaining.
There is obviously a lot of "suspend your disbeliefs" moments in this. For instance a sofa would not be very useful to cover against sniper bullets. And the whole plan is very elaborated to eliminate Adkins and his pal when a simple dose of poison would had done it easily.
But thats a standard for pretty much every action movie and its not something i can fault the movie for too much. You don't watch a direct to VOD Scott Adkins movie for elaborate plot and cleaver writing. You want to see him kick some butts in good action sequences and you got it in this movie.
Alice Eve fans be warned, even tough she appear on the cover, and her role is not hidden in the trailer, she spend most of the movie her back against the camera and she felt very underused.
I really liked the character of Mona the massage girl and her chemistry with Adkins. The movie does not have a lot of side characters but beside Alice Eve i feel the others were well used.
Ultimately its just a fun action movie to enjoy with a few beers. I bough it for 9.99$CAD, wich was barely a little more than the rental price, so its gonna stay in my digital library and i could see myself watching it again in a few years. But its mostly one of these "Saturday Night disposable action movies" that you watch once, enjoy, and move on. At least to me.
If you are a big Scott Adkins fan, i totally recommand it. Action junkies? Also recommand. But if you only watch movies ocasionally and need a great story, clever dialogues etc, it may not be for you.
