Name: One Last Shot
Director: James Nunn
Genre: Action, Thriller
Released: 2026-09-22T00:00:00+00:00
Duration: 98 min
Cast: Scott Adkins, Steven Cree, Hannah Ware, Dolph Lundgren, Kane Kosugi

The key art for One Last Shot places Scott Adkins and Dolph Lundgren in front of the Capitol dome: a flag, a suppressed rifle, an orange burst of fire at the edge of the frame. According to the critics who have reviewed it, the film itself happens somewhere less monumental. A dirty bomb at the State of the Union sends the Joint Chiefs to a single secured compound, a rogue former SEAL takes it, and he wants to use their biological data to reach the country’s missile defense network. The poster sells a landmark. The film, by those accounts, is a building, a perimeter and a team trying to get inside.

That gap matters because the whole series rests on one formal decision. James Nunn’s films starring Adkins as Navy SEAL Jake Harris are edited to appear as one continuous take, with the cuts hidden rather than removed. Screen time and story time run together, so the three films cover only a couple of days in Harris’s life, and this one, billed as the conclusion, picks up hours after One More Shot ended. In a franchise like this the camera is not a style laid over the plot. It is the plot’s measuring tape.

The casting reads as a closing of accounts. Adkins plays Harris as a man running out of reserve: The Last Thing I See describes him as tired, wanting only to get home to his family, before Admiral Mulholland pulls him onto the assault team with a second, private order to kill the man leading the takeover. That man is Elliot Carter, played by Steven Cree, an old friend who once took a bullet for Harris. Mulholland had been referenced in the previous film and never shown. Giving him Lundgren’s face is a small piece of franchise design: the voice on the other end of the line becomes a body, and the series’ chain of command finally has someone at the top of it.

Nunn has directed all three entries, with Jamie Russell writing the series and Tim Man, credited by The Last Thing I See, on fight choreography. The model has stayed constant: modest budgets, contained locations and a single hero moving through them. The previous chapter was filmed largely at night at London Stansted Airport after the passengers had gone. The ambition lives in the planning, not the spend, and Cinapse frames the result in exactly those terms, writing that “especially considering the movie’s modest budget, the filmmaking is dazzling.”

What reviewers describe is a change of tempo inside the same grammar. The Last Thing I See reports that the first half unspools “in a more deliberate and measured fashion, the camera sticking with the crew as they attempt to breach the compound,” before the action takes over. Cinapse lists the spaces the camera passes through: rooms, hallways, a four-wheeler, a boat. Both mention fights between Adkins and Kane Kosugi, who plays Lee, and The Last Thing I See singles out an ATV chase sustained as a single shot. The official trailer, released by Sony’s home entertainment label, bills Adkins and Lundgren together in its title.

The form also sets the limits of what the film can claim. A take designed to feel unbroken still depends on hidden cuts, so the continuity is an illusion built in the edit, and the reviews treat it as craft rather than proof of anything. The same critics are cooler on the rest. Cinapse finds Adkins taking a back seat for much of the first half, gives Lundgren only a few minutes of screen time, and argues the villain needed a second action star of Adkins’ calibre, as One More Shot had with Michael Jai White; it also points to familiar plot elements and heavy-handed political messaging. The Last Thing I See notes that the film raises loyalty, war profiteering and a state that abandons its soldiers without taking a position on any of them, and that these are the moments where the pace flags. A Capitol on the poster is a promise of scale. A sealed compound is the actual size of the story.

A still from the action thriller One Last Shot directed by James Nunn in 2026 — A still from *One Last Shot* (2026), directed by James Nunn

The cast also includes Hannah Ware as Elena Torres, Neil Linpow, Ray Fearon and Tom Dunne. TMDB lists Sky Cinema and Signature Films among the production companies, and Sony Pictures Entertainment handles the film’s home release. One Last Shot is rated R and runs about 98 minutes. In the United States it arrived on Digital HD and DVD on September 22, 2026, through outlets including Amazon Video and iTunes, with no US theatrical run listed, staying in the direct-to-video lane where Cinapse places the series among the most ambitious action franchises.

If this really is the last round, the series ends where it began: one man, one building, and a camera that refuses to look away long enough to let him rest.