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One Last Shot
One Last Shot is bare-knuckle military action built for people who want fists and firepower over spycraft. Scott Adkins headlines as a Navy SEAL squaring off against his own disillusioned brother-in-arms, with Dolph Lundgren barking orders from the top. Expect tight fight choreography, ticking-clock stakes around a missile defense system, and the straightforward pleasures of a DTV action machine doing exactly what it promises.
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Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning2012
Puts Scott Adkins in the ring against Dolph Lundgren themselves, and the fight choreography is some of the most brutal, bone-crunching work either has ever done on screen — a genuine showcase for both stars.
But The sci-fi memory-wipe plot is thin and the tone swings wildly between grindhouse horror and action, which won't suit everyone.
Boyka: Undisputed IV2016no page yet
Widely considered Adkins' career-best physical performance — no wires, no stunt double, just relentless full-contact fight scenes stitched into a surprisingly earnest redemption story.
But It's a prison-fighting drama, not a military thriller, so the missile-defense-stakes crowd might miss the geopolitical tension entirely.
Under Siege1992
Mercenaries seize a US Navy battleship and only one former SEAL cook can stop them — a blueprint for exactly this kind of trusted-insider-turned-traitor siege thriller, done with real 90s muscle.
But Seagal's aikido-heavy fighting style is much slower and less acrobatic than Adkins', if you're here purely for the martial arts.
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Fail Safe1964
Same premise as One Last Shot's missile-defense stakes, stripped of all action-movie comfort — this is what 'one system failure could end everything' looks like played completely straight, decades before CGI could dress it up.
A Cold War-era nuclear thriller where a technical glitch sends a bomber toward Moscow, and the tension comes entirely from procedure, phone calls and impossible choices — no fists, just dread.
But It's black-and-white, dialogue-heavy and deliberately anti-spectacle; anyone wanting Adkins-style fight choreography will find nothing here.
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Broken Arrow1996no page yet
A disillusioned Air Force officer turns rogue with stolen nuclear warheads, and the film mines exactly the same betrayed-friendship-turned-countdown-to-catastrophe tension.
But John Woo's stylised gunplay and slow-motion excess feels dated next to the grittier, grounded fight style Adkins fans expect.
Crimson Tide1995
A submarine standoff over a possible unauthorized missile launch turns into a tense two-hander between Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman — command-structure paranoia at its sharpest.
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Olympus Has Fallen2013no page yet
A disgraced ex-Secret Service agent single-handedly retakes a captured White House while a nuclear defense code hangs in the balance — pure large-scale siege spectacle.
But It leans hard into over-the-top jingoism and CGI destruction rather than the tighter, more physical combat this crowd tends to prefer.
The Rock1996
A rogue general threatens San Francisco with chemical missiles from a hijacked island fortress, and Ed Harris makes the disillusioned-soldier-gone-bad antagonist genuinely sympathetic.
But It's more buddy-comedy caper than combat showcase, with Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage carrying much of the film on charm rather than fists.
Air Force One1997
Harrison Ford's president turns reluctant one-man army when hijackers seize his plane, proving the lone-soldier-against-overwhelming-odds formula works just as well at 30,000 feet.
But The mid-90s CGI plane effects have aged badly, and it's talkier than a straight fight-driven actioner.
Accident Man2018no page yet
Another Adkins vehicle, this time as a wisecracking contract killer navigating a world of rival assassins — lighter, funnier, but still packed with his signature fight craft.
But The stakes are personal and small-scale rather than global, so it's a noticeable shift down in scope and seriousness.
Das Boot1981
Where One Last Shot's disillusioned soldier is a plot engine for action, Das Boot spends its entire runtime asking what disillusionment with command actually feels like from inside the uniform.
A claustrophobic, exhausting German U-boat epic that puts you inside the machinery and moral cost of military service in a way few action films dare.
But It's over three hours, subtitled, and has essentially zero triumphant heroics — the opposite of a crowd-pleasing shootout.
In the Loop2009
It's the same nervous who's-actually-in-control-of-the-button anxiety that powers Jake Harris's mission, just aimed at the men behind the desks instead of the men with the guns.
A vicious political satire about bumbling officials sleepwalking toward war, proving the one-bad-decision-triggers-catastrophe premise is just as gripping played for savage comedy.
But There's no missile silo, no fight scene, and no hero — just bureaucrats swearing at each other in meeting rooms.
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Cast
Scott AdkinsJake Harris
Steven CreeElliot Carter
Hannah WareElena Torres
Dolph LundgrenAdmiral Mulholland
Kane KosugiLee
Neil LinpowLong
Ray FearonRobinson
Tom DunneGreene
Michel CurielPerez
Tom LeighJericho
Jack TruemanPhillips
Sofian FrancisFlynn