Star Scott Adkins and director Jesse V. Johnson's eighth film together. What I've learned from watching several of their films lately is that they are breezy, unpretentious, and have way above-average fight scenes. The shootouts are average, but the hand-to-hand fight sequences are seriously just as good as anything in JOHN WICK. I know Adkins is a solid action star outside of Johnson's films, as seen by his memorable part in JOHN WICK 4 (wearing a fat suit) as the obese and limber gambler Killa, but I need to watch something by Johnson without Adkins to see if he handles action scenes as well without his star. In this film in particular, Adkins and Louis Mandylor once again team up to collect a bunch of debts and get into a lot of fights. One alleyway brawl seemed to make nods to John Carpenter's THEY LIVE, which was fun. I think the main disappointment with the film was that it chose to end with a rather average shootout instead of a hand-to-hand knockdown fight, which is what Adkins and Johnson excel at.
Review of Debt Collectors
