Wednesday, July 17, 2024

'Eliminators' (2016) – James Nunn.

Blowing his witness protection cover by killing three home invading skells, Teflon tough former agent Thomas (Scott Adkins) is forced to run with his daughter, as the unwanted publicity leads a vicious assassin (Wade Barrett) directly to them. The perfunctory plot provides the meagre skeleton for the film's real meat, which is Scott Adkins kicking every Mofo's ass backwards, and this is done most spectacularly in James Nunn's explosive, bullet-paced British B-actioner 'Eliminators'. There's little point in drawing attention to the film's narrative deficiencies, as Eliminators succeeds so splendidly with its more noisome, blood-spattered interludes. A master Kung Fu destroyer who protects his beloved kin with dazzling displays of Promethean martial artistry is always watchable fare, and very few do it quite as proficiently as handsome heroic head knocker Scott Adkins. Eliminators packs quite a punch, and rarely lets up the pace when the tense cat and mouse routine reaches full strength. That said, to be fair, in this specific case it is demonstratively more like Lion & Leopard! 

You're a worthy adversary, I'll give you that!!!”

 







 

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