Daniel Day Lewis has come out of retirement. I will be there opening day.

I remember this as a kid and I love the 80s so I'm really excited 😊

Summary
Cameron “Cam” Cade, a rising-star college quarterback, suffers a brain injury after an attack. When all seems lost, he’s offered a chance to train under Isaiah White—a legendary, near-retired quarterback—at Isaiah’s secluded compound. But the mentorship takes a sinister turn, and Cam begins to question what his hero is asking him to sacrifice for greatness.

Director
Justin Tipping

Writers
Zack Akers, Skip Bronkie, Justin Tipping

Cast

• Marlon Wayans
• Tyriq Withers
• Julia Fox
• Tim Heidecker
• Jim Jefferies
• Naomi Grossman
• Tierra Whack
• Guapdad 4000

Rotten Tomatoes
Critics Score: 32%

Metacritic
Score: 38

VOD
Theaters

There's a certain joy to seeing Jeff Goldblum at the start of his career, Donna Summer at her peak, and The Commodores in funky disco threads. For these reasons, Thank God It's Friday is a cult classic. The reasons it stayed cult rather than gaining greater popularity? Well, it isn't a good movie. It is duller than it should be, filled with ethnic and gay stereotypes, stiff acting, and not much of a script. There isn't enough music and what is good gets cut off. Last Dance deserved a better vehicle. Of the songs by The Commodores in the film, they should have showcased Brick House instead of Too Hot Ta Trot. Still, it can be fun to look back at an exploitative period piece trying to cash in on the success of Saturday Night Fever.

Thunder Run (1991) on LaserDisc—snagged it at a thrift shop. Cost: C$2.50. Absolute steal.

This is Hong Kong exploitation at its grimiest: two cops wind up in a Laos prison, where torture and misery are the daily rations. Naturally, the only way out is fists, blood, and an escape plan that looks impossible until it isn’t.

Directed by Hsu Hsia—who made a career out of wild stuntwork—fronted by Ray Lui and Alex Fong, with Jason Pai Piao and Fung Hak-on chewing scenery on the side.

The copy I found is the Ocean Shores pressing OL-164. Cantonese or Mandarin audio, English subs, and the kind of gaudy cover design that screams early-90s Hong Kong home video.

Is it a polished masterpiece? Not a chance. But cult fans rate it middling-good. Which, in this genre, basically means “come for the beatdowns, stay for the prison sleaze.”

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Accident Man: Hitman’s Holiday is damn good, but it’s not the same beast as the original Accident Man.

This time around, Mike Fallon has to fend off the world’s top assassins in order to protect the spoiled, whiny son of a Maltese mob boss, save the life of his only friend, and awkwardly patch things up with his maniacal father figure.

Now—let’s deal with the elephant in the room. What made the first film click wasn’t just the eccentric hitmen. It was the Britishness. London itself was practically a character. You had blokes, chavs, pubs, and the whole East End criminal tapestry. It was fun seeing the John Wick formula reimagined through a UK lens.

But here? London gets swapped for Malta. Why Malta? Two reasons: one, Malta has film tax incentives out the wazoo. Two, the Maltese government loves turning movies into tourist adverts. Which is why you get Valletta’s sun-baked alleys instead of rainy Soho backstreets.

And that single change totally shifts the movie’s DNA. Instead of the British underworld, we’re now in a Mediterranean arena where assassins of every nationality crash the party.

These aren’t just killers, they’re live-action anime characters. You’ve got Poco the Killer Clown wielding a giant hammer, a vampiric muscleman who literally drinks blood, a chain-choking bruiser, and Oyumi, a katana-slinging ninja played by real-life fight choreographer Andy Long Nguyen. This is a rogues’ gallery that makes the first film’s lineup look subdued.

Now, if it sounds like I’m slamming this sequel—I’m not. It’s just a different flavor of insanity. And in some ways, Hitman’s Holiday actually tops the original.

First, the fights. They’re tighter, cleaner, and choreographed like vintage Hong Kong. No surprise—Adkins pulled in the Kirby brothers, stunt pros who pre-vised every brawl, and roped in Corridor Crew to handle the gory VFX. (That eyeball-through-the-head shot? Courtesy of YouTube’s finest.) The result is wall-to-wall martial arts carnage that feels way more ambitious than its 22-day shooting schedule should have allowed.

Second, the villains are funnier. The mafia matriarch Zuuzer is all business, but her son Dante—played by George Fouracres—is a whiny, pathetic man-child who somehow survived into adulthood without being smothered in his sleep. Every scene he’s in is a delight.

And the comedy? On point. My favorite gag: Fallon hires a waitress, Wong Siu-ling (Sarah Chang), to ambush him at random moments so he never loses his edge. One minute he’s sipping coffee, the next he’s getting his face smashed into a counter—until he shouts the safe word. Watching Adkins get regularly brutalized by his own sparring partner is endlessly funny.

Sure, the story’s thinner. But let’s be real—we’re here for the fights. And on that front, Hitman’s Holiday delivers in spades.

Not as sharp as the first movie, but still one of the most entertaining DTV action flicks in years. A worthy sequel, just… a very different one.

Where to watch:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgE20NdIHXo

Tubi: https://tubitv.com/movies/100043358/accident-man-hitman-s-holiday

Prime Video: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0GYKTDAR10532Q854FHFLJAO0A/

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