One More Shot

Ok movie. It's been a long time since I've seen a movie that doesn't have all the gender issue. No sex either, not even a kiss. Just a plain unpretentious action movie. They could invest a little bit more and add some twist but the end is result is good.

Movie is packed with action, and good fighting scenes. It moves bit too fast and there is almost no story but def. Better than most crap USA movies you watch.

Even though I had never heard about this 2021 Chinese action movie titled "One More Shot" (aka "VR Fighter"), then of course I opted to sit down and watch it here in 2022, as I happened to stumble upon it by sheer random luck. Given my fascination with the Asian cinema, of course I needed no persuasion to watch what director Tang Qiaojia had to offer with "One More Shot".

Well, this 2021 Chinese action movie was a little bit all over the place. It felt like director Tang Qiaojia was trying to go in multiple directions with the storyline all at once. But the end result was somewhat of a fractured storyline that was somehow lacking a proper red thread to guide the audience from A to B. That made the movie very random and erratic, and it felt like it was a mash-up of multiple randomly shot segments that were filmed independently of one another and then made into a movie.

I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble that performed in "One More Shot", but I will say that they managed to put on adequate enough performances, given the subpar storyline and script they had to work with.

If for nothing else, then "One More Shot" can be watched for the action and fighting alone. Forget about the scrambled heap that was supposed to resemble a storyline and just lean back in the seat and enjoy the action sequences.

"One More Shot" was by no means a milestone in Asian action cinema, and the movie came and went without leaving much of any lasting impression.

My rating of "One More Shot" lands on a very generous four out of ten stars.

...from ever watching this ridiculousness. It is patently absurd, with headache-inducing, over-the-top armies of machine gunners in repetitively choreographed long takes of senseless overkill. The two tasty chicks don't redeem the overall tedium of the drawn out melodrama where the bad guys keep the upper hand throughout the entire meaningless story line, which is insultingly nonsensical. More insult is heaped upon the viewer as the ultra slimy bad guy kicks the living dung out of the pathetic protagonist. The acting was horrendous and when it finally comes to an eye-rolling end there's nothing to think about other than the shame of having watched the whole thing.

Right off the bat it opens with a visceral action scene that is more creative and energetic than most of the major productions from Hollywood in the last 2 years. Sadly after that we get to the generic cliched part where we follow our protagonist coping with the loss of his wife and taking care of his sick girl. These obligatory 20 minutes of miserable melodrama are easily the worst part of the film that and everytime some character speaks in English but thank goodness they did not drag this part because for the rest of the movie it's pretty much non stop brutal action with some nice shootouts and a very impressive one on one fight inside of an elevator culminating in yet another one vs one with the main baddie that is less memorable compared to the previous one but still makes up for that with how brutal it gets.

There is a plot twist at the very end that you may or may not like. That and the completely unnecessary Sci-Fi element of the story are the film's major flaws. I don't mind thin storyline and underdevelopped characters as well as the occasional dodgy CGI.

One More Shot delivers on its promise as a dumb DTV balls to the wall actioner with crappy Sci-Fi elements that should satisfy most action movie fans.