According to author and famed writing teacher, John Gardner, all fictional stories can be boiled down to one of two plots: someone leaves town, someone comes to town. (OR maybe you subscribe to Christopher Booker’s Seven Basic Plots approach, or one of the many other theories, but for our purposes today, we’ll stick with Gardner.) Hellfire, the latest from direct-to-video action auteur Isaac Florentine (Ninja: Shadow of a Tear, Undisputed 2 and 3), follows this formula to a tee.
Scott Adkins, Isaac Florentine, Mario Van Peebles in a cowboy hat? The upcoming action/revenge movie Seized has all of that, which is more than enough to get me fully on board. I don’t know how I let this trailer slip by, but damn, it’s here now and that’s all that matters.
Anytime you mention the names Scott Adkins and IsaacFlorentine in the same breath, you have my undivided attention. Whenever the
two team up, like with Ninja: Shadow of a Tear, it’s a
monumental occasion, but when it’s for Boyka: Undisputed,
their third Undisputed film (the fourth overall), well
goddamn, I get fully stoked. It’s only 14-seconds, but Adkins dropped a new teaser trailer, and it’s awesome. Check it out after the jump.
Any time there’s news about a Scott Adkins movie, that’s a big
day for me. He’s one of the premiere cinematic badasses currently working
anywhere in the world, and he’s responsible for some of the best gritty, old
school actioners of the last few years. When he teams with director Isaac
Florentine, that’s even better, as the two have teamed up on such modern
classics as Ninja 2: Shadow of a Tear and
Undisputed 3. Now they’re back with Close
Range, and you can check out a brand new trailer after the jump.