Another week, another direct-to-video action-thriller. Lately, many of these stars either Aaron Eckhart or Olga Kurylenko, and director Jesse V. Johnson’s Chief of Station happens to feature both. (It truly only stars Eckhart, with Kurylenko relegated to a supporting role, but we’ll take it.)
Epic scope and scale on a bargain-basement budget. That might be the best way to describe DTV action auteur Jesse V. Johnson’s newest film, Boudica: Queen of War, starring Olga Kurylenko, who has carved quite a niche for herself in this realm.
Stolen gold. Nazi conspiracies. Tangled webs of greed, betrayal, and vengeance. Jesse V. Johnson’s Hell Hath No Fury hath damn near everything a historical action thriller needs.
Around these parts, we stan Scott Adkins. Especially when the British martial artist teams up with director Jesse V. Johnson. They’re like the current power duo of DTV badassery. (Triple Threat, Savage Dog, Accident Man.) Now the pair returns with Debt Collectors, the sequel to their 2018 offering, The Debt Collector. Check out the first trailer below.
To give you an idea of the level of brutality in Avengement, the latest team-up from star Scott Adkins and director Jesse V. Johnson, at one point Adkins’ character, Cain Burgess, straight up bites out a dude’s jugular with a ferocious snarl. And no, this isn’t a vampire movie. This is a gritty, mean, down and dirty crime story about gritty, mean, down and dirty criminals. It’s also Johnson’s most ambitious film to date, as well as maybe his best.
We’re big Scott Adkins stans around these parts. He’s one of
the best movie martial artists working right now and, outside of a few dalliances
with big time Hollywood blockbusters like Doctor Strange, he
almost exclusively makes the kind of mid-tier actioners that haven’t been
mainstream since the ‘80s and ‘90s. Today marks the release of his epic team up
Triple Threat, which you should watch ASAP, but he has
another badass project on the way, the prison revenge movie
Avengement. Watch the first trailer below.
There’s a scene in Triple Threat where Tony Jaa fights Scott Adkins, then Tony Jaa and Iko Uwais fight Scott Adkins, then Tony Jaa fights Scott Adkins solo again. A scene. Actually, not even a scene, it’s a sequence within a scene. If that’s not enough to convince you to watch a movie, keep reading, I’ll try harder.
Though it feels like it’s been coming forever, Triple Threat finally hits theaters next week for a one-day extravaganza of face-punching mayhem before it lands on VOD. Frequent visitors to this site know well how much this movie makes me salivate. And we have a new clip that should do the same for you. Check it out below.
Happy Valentine’s Day! While some choose to celebrate this holiday with candy, candlelight, and other romantic markers, I prefer the way the good folks behind Triple Threat like to party, with face kicking, spinning elbows, flying knees, and general badass action mayhem. Yes, the full Triple Threat trailer promised a few days ago has arrived, and all I can say is, “Hell Yes!” to what is apparently “the killingest action event of the year.”
Under normal circumstances, I’m not inclined to share trailers for trailers That’s generally a ridiculous practice and sharing actual trailers is problematic enough. (I’m a fan, they get me hyped, but I now many folks who avoid them like the plague—to each his own.) That said, I’m all kinds of jacked up for Triple Threat, there’s a new trailer coming Thursday, and there’s a teaser for that impending preview. And here it is.
It probably comes as no surprise I’m excited about a Scott
Adkins movie. In fact, The Debt Collector landed on my most anticipated movies list for 2018. But now we have a trailer, and it’s not only suitably
badass to fit in the cinematic martial artist’s resume, it takes him to places
he doesn’t usually go. Check it out below.
When you think comic book movies, you probably think dudes
in tights and sky portals and that sort of nonsense. But there are also things
like crews of assassins to be found on the funny book pages, which is just what
we get from this Accident Man trailer. To be fair, that’s
not why I’m psyched about this movie. I’m psyched about this because of Scott Adkins. He’s one of the baddest dudes on the planet, this is one of his passion
projects, and he’s not only stars, he co-wrote the script.
Triple Threat is all of my favorite
things wrapped up in one convenient package. Action, martial arts, gunplay. Oh,
and it stars every cinematic badass currently working. The credits include Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, Tiger Chen, Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White, JeeJa Yanin,
Michael Wong, Michael Bisping, and Celina Jade. I hope I didn’t forget anyone,
but I may have, the list is long and distinguished. As you may imagine, I’m
beyond excited for Triple Threat, and that anticipation just
took another huge leap forward with the first trailer. Check it out after the jump.
Cinematic face-breakers Tony Jaa, Iko Uwais, and Tiger Chen
have been trying to work on a film together for a while now. They had
Makeshift Squad, billed as an “Asian
Expendables,” lined up, but that has yet to materialize.
After that, we heard reports of Triple Threat, to be directed
by John Wick: Chapter 2 helmer Chad Stahelski. That also
failed to get off the starting blocks. But the trio of preeminent movie martial
artists are back at it again, reportedly attached to a new project, also titled
Triple Threat, and they’re bringing reinforcements in the form
of Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White, and UFC Middleweight champion Michael
Bisping. Yeah, It’s like they asked me what I want in a movie and did exactly
what I said. It almost brings a tear to my eye it’s so beautiful.
This probably isn’t surprising to anyone, but I’ve kept a
close eye on the Scott Adkins/Marko Zaror-starring action joint Savage Dog since the first rumblings. Come on, it stars Scott Adkins and
Marko Zaror. That alone is enough to make me watch anything. I’d watch them
sitting around drinking coffee and chatting about the weather. Fortunately,
there’s way more to Savage Dog than that, as confirmed by
this new trailer.
If you haven’t had any good news yet today (that Michael B. Jordan/Black Panther news is pretty sweet), don’t worry, I
have some for you. Two of the baddest dudes currently working in movies, ScottAdkins and Marko Zaror, are getting back together for a movie called
Savage Dog. There’s not actually much more to tell, but god
damn, isn’t that enough for you?