[Movie] ONE LAST SHOT
Honestly, if you're coming into this movie expecting a complicated Oscar-level story, you might want to lower those expectations immediately.... But if you're here because you want to watch Scott Adkins beat the living daylights out of people for almost 100 minutes... Then Welcome home.
One Last Shot is the third movie in the action series that started with One Shot and continued with One More Shot. Scott Adkins returns as Jake Harris, the exhausted Navy SEAL who basically cannot catch a break and honestly, the man looks tired.
Jake just wants to go home and get some rest after everything that happened before.
Of course, the government has other plans... A former SEAL named Elliot Carter, played by Steven Cree, has gone rogue and launches a plan that could give him control of America's missile defense system. The Joint Chiefs of Staff are taken hostage, nuclear codes are involved, and suddenly Jake is dragged back into another massive operation.
What makes One Last Shot interesting is the way it continues the franchise's biggest gimmick.. the single-take action style.
The movie is designed to feel like one continuous shot, with the camera moving through corridors, buildings and battlefields while the action happens around it and when it works... It REALLY works.
The gunfights are chaotic without becoming impossible to follow, and the hand-to-hand combat is probably the best reason to watch this movie.
Scott Adkins is obviously in his element.... This man doesn't need a motivational speech before a fight.... Give him five seconds and somebody is getting kicked through a wall.
The choreography is excellent, and there are some proper physical fights here that reminded me why Adkins is one of those action stars who deserves more recognition.
There's also a fight involving Kane Kosugi that I particularly enjoyed, and the movie throws in some impressive stunt work, including an ATV chase and some pretty crazy movement involving boats and docks but here's where I think the movie loses a few points.
The story is doing a lot of work just to get us to the next fight... There's this whole plot involving terrorists, the Joint Chiefs, nuclear defense systems, disgruntled military personnel and Jake's history with Carter.
It's not terrible.... It's just not the reason I'm watching this movie.
The story basically exists to say..
“Okay, enough talking. Let's get Scott Adkins into another room with 15 armed men.”
The movie actually takes a little while before going completely crazy with the action. The opening section is more focused on stealth, planning and the team trying to breach the compound.
I actually appreciated that... It gives the movie some tension instead of immediately throwing explosions at you and when the action finally kicks into full gear, it doesn't really stop.
There are shootouts, close-quarter fights, tactical movements, traps and some really good choreography.
Dolph Lundgren also shows up as Admiral Mulholland, and although he doesn't dominate the movie, his presence gives the whole thing that old-school action movie feeling.
One thing I found interesting is that underneath all the shooting and explosions, the movie does try to touch on loyalty.
Who do you actually owe your loyalty to?
Your country?
The government?
Your fellow soldiers? Or the people standing beside you?
Those ideas are there, but the movie doesn't really explore them deeply. It mostly uses them to add some emotional weight to the action. One review similarly noted that the film raises questions about loyalty and how governments treat soldiers but doesn't spend much time digging into them and honestly, that's probably fine because this is not Oppenheimer....
This is Scott Adkins running through a compound and turning bad guys into furniture.
The biggest weakness for me is that the single-take gimmick can sometimes become a little exhausting. It's impressive technically, but there are moments when you start noticing the choreography more than the story.
Still, the action itself is so well executed that I didn't really mind.
Truthfully, One Last Shot is not trying to give you ten complicated plot twists... It just gives you Scott Adkins, guns, hand-to-hand combat, military operations, long takes and a ridiculous amount of people trying to kill one very tired Navy SEAL...
Rating: 75/100
Originally posted through scrobble.life/movies.
Thank you for the warm welcome home ☺️. I can already imagine all the suspense and initial planning leading up to the real action scenes—shootouts and hand-to-hand combat.
Loyalty is a delicate matter, but especially when it comes to family—those who are there, on the front lines, every day and unconditionally. There are very few who are truly unconditional.