One Shot (2021)

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I don't know if the continuous shot is the new found footage, but the gimmick is always rather impressive, especially if you can't see the joins. There is one obvious place One Shot stops rolling tape, after an explosion requiring a set redress, but otherwise, you could well imagine this as a tightly choreographed actioner, rehearsed then shot as one continuous "play" (or two), with at least one action sequence very reminiscent of John Wick. Because continuous shots suggest real time, what can suffer, especially in plot-centric genres like action, is the story (different from plot). Here, Navy SEALs have to extract a reputed terrorist from a CIA black site to stop a terror attack, but the people who don't want him to talk attack the place with what looks like an entire army. There are a lot of moving pieces, and we're told everything we need to know, when we need to know it, but that story is necessarily thin. I'm into the procedural feeling of the movie, but when there's this much action, and for the most part, it's "real world" action, my eyes tend to glaze over during those sequences. In other words, if it didn't have its gimmick, it wouldn't be worth mentioning. 1 year 10 months ago