29 Responses to “The Return of Florentine and Adkins”

1. 

   The Undefeated Gaul

   February 11th, 2015 at 1:41 am

   Footage seems pretty rough (green screen windows?) but it already looks great. Can’t wait for this.

2. 

   brchthe3rd

   February 11th, 2015 at 2:17 am

   And, for the second time in a row a video that you shared has been taken down.

3. 

   Shoot McKay

   February 11th, 2015 at 2:52 am

   Someone must have seen TOM YUM GOONG for that one long take.

4. 

   Charles

   February 11th, 2015 at 9:22 am

   I like it. You can see the influence of THE RAID in this clip for sure. Not that, that is bad thing.

5. 

   KingNewbs

   February 11th, 2015 at 9:32 am

   Dang it, the video’s gone. Vern could you add the title of the movie to this article or something so I can try and find it?

6. 

   KingNewbs

   February 11th, 2015 at 9:32 am

   Is it CLOSE RANGE?

7. 

   KingNewbs

   February 11th, 2015 at 9:36 am

   Working link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIQWR7qQzvQ

   That was fucking awesome.

8. 

   Crushinator Jones

   February 11th, 2015 at 5:08 pm

   FuuuuuuuUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAACK!

9. 

   brchthe3rd

   February 11th, 2015 at 6:58 pm

   If the entire movie CLOSE RANGE is as good as the clip suggests, it should be pretty awesome. Isaac Florentine and Scott Adkins have yet to let me down in delivering a solid action film.

10. 

    RandomAnon

    February 12th, 2015 at 6:27 am

    Good stuff.

    All the badguys wearing cowboy hats is very silly though

11. 

    Sternshein

    February 12th, 2015 at 8:43 am

    Influence? More like thievery to me. I don’t know what it is but I have little enthusiasm for this. Maybe it’s because Ninja 2 was so boring or what. Not to mention how ridiculous the bad guys looked. He shouldn’t be attacking a Rancho band for no reason. Kind of racist if you ask me :)

12. 

    Charles

    February 12th, 2015 at 9:31 am

    For those you making fun of how the bad guys looked in the clip I would point out that there are hundreds of thousands of people in Texas and Mexico that would take offense with you calling their outfits and cowboy hats ridiculous. Don’t get me wrong, Micheal Bay is going to direct an intimate family drama set all in one small location with limited camera movement and cuts before you catch me in a cowboy hat but it is a real look people are actually into.*

    *There is one exception I once dressed as Macho Man Randy Savage for Halloween and a cowboy hat was needed to complete the look.

13. 

    Mr. Majestyk

    February 12th, 2015 at 10:02 am

    Have you guys seen those long-ass curving elf boots lots of Mexican cowboys wear? There is literally no way that a costume director can go too over-the-top or on-the-nose in depicting the fashion sense of that particular demographic.

14. 

    Broddie

    February 12th, 2015 at 10:29 am

    Sternshein – “He shouldn’t be attacking a Rancho band for no reason.”

    Unless it’s Los Tigres del Norte. Some of those jerks deserve any ass whupping they may receive.

15. 

    Chitown

    February 12th, 2015 at 12:08 pm

    Now that’s a fucking trailer!!!!!

16. 

    Charles

    February 12th, 2015 at 1:02 pm

    Your exactly right Mr. M, I guarantee there are guys involved with the Mexican cartel that make the fashion sense of the baddies in this clip seem tame by comparison. For one I didn’t see any over sized gaudy belt buckles in the clip.

17. 

    Knox Harrington

    February 13th, 2015 at 3:28 am

    Scott Adkins: Still one of the only people in the world who can pull off the goatee look.

18. 

    pegsman

    February 13th, 2015 at 4:19 am

    Oh, I think there are a few of us…

19. 

    Felix

    November 5th, 2015 at 10:45 pm

    Review for AT CLOSE RANGE is up.

    http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/11/05/close-range-review-scott-adkins-and-isaac-florentine-sadly-miss-their-mark

20. 

    karlos

    November 29th, 2015 at 3:30 am

    I liked CLOSE RANGE more than the above reviewer, even though I agree it’s a step down for Adkins & Florentine after NINJA: THE SECOND NINJA FILM.

    It’s almost *too* lean – the script is bare bones, the characterisation is slim across the board, and it feels like a “small” film.

    But there’s stuff here the Vern collective will surely dig: the action is plentiful and cut and shot fluidly and clearly, Adkins is as good as ever – all in all, it’s a fun 80 minutes or so.

21. 

    Shoot McKay

    December 9th, 2015 at 6:25 am

    This is a nice placeholder for UNDISPUTED 4. It is sparse, simple, fast with plenty of indoors close range fisticuffs and gunplay. It is very generic, but the film is saved by the cut-out-the-bullshit-appraoch of filmmaking which is evident here. I can see myself return to this film for some sweet asskicking over the coming months, like having in the background doing something else.

    I don´t think it is “too lean”, there is nothing there that would made the movie better by elaborating. It´s not an interesting, innovative story. It is a simple excuse to have a bunch of dudes, kicking and shooting within close range. I liked it.

22. 

    Vern

    December 9th, 2015 at 9:50 am

    I hope you mean CLOSE RANGE and that you saw it on VOD because everybody torrenting UNDISPUTED 3 is why we’ve waited so long for 4.

23. 

    Shoot McKay

    December 9th, 2015 at 10:04 am

    Isn´t it available in the U.S? Overhere it is available on VOD and dvd/bluray.

24. 

    Vern

    December 9th, 2015 at 4:20 pm

    UNDISPUTED 4? Or CLOSE RANGE? The latter I think is on VOD here (on disc January 5) and the former is about to have a teaser trailer released but has no release date as far as I can find.

25. 

    pegsman

    December 9th, 2015 at 11:51 pm

    CLOSE RANGE is available on pay-TV and cable here in Norway. If a movie doesn’t get a cinema release it’s on Viaplay or something in just days. I would hope some of the money we pay for watching it ends up with Florentine and Adkins.

26. 

    Shoot McKay

    December 10th, 2015 at 1:09 am

    I highly doubt it, pegsman. I think it is very little return for them to their pockets. To finance these films are from what I understand incredibly complex solutions featuring many different lables, ditribution deals just to finance them. Unfortunately people downloading them forces alternate means of financing which often means the movie gets made in the end, but the more people involved means less money over all. Pleasse, correct me if I am wrong.

    But purchasing the movie can at least display that there is a market for these films, and peole willing to pay.

27. 

    Vern

    December 10th, 2015 at 1:37 am

    Watching it on cable is legit, though. I didn’t mean to cast aspersions. I just don’t want anyone promoting the torrenting of movies like that around here. We want to see more Florentine and Adkins movies and we know it’s a struggle, so we have to do what we can to make the business model work for them. I just want to make sure we’re all on the same page on that.

    (and I was confused because you wrote UNDISPUTED 4, but I figured you probly meant the other one.)

28. 

    Shoot McKay

    December 10th, 2015 at 1:48 am

    Ok, now I know what you meant, Vern. I may not have articulated myself well, but what I meant was CLOSE RANGE as something to get into while waiting for UNDISPUTED 4. I should have written “CLOSE RANGE is a nice placeholder for UNDISPUTED 4”. I thought that was what placeholder meant, something in place for something else.

29. 

    pegsman

    December 10th, 2015 at 4:46 am

    The boring business aspect aside, I like the movie. Maybe even better than Shoot “Johan Falk” McKay does.