Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday (2022)

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On almost every metric, Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday is better than the original. Setting Scott Adkins' continuing story on Malta is more exotic and visually stimulating. The narration is still there, but tamped down and more relevant/less awkward. There are way more murder "accidents", even if, once again, Adkins does a lot of martial arts once the plot gets going, but the action is more interesting, the camera work more exciting, and the foes more outlandish. It feels more like a comic book (complimentary). There's a tighter camaraderie between the "goodies" (including some surviving members of the previous cast). It's funnier, too. I was, of course, not a fan of the privileged twit Adkins has to protect in order to save his partner (and yay, he brings a gross scatological gag with him that I could do without), but even that seems dosed in a proportion that sits well with me. After the lackluster first film, I'm surprised to hear myself ask: "Where to next?" 4 months 2 weeks ago