One Shot (2021)
- Country: United Kingdom
- Action Director: Dan Styles, Tim Man
- Directed by: James Nunn
- Starring: Andrei Maniata, Ashley Greene, Dino Kelly, Emmanuel Imani, Jack Parr, Jess Liaudin, Lee Charles, Ryan Phillippe, Scott Adkins, Terence Maynard, Waleed Elgadi
Taut, enveloping, and very well crafted ‘one-take’ action film which absolutely delivers on its real-time premise. The technique has been explored in Hollywood in recent years in the Academy Award-winning Birdman (2014) and 1917 (2019). The sheer audacity of indie filmmaker James Nunn and martial arts star Scott Adkins (who last worked together on 2016’s Eliminators) to even attempt to do a similar thing on a comparatively minuscule budget is worthy of your admiration; the fact they actually manage to pull it off is nothing short of miraculous. There are shades of Extraction star Chris Hemsworth in Adkins’ Jake Harris – …
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