20 Reasons Why You Rock: One More Shot
The fact that there isn’t currently a review or any other piece on this site about his movie is a crime. A crime against humanity. Which isn’t really something that is prosecuted or anything, but more something that everyone looks at with disgust. So in my attempt to rectify that injustice, here are 20 Reasons Why You Rock: One More Shot Edition.
#1. Is the whole ‘real time’ aspect of the film gimmicky? Yes, but it’s also totally awesome!
#2. Tom Berenger for the win. Always and forever.
#3. Seeing Scott Adkins and MJW in a movie together never gets old.
#4. Mercenaries in the airport! That could be a killer title for its own action flick.
#5.There is no fat to trim in this entry. One Shot took a little while to get to the action before it went balls to the wall, but One More Shot takes very little time to get the physicality and that makes for an extremely action-filled movie.
#6. Running knife tally: 5, maybe 6
#7. The chase in the first half of this movie really delivers. Adkins fighting his way through corridor after corridor of mercs. It’s an action-lover’s dream come true.
#8. Lots of mystery as to who is coordinating all of the chaos. Amin isn’t a good guy, no doubt, but him and Adkins have been through some shit by now. The questions about who is responsible for the leaks is a good one because it gives the action a chance to breathe.
#9. Normally I would agree that trusting the C.I.A. is a bad idea, but damn! Never trust a Gov’t lady!
#10. Adkins stalking the remaining mercs through the hallways like Michael Myers with 30 years of martial arts training.
#11. The best way to turn a terrorist bombmaker into a sympathetic character is to make him a daddy.
#12. Lt. Harris needs a vacation after this one.
#13. Waleed Elgadi as Amin and Meena Rayann as Niesha act the hell out of this movie.
#14. The Lomax character is way better in the second half of the film compared to the first half.
#15. Someone needs to just give James Nunn a boatload of money and have him do a Star Wars prison break movie or something. Keep this exact continuous shot thing going. Could be epic.
#16. Three fights between Scott Adkins and Aaron Toney….please, and thank you.
#17. Is the One Shot series the DTV Die Hard?
#18. I love me some Michael Jai White but he seems like a better villain to me than a good guy. He’s too unstoppable to be the babyface. He gives off that Bolo Yeung vibe so well as a baddie.
#19. While the Toney/Adkins fights were the shit, we kind of just got teased with the MJW action. Let’s all hope that One Last Shot (my working title) will deliver another dustup between the two.
#20. I’ve mentioned the Die Hard vibes of being in the wrong place at the wrong time, but I probably see more of the Under Siege flavor in it. Considering those are two of the most excellent action movies of my lifetime, that’s some high praise.
