There’s a whole lot of ammo going blammo over the course of “One Shot,” an action movie couched as a battle in real time between Navy SEALs and insurgents on a U.S.-controlled, Guantanamo-style isl…
does effectively use that device to heighten immediacy in an effort that may not transcend their usual B-grade, adrenaline-fueled macho fare, but does bring some welcome novelty to the genre.
It soon emerges, however, that while he protests his innocence, Mansur — first met in a state of brutalized interrogative distress — is suspected of knowing details about a planned dirty-bomb attack that could take out all three branches of U.S. government. To prevent “another 9/11,” he needs to be airlifted out immediately. But before that can happen, the well-guarded base is completely overrun by armed insurgents under the command of ruthless Charef .
If the seemingly never-ending pileup of dead extras sometimes makes this feel like a first-person-shooter videogame , we nonetheless get strong-enough central figures to identify with. And the action is at its best when Adkins is being an army of one, whether in a long midsection set-piece quietly dispatching many perps via knife, or in several late mano-a-mano fights that finally tap some of the star’s martial arts skills.
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