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You won't find any quick cuts to the action if you're familiar with anything that Adkins has been a part of.

The stakes have been significantly increased in Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday. There is no such thing as "too much action" in this movie, as the director takes advantage of every opportunity to add an original battle sequence into the mix of events. This is a very funny movie, which is of equal importance. As a result of this eccentric cast of individuals, the movie is lively and amusing. There are times when you will find yourself chortling and laughing out loud.

So, as an Adkins fan, i love this one too much.

I enjoyed this movie. Not the best action movie, not even amongst Scott Adkins's best, but still a fun watch. The first movie was a nice surprise when I saw it, and I didn't know there were going to make a sequel, so there goes another nice one.

Accident Man was a violent, well-choreographed martial arts thriller film, with some dark humour hints here and there, but the sequel is more of a comedy, making fun of buddy movies, secret agencies flicks such as 007 or Mission: Impossible and the like. It's like a spoof of many clichéd movies but still they were trying to make an original story and not a collage of previous actioneers.

Overall I think the first one was better than this sequel, but AC2 - Hitman's Holiday is a decent, funny, not too smart but not too dumb, reasonably enjoyable martial arts action flick that goes to show not every action flick is unworthy of your precious time. Watch it with a beer and some popcorn or chips and most of all, with an open mind and not expecting too much of it.

I watched as Accident Man - Hitmans Holiday. Didn't know it was a sequel.

What a waste of money to make such a horrible movie!! And a waste of my time, and everyone who tries watching it!!

Horrible acting, even more horrible directing! Plot was decent, but poorly executed!!

It just makes me wonder who reads that script and thinks it would be a good idea to be part of that project.

Well, it's a paycheck, I guess.

So, don't wast your time and most of all, don't waste your money on this thing.

I can't get that hour and a half back, so, I can only try to warn others.

Well, at least Malta is a beautiful place... There's that...

Written down, the setup may sound a bit labored, but rest assured that the film flies though the premise-setting and always gives the elaborate fighting, shooting, and twisting sequences priority. Directed by George Kirby and Harry Kirby, the brothers establish their own distinctive style in the action sequences, different from Jesse V. Johnson's ace direction on the first film.

Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday looks quite good, especially compared with its budgetary counterparts in the action-movie sweepstakes. Audiences don't care what your movie cost, they just want to make sure that the movie is worth their investment in time and the cost of a ticket or legal download.

On that score, Scott Adkins and the entire filmmaking team bring entertainment value in abundance to the screen.

Accident Man 2 starts off well but unfortunately did not live up to my expectations following how good Accident Man is.

The fighting scenes looks clearly choreographed, fake and slow. I feel like, to make a fighting scene look authentic, you need to hastening the sequence. This would hide some of the flaws in the fight.

I wonder why Sui-ling was always pointing. There was no sync between her words and her body movements, no emotion at all.

The film also include lots of fights. I think there is a scene where they fight for 7 minutes straight. The only fight scene I enjoyed was that of Yendi and Mike. That was probably the best fight scene in the movie.

I wasn't pleased with the performances of the actors and actresses.

The only actors performance I was pleased with is that of Dante (George). He was childish as can be, added lots of emotions to his portrayal.

I really enjoyed his role. The only issue I had with his role was that there was a disgusting scene he had to play. I almost threw up, I wasn't expecting that.

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As someone who finds the Marvel and DC universes time killers as opposed to anything to admire, I do long for talented artists to redeem the severely tired/cut and paste action genre. Scott Adkins is one such talent who I keep hoping will find a little niche to demonstrate something worthy, but he is constanty let down by the material/budgetary constraints as opposed to the fight scenes.

Here the material is definitely a step in the right direction, even if the jokes often missfire. However, when it hits (and it is largely puerile banter), it brings more than a smile. The story is kinda cool in a context of never standing still to allow the brain to engage for too long.

And the fight scenes are just so much more entertaining (for me) than watching another superhero blasting another super villain to hell and back...and then hell and back again (rinse repeat). Scott Adkins (along with the other great martial artists in this movie) is surely due a sparky script, quality direction, and a feisty, tongue-in-cheek stage (catering for his acting ability) to bring his martial arts skills to a general public that I believe would soak it up. This isn't that movie, even if those boxes are lightly ticked in pencil. Very encouraging, and hopeful that his next movie raises the bar further.

If you really like Scot Adkins fighting, then you get enough time to view this. Although there is no real story than to protect someone to save his best friend. Some James Bond stuff you will see and how inventive they are in killing but story is really bad. So I give it a 4-star rating because of the fights. Also the filming is not really well: they stay very long in a certain location were you see several fights. Stupid fight with a clown: he got hit so hard over and over again and still he is able to fight back !

There are better movies than this one. So don't really spend your time on watching this unless you have drunk a lot of beers!

I hadn't seen the first film and only knew Scott Adkins from badly acted low budget action thrillers where you constantly skip ahead to the next fight scene, because everything in between is just atrocious.

This film however is just pure bonkers from beginning to end. Every character except the accident man himself is and over the top caricature. The story is about as stupid as can be and doesn't have any pretention about being anything other. There's no moral here, no statement about human nature or current affairs, no attempt at gritty realism, it's just a beavis and butthead style avalanche of insults, fart and poop jokes and pure idiocy.

Just one example (not a spoiler since it's more or less seen in the trailer): Scott Adkins has to save the idiot son of a mafia family, who for no reason whatsoever decides to swallow the tracking device the bad guys use to track him. Adkins drags the idiot who's wearing a rabbit costume and covered in the first assassin's blood into a pharmacy, force feeds him laxatives only to later have closeup shots of the idiot pooping, and of the tracker covered in diarrhea. What the actual f... ?

The fight scenes are completely ridiculous as well with the antagonists introduced in video game like manner. They are wonderfully choreographed with some great camera work. Lots of wide angle shots, no closeup shaky cam nonsense. With some shots I really wondered how they did it. CGI is used in some shots, and it looks terrible. They don't even try to hide it, which somehow makes it more acceptable. The soundtrack is appropriately noisy and goofy.

I'm not sure what to classify this movie as. Martial Arts Comedy? Martial Arts Spoof?

What I do know is I didn't feel the need to fast forward once, and that the fight scene were absolutely impressive and entertaining.

Turn your brain off and enjoy.

This works as a standalone movie, as it takes the time to put you up to speed with a quick summary that doesn't get in the way of the story.. even if there isn't much of a "story" anyway. What it has, is a fun situation between killers.

The movie writers at least had the decency and care to give a decent personality to the characters portrayed on screen, and provide a basic framework for the movie to happen organically. The dialogue doesn't match the impeccable quality of camera-work and stunts, but that's not what you are here for! Classical Assassin tropes and a Boss-Rush as the meat and potatoes. Would easily recommend to anyone that watched the trailer and thought "looks kind of bad, but fun".

ACCIDENT MAN: HITMAN'S HOLIDAY (B-) Scott Adkins directed and co-wrote this guilty pleasure actioner that is essentially one of those generic hitman action films that Jason Statham and Liam Neeson make a living on. Adkins stars as the titular accident man who excels at making his assassinations look like accidents. He's recently settled in Malta, gained a partner in the game named Fred, and unfortunately gets looped into helping protect the spoiled son of a major crime ring from his mentor (Ray Stevenson) and a cadre of big named assassins looking for the payday. The movie plays out a bit like Hitman's Bodyguard with a desire to have a kind of Guy Ritchie/Quentin Tarantino like gangster patter. The structure of the film allows for several fight sequences in unique settings against unique assassin opponents. On this element, the film really exceeds in providing several high quality fights of varying styles. My personal favorite is a multi-stage fight against a female special forces type assassin that features a strong chemistry between her and Adkins. This is a classic low budget actioner that delivers on the action and does well enough in all the other categories to make it a classic guilty pleasure.

Don't watch this movie if you can't suspend belief.

Don't watch this movie if you're waiting for brilliant acting.

Don't watch this movie if you're expecting a deep plot line.

BUT if you like well-choreographed fight scenes that are over the top that include witty jabs amongst characters, then grab some popcorn and have a seat. Because you're in for a wild ride. The fact they pulled this movie off in a little over 3 weeks of shooting is a testament to how much prep went into each fight scene ahead of filming. It's impressive to think Scott Adkins worked through each and every fight scene in advance - because there are a ton.

If I could do away with one thing in this movie it would be the annoying mafia brat they have to protect. But the movie does have a nice conclusion which scratched my itch when it came to this maggot.

I love B-movies like the original Accident Man. It was a great little surprise full of action, dirty jokes and acceptable fighting choreographies. That's why I watched this one.

First, Accident Man 2 has almost nothing to do with the quality of the first one. The CGI is terribly cheap, the jokes are mostly bad, even the action scenes are still watchable.

Second, Scott Adkins has several great movies like Boyka or Ip Man. But here seems to overact everything consequently resulting in a extremely bad acting. Not to mention the partner.

Last, I didn't expect too much when I decided to watch this movie, but overall the result is worst than the first part.

Despite my open-minded approach to the film, I found myself severely disappointed. I was hoping for a refreshing take on British comedies, but alas, it was more of the same - dry, humourless and utterly tedious. British humour, it seems, is an acquired taste that I'm yet to acquire.

The narrative's attempts to weave comedic elements into the grim world of contract killing felt forced and insipid, lacking the witty punchlines or clever comedic timing necessary for such a unique concept. Instead of laughing, I found myself yawning, longing for a break from the film's droning banter and lacklustre dialogues.

Furthermore, the characters came across as one-dimensional, their eccentricities more annoying than endearing. Instead of eliciting chuckles, their quirky antics only added to the film's overall dreariness.

"Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday" is a stark reminder that blending comedy and crime requires finesse and flair, neither of which were present in this woefully misjudged film. In summary, if you're seeking a fun-filled, laugh-out-loud comedy, I'd recommend you look elsewhere.

It appears Brits love this stuff but it's a fail for me, how can a Chuck Norris style hitman always have the most trouble when fighting a F or a clown? It loses all it's credibility on that alone plus the PC assassins.

Way too many over the top, unrealistic characters, no person on Earth acts like them:

1. China girl showing him how to fight, Adkins seems to have been paid off by China with some of the movies he's been in. Even F in China fight better than M everywhere else, pathetic.

2. Italian rich boy who should have been killed multiple times, he's so annoying I would have paid to have him killed.

3. Old lady to rich boy stating enough with the toxic masculinity, another L code word for anti-male while she acts like a male the entire movie, is that toxic femininity?

4. Clown - so ridiculous.

It started as silly movie but turned out to be quite enjoyable and entertaining.

The fighting is quite good, all the actors/stunts are good, some are even more realistic and synced than John Wick fights. Probably because the directors are stuntmen themselves, very pro, impressive.

The lead female Su-Ling is very entertaining, she speaks lots of HK Cantonese swear words with an American accent, very fun, 10/10!

Hope they will make a sequel, look forward to that.

The overall story is a bit silly and out of the world, which is fine, didnt look for a serious story arc anyway.

Very pleasantly surprised so felt like sharing it by writing a review on IMDB.

Brainless stuff but strangely entertaining. I Thought this was a better film than the first one. As the film drew to a close I was starting to get a little weary of the Kung-fu/maritial arts style fighting. There were a few gory scenes where our hero(?) dispatches his assailants and assorted bad guys. One in particular where he speared one through the head, pushing their eye out, and followed by a very realistic spray of blood. I thought by far the most interesting character in the film was 'Finicky Fred' played by Perry Benson. It would be possible to construct an entire film around his character.

The original movie was way better than this commcercial sequel.

The bad: what's most annoying about this sequel is that it desperately tries to be funny, with every other minute a silly joke, that is so painfully NOT funny that I got really annoyed by those stupid failed jokes. The original Accident Man was tough and while being tough it was occasionally really funny.

More bad: even the action sequences are childish and silly. Before the action was tough and ruthless. Now even the action has become a silly gimmick.

Better watch the original. The original was tough and exciting, with great vicious characters.

'Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday (2022)' is a bit like 'The Protector / Warrior King (2005)' in that it's simultaneously excellent (the action) and terrible (almost everything else), except this Scott Adkins' kick-'em-up doesn't quite hit the same range of quality (the action is really good, but not 'best of all time?' good; the rest is pretty bad, but not 'have they ever made a movie before?' bad) and is therefore a much more middle-of-the-road experience overall. It starts in media res with our leading man battling a killer clown who's trying to smash him to pieces with a giant sledgehammer, before the action freezes and we're hit with a classic 'how did I get here?' rewind that parks the life-and-death clowning around for about forty minutes while the piece sets up the meat-and-potatoes of its plot. Following the events of the first film (which I haven't seen), the flick sees its star spending his exile in Malta and getting unreasonably pissed off that he can't buy Malteasers anywhere on the island. Unable to resist doing what he's good at, he starts taking on assassination contracts that require him to make his targets' deaths look like outlandish accidents. Helping him with this is an old chum from London who looks and acts far too innocent to be in his line of work, as well as a feisty fighter whose only job is to fistfight our hero to keep him on his toes and help him blow off steam after each hit. The first half plays out as this sort of lighthearted comedy with occasional bursts of energetically executed action. It's goofy and amateurish and actually sort of endearing in its own way, but it's undeniably not very good. It does establish the oddball tone that's so key in the picture's overall success, however limited it may be. The piece clearly knows exactly what it is and that's a large part of why it works relatively well, as you know it doesn't have any pretensions and understands that its core audience isn't really here for anything other than the fisticuffs (and a bit of occasional, somewhat satirical silliness). Eventually, someone from our protagonist's past (portrayed by an underused yet genuinely good Ray Stevenson) throws a spanner in the works and gets him involved with some very dangerous people. Our hero is forced to protect a whiny man-child from a bevy of colourful and deadly assassins, and its in this propulsive second half where the feature really takes off. Essentially, the back half of the film is comprised of five fight scenes (two of which occur at the same time and are thus intercut), with a new assassin rocking up - complete with freeze-frame introduction and outlandish gimmick - so that Adkins can beat them up before moving onto his next foe. These sequences are fast, frenetic and generally fantastic (the aforementioned killer clown fight is, I think, the highlight). Some of the action is also surprisingly brutal, especially given the generally bouncy tone. The focus is typically on hyper-choreographed violence-as-dance, though, so the feature is always far more fun than it is grisly. It's really enjoyable when it's doing what it does best, throwing all caution to the wind as it delivers the goods in terms of stylistic action. Perhaps the frequent digital zooms distract a little from the actual on-set choreography, but the overall aesthetic is pleasing enough because it doesn't obfuscate anything and favours steady long takes over edited-to-oblivion shaky cam. Ultimately, this is one of those movies that isn't good, per se, but is entertaining. In some ways, I suppose that means it is good, doesn't it? Despite its obvious flaws, it's quite a lot of fun when at its best and inoffensively naff when at its worst. Depending on what you're after, it might just be exactly what you need. Then again, there are films that do both better action and better everything else, so make of that what you will.

Camera work is great, the lighting, sound, whatever locations they were at looked great, even back alleys and hallways, it all looked really good, I just didn't care for the acting. A lot of reviewers were saying how much they like Scott Adkins, I honestly don't know who that is, I really can't think of anything I've seen him in, I doubt that would make me like this movie more. I did think that Ray Stevenson was great, did a superb job, and looking through his career I've seen 7 other things he's done. One other critique would be that I'm not a fan of overchoreographed fight scenes, it looks too unnatural. I liked the ending.