One Shot

one shotDirector James Nunn
Stars Scott Adkins Ashley Greene & Ryan Phillippe
Rated MA
Score 3/6

An elite squad of Navy SEAL’s, on a covert mission to transport a prisoner off a CIA black site island prison, are trapped when insurgents attack while trying to rescue the same prisoner.

Okay, I think that has been more then a few years since I last watched a movie starring either Ashley Greene or Ryan Phillippe. Though One Shot seems to have been largely ignored at the box office I suppose the decision to watch this was based on the fact that One Shot was supposedly shot it one shot. Though if you investigate it there are claims that the movie was only edited to look like it was done in one shot. Apparently, this is the third time that director James Nunn and Scott Adkins have worked together in 2013 on Green Street 3: Never Back Down (I believe that Green Street 3 is a faux sequel and should not have been added to the Green Street franchise).
One Shot certainly is a watchable movie though I doubt I will be watching it again any time soon with some creative action sequences and in places One Shot does have a computer game feel to it. This is exactly the sort of thing that you would expect from Adkins who had more lots of opportunities to flex his muscles as an action star. Jess Liaudin has a great menacing presence. It was good to see that Ashley Greene’s was something more than just the stereotypical damsel in distress and had a decent character arc.




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