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A former Federal Agent abandons the witness protection program and comes out of hiding when his London home is invaded by intruders who have the wrong address.

When the agent kills the intruders in self defence, the news make those hunting him to send an assassin to kill him.

Now on the run with his daughter's life in danger, the determined father must get her to safety before the people he's been hiding from finally tracking him down....

Scott Adkins is quickly becoming the biggest action star of straight to Blu Ray action films. Yes Van Damme is still churning out decent movies, but Adkins is fairly new to top billing films, and he is now the equivalent to Van Damme and Seagal when they were in their prime.

And just like martial arts movies from the eighties and early nineties, it doesn't try to do anything more than be another man on the edge with a family member in danger, in a race against time, whilst having some well choreographed fights every now and again.

And it's a pretty solid action film, albeit with the most silliest of narrative arcs I have seen in a long time to get the story going proper.

The scene where the intruders find out they are in the wrong house is frankly, one of the funniest things I've seen this year, and it nearly destroys the seriousness of the rest of the film. Cosmo pops up as the end of level bad guy, and although some of the acting is very questionable, you don't come to these films for the performances.

You come to watch the slow motion kicks, and the endless amount of expendable bad guys.

It's like going back to a 1989 video shop, and reserving Kickboxer on VHS, because the one copy is solidly booked out for three weeks.

Oh the good old days.....

In the bonus track of the DVD for "Eliminators," the focus is on the fight choreography for the film. That segment says it all for the cinematic values invested in the film.

The basic plot is a protracted race against time for the character named Thomas, an American agent whose cover has been blown in England. The main strand of the film is Thomas' desperate attempt to reunite with his daughter before she is harmed, or (much worse) kidnapped by her grandfather. This ludicrous narrative is never believable, and neither are the characters.

The film starts with an enormous plot hole when Thomas is arrested and locked to a hospital bed after he was the victim of a random act of violence in his own home. The arrest made no sense because Thomas was only protecting himself and his daughter against armed intruders.

Another shortcoming of the film was to leave undeveloped the past of Thomas in which his wife died during one of his undercover operations. The circumstances of her death were never made clear, and this pattern of providing insufficient exposition continued throughout the film.

The characters were all nondescript. While Thomas was a likable protagonist, it was difficult to truly care about his situation because his and the other characters were were presented as melodramatic stereotypes.

And the principal focus was always on the wrestling and fight choreography.

a) he had surgery on his abdomen an hour or so earlier and he is fighting a taller and larger man like he is fully fit b) he didn't kill the hit man when he had the chance - as Eli Walach said " when you are going to shoot - shoot - don't talk" c) he didn't shoot the woman when he had the advantage on her d) rubbish at tying the bad guy to the railing but liked the way the bad guy died in the end

to fully enjoy this movie you has to be a Scott Adkins fan and that just the first warning this is a dumb over the top action thriller with a plot that has been made million times before.In this movie Scott played a retired US Federal Agent just want to live a quiet life with his beloved daughter until a accident happen that draw his old past to haunt him again.This movie have good fight scenes(as usual for Scott the action king of DTV ) and actually solid performance from Scott,the agent guy and the main villain .The only bad thing about this movie is probably the hit man played by Stu Bennett he is one of the worst hit man i ever seen in movie .Beside that this is a good b-grade action movie to watch when you have a boring day and want to see Scott Adkins kick some ass :) (this is my first movie review so i will keep it short and sorry for the bad English)i gave this 7 out of 10 for good dumb entertainment

Scott Adkins is truly athletic. He's a great martial artist, looks the part and pretty much plays the part. Otherwise, the plot line has been patched together from so many other better movies. The ex good guy commando type, the threatened daughter, a nasty hit-man on his tail, the cops after him, and the good guy is undermined at every turn, and yet he comes through. This movie drags out some of the favorite B bit UK players. As I watch this, I wonder if I can make it through. Why is it that in martial arts scenes the b-level bad guys always wait to be hit. The safe house is compromised, the good guys are compromised, the trusting are taken advantage of. Everything you'd expect.

Quite enjoyed this story of a man trying to protect his daughter after his cover as an undercover agent in the past has been blown by accident. Perhaps Scott Adkins is not a great actor but he is good enough to carry roles like the one of Thomas in this movie and he can certainly do the martial arts necessary very convincingly, His two fights with Stu Bennett as the hitman Bishop are the best parts of the film. James Cosmo wasn't in it much but as always was a reliable presence and Lily Ann Stubbs as young Carly was also good. Also good was the use of the London locations which showed why it it one of the greatest cities in the world. The film speeds along mostly and despite an unoriginal plot entertained me accompanied by a bowl of popcorn and bottle of 'Irn-Bru'.

Warning, maybe spoilers ahead.

The start of the movie was laughable and a complete contrived mess. The conduct of the investigating officer and news reporting is unacceptable and totally unrealistic. We have two federal agents in a safe house, one armed with an automatic 9MM and the other with a shotgun. The hit- man is clearly framed in the centre of the hole in the wall he blew out. Both Federal agents (one in witness protection) fire repeatedly and yet miss? The hit-man fires back with a 55.6 AR15, the main guy is hiding behind a tin tray table and the rounds do not go through? Guys, if you are going to have action scenes please please get a technical adviser in to give you some reality! A complete duff of a film.

A man known only as Thomas (Adkins) is living somewhere in the suburbs of London with his young daughter Carly (Stubbs). Thomas works as a security guard and has a solid middle-class life. All that is interrupted, however, when a gang of none-too-bright toughs break into his house, assuming he has some hidden drugs stashed away somewhere. It turns out that the no-goodniks got the wrong address - in more ways than one. Thomas's combat skills come out and the baddies are done for.

The story makes the national media, Thomas is arrested, and Carly goes into state care. It's revealed that Thomas is a former US Fed who was put in the witness protection program. Now that the baddies know who he is, they send "Europe's most ruthless assassin" after Thomas, a sinister man named Bishop (is it Stu Bennett or Wade Barrett? No one really knows for sure). Now, with the police, the gangster baddies, and seemingly all of London against him, can Thomas use the skills he developed in his former life to get his current life back? He has to find Carly before it's too late, but will he?

Not to be confused with the Eliminators from 1986, this Eliminators sees fan favorite Scott Adkins reunite with director James Nunn after Green Street 3 (2013). Based on this track record of their work history together, it shows that Nunn knows what Adkins fans will like and expect, and he delivers that. Eliminators is well-acted, well-shot (if a bit dark at times), and the action scenes are high-quality stuff. Movie highlights include the two brawls between Adkins and Bennett/Barrett, and the fights and chases in London at night. Good usage is made of some UK locations.

As is typical for action films, the hero has both a daughter he has to save and a hidden past. Adkins makes both of those storylines work well. Plus, it's an improvement over Legacy of Lies (2020) and Abduction (2019), which aren't really at the top of the Adkins must-see list. While Adkins looks somewhat like Ben Affleck this time around, the three main characters - Adkins, Barrett, and the cop on their trail - all look very similar. They have similarly-shaped heads and similar hair. If Adkins had more beard stubble, they could almost be triplets.

The drama in between the action scenes provides the emotion for the film, and productions from the UK seem to excel at this sort of thing. Of course, this is contrasted by the wrestling moves of Barrett, which are quite evident in his fighting style. Director Nunn went on to direct more wrestlers in other WWE Studios productions such as The Marine 5: Battleground (2017) and The Marine 6: Close Quarters (2018). How many installments are there in The Marine series? No one may ever know...

In the end, while Eliminators becomes a bit more standard around the hour mark, we would still recommend it, especially to Adkins fans. While certainly not perfect, it delivers the goods in a lot of ways and provides some good, solid DTV entertainment for 95 minutes.

I suffered throughout this disaster of a movie right up until the point where, with absolutely no danger presented to his daughter and clearly open shots on both the man and the woman standing IN FRONT of the child (no, there was no gun to the child's head; no knife to her throat; no cliff behind her leaving her precariously balanced and in danger of falling; no poison in her system and only the two villains have the antidote - the kid is on a couch, in the living room, with the two villains presenting no danger - and dad has the drop on the both) - he lowers his gun for some utterly inexplicable reason. I turned it off at that point and really have zero interest in what happens next...

Make no mistake, from the awful opening 1980's "look at my muscles" shots on a Scott Adkins who looks like he's about to make gay porn instead of get dressed for work (in a pseudo Nazi-esque uniform) through to the point above (where I turned it off) this is an utterly dismal movie.

Someone reviewed this travesty and said :"it's Scott Adkins so you can expect lousy acting" - to be honest, I am still waiting for acting that makes it even close to the "lousy" bar.

Add in an inexplicably crap hit-man (trained at MI6 - but about as useful as penis flavored lollypop in a lesbian bar) and the exact same martial arts move over and over again (Oh look - a roundhouse kick..... *yawn*) the only thing left to save this "movie" would have been an intense, lingerie heavy, erotic, girl on girl scene between the female baddie extra and the female goodie social worker extra - but sadly, the closest this trash gets to anything even remotely that exciting is an implication that the female baddie extra shoots the female goodie social worker extra when she's unconscious (you can't see if she actually does because the bad guy is Santa Clausing himself up the stairs and he's about the width of Manhattan ( in a "Santa Claus needs to eat WAY fewer cookies" way not in a "wow - the Rock has really been working out!!" way.))

Avoid. I guarantee you the reviews for the movie are far more entertaining than the movie itself. Worst thing is - the plot has been tried and tested thousands of times - it is SUPER hard to get it wrong. The morons who made this crap succeeded ONLY in achieving that dubious accolade.