Harris and three other SEALs and a CIA analyst (“Twilight” alumna Ashley Greene, billed as Ashley Green Khoury here) to “Black Island” to retrieve a detainee ( Waleed Elgadi) who might know something about an imminent terrorist attack. It’s still impressive, here and there, the sweeping hand-held tracking shots that brings Lt. That gets your attention, although in the hands of director James Nunn (sequels to “The Marine” and “Green Street,” “Tower Block”) it is used in ways that doesn’t put the viewer on edge by building suspense. The gimmick built into this thriller starring B-movie badass Scott Adkins (“Debt Collectors,” “Expendables 2”) is that it’s filmed in a long of long takes, the film buff’s beloved “One Shot.” on display in the movie’s trailers, too, but taken to its logical extreme in a few films over the years, most recently “1917.” I laughed at all the bulky mugs toting AK-47s pouring out from under the canvas flap on this truck, which is a “Stargate” wormhole into Mercenaries-R-Us, from the looks of it. We all laugh at all the clowns that pile out of a clown car. In “One Shot,” a single Eastern Bloc troop truck offloads what seems like 127 mercenary/terrorists onto a stony CIA “black island” in the Baltic, armed men of many cultures and languages there to break an accused terrorist out of a “black ops” prison. “One Shot” throws a fresh goof into the cinema fan’s lexicon. You remember the six-shooter that magically fired 41 times in Westerns of yore, today embodied by a sloppy movie’s “endless” gun clip in combat or cop thrillers?
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