While I’m highly lukewarm on this action flick, I genuinely would understand if its someone’s favorite. It’s well-executed, technically impressive, and I guess the moment-to-moment gun and fist fights are well executed. But I found it tiresome, repetitive, and was happy when it was over.

The flick is about a marine trying to keep someone alive while trying to stop a terrorist bombing of Washington DC. Unfortunately the bad guys have employed a million zillion mercenaries to stop him. And it all takes place in real-time and in one (faked) single shot.

There’s a reason editors exist to cut out the boring bits that happen in between the exciting bits. This film proves that. Keeping the tension and action up in a real-time film is a challenge this film wasn’t up to. There’s way too much slog between dialog or action.

Of note, this flick is a sequel to a movie I didn’t see called One Shot. Maybe that was obvious to normal hu-mans but it was just another movie on Netflix to me. Which means maybe I was missing the deep-seated lore and backgrounds of these clearly complicated characters. But I have doubts.

This flick had its exciting moments but all that tedium in between interesting scenes had me checked out by the half-way point. A lot of the action moments started to feel the same and I stopped caring or even appreciated the technical prowess. This flick probably feels like what the Extraction films feel like to people who don’t like the Extraction films.

Score: 72