One Shot

Sometimes you ask yourself how actors still get a paycheck... well quit simple by doing movies like this one. There is nothing new here its been done a lots of times and a lot better, its a z grade movie with b actors.

As a filmmaker, I am simply blown away!!! I finished watching the movie half an hour ago and I still can't believe it was shot in one take. The only other film that claimed to have been shot in one take was Hitchcock's Robe, but even that has a few debatable cuts. I was about a third way into this movie, One Shot, when I realized there were not cuts yet. By then I was impressed so I paused to see what was the name of the movie I was watching and it read "One Shot". That's when I realized that the title was a double entendre. It's mind boggling when you think about it. Everyone and everything was on point! The acting, dialog, the camera movements, the explosions, the choreography and the fluidity... Everything. Congratulations to everyone involved for achieving the impossible! This movie will be discussed in film school for decades to come.

A low B-class movie about "elite US soldiers having trouble" as usual. Secret base, russian speaking enemy and whole USMC battalion (wearing weird uniforms) that is wiped by couple of guys with AK's. Plot is linear, obvious and lack of suspense nor surprise. Movie would be a good material for some game cutscenes. Dialogs are a crunchy cardboard, acting is best what couple of McDonalds Happy meals can buy. Overall a waste of time unless you like bland cardboard type movies. I give second star just because location is post soviet poland related.

It was a decent shootem up I guess. You can always pick apart most movies like this. But there's just a couple of things I can't let go, like trained Seals hiding from rifle gun fire behind empty or liquid filled 55 gallon drums. But the one that bothers me the most is this takes place on an island, bad guys show up in a truck, a truck not a boat! There's probably 60 guys in this one truck? They also have unlimited ammo. It was entertainment.

I turned it off after 23 minutes. It's essentially trying to piggy back on the 'one shot' success of 1917... but without the same calibre of actors, the dialogue, the execution of the lines, the tension, the story, the set scenes or the financial backing. The sort of film you'd find in a battered old VHS case in the bottom of the bargain bin in Blockbusters.