This week, Netflix US Top 10 has a new addition: the action thriller “One More Shot,” which has debuted in the eight position of the charts, according to FlixPatrol. The British film is the sequel of “One Shot,” and it stars Scott Adkins as Navy Seal Jake Harris.
The movie follows Adkins as he has to accompany a terrorist suspect, Amin Mansur (Waleed Elgadi), to Washington D.C. for intensive interrogation. Of course, the process of transferring the prisoner won’t be easy, and he will have to fight an army of mercenaries.
If the plot sounds familiar, it is because it kind of resembles another Netflix’s hit, Chris Hemsworth’s “Extraction.” However, “One More Shot” has interesting tricks under its sleeve. For one, this action thriller filmed in a way to make it seem like it was made in a single continuous take.
All you need to know about ‘One More Shot’, the Netflix’s new trending film
The movie is directed by James Nunn, who also helmed the first film. “The intention for this movie was to feel bigger and better than the first one,” the director told Action Reloaded. “I’ve always wanted the franchise to feel like a kind of video game trilogy movie,” he explained.
According to Nunn, the first one feels like “concrete, gray, green, cold movie,” and that he wanted to change the visuals for the second to emulate what it feels like when you pass a level in a video game. After thinking about the concept, he said he wanted to set the second one in the airport because “it is just so cinematic, and visual and feels big-budget,” and even as little homage to “Die Hard 2.”
Apart from Adkins and Elgadi, the movie also stars Michael Jai White, Alexis Knapp, Tom Berenger, Hannah Arterton, Meena Rayann, Jill Winternitz, and Neil Linpow. Nunn also revealed to Action Reloaded that Harris’ role was written with Adkins in mind, which definitely helps to use the actor’s strengths in the performance.
What are critics saying about ‘One More Shot’?
Cath Clarke of The Guardian highlighted that the fake-sequence shot “adds some real-time intensity to the fighting” and did believe the film looked like a “video game,” but that wasn’t necessarily to its favor. The critic thought that the movie was “violent, boring and a bit soulless.”
Other critics, such as Sean Chandler, were more forgiving. While criticizing the “clunky dialogue and weak performances,” as well as the compromising quality of some scenes, he thinks the film “provides a unique” experience.