classicsoncall Review of One More Shot

One More Shot (2024)

"What's the going rate now for betraying your country?"

[6/10 · 8 May 2024]

I almost turned this off after about fifteen minutes because it seemed like all gunfight and no story. I don't know what it is, but I've seen Scott Adkins in ten movies, and I still wouldn't be able to identify who he is in the next one. When some of the dust settled it became clear that this was about a rogue Homeland Security officer (Alexis Knapp) working in concert with a mercenary (Michael Jai White) to plant a dirty bomb at the President's State of the Union address. That was only a preliminary however, in order to extract high level access security codes from all the top government officials who would be whisked away to the same secure location when the plot was detected. Well guess what, the story ended with CIA agent Jake Harris (Adkins) taking out virtually all the bad guys, but by averting a dirty bomb from going off, the mercenaries from a private military organization named Farbridge still had a team in place to get the more important aspect of their conspiracy done. While the relentless pace of the film most likely will appeal to action fans, I don't see how an incomplete one does justice to anyone expecting a verifiable conclusion. Maybe that'll happen in 'One More, One More Shot', but by that tine, my attention span will have worn out.