Diablo
Director:
Ernesto Diaz Espinozah
Year: 2025
Rating: 7.0
It used
to be said that all you need for a movie is a girl and a gun. These days
all you need is a girl and a guy trying to protect her. There have been an
avalanche of such films in the past decade. Here is another one, but with
a little twist to it. Filled with the sort of hard hitting action one expects
in a film featuring Scott Adkins and Marko Zaror, two legit martial artists.
Have to admit that I am not very familiar with Marko though in looking at
his filmography, I have come across him in Alita, John Wick 4 and The Killers
Game but I can't place him in any of those. I think some of his best work
in which he stars is in his homeland of Chile.
Their fight at the end is the highlight
of the film and though there are a number of satisfying smackdowns, there
is nothing in them that is really memorable except perhaps the slaughter
committed by Marko in a cantina full of prostitutes, pimps, customers and
criminals. All are marked for the slaughter. Adkins just tends to easily
beat the hell out of everyone till he meets his match in Marko. The plot
is paper thin but does the job.
Adkins kidnaps the feisty teenage daughter
(Alana De La Rossa) of a major cartel boss Vincente (Lucho Velasquez) in
Colombia. Eventually, we find out why. Which of course makes him the good
guy. Vincente is actually a very loving father, but a nasty piece of work
otherwise. He does an Al Capone with a baseball bat on two of his men when
they screw up. He orders the entire country with a reward to look for his
daughter, but the main challenge for Adkins is El Corvo (Marko), a total
psycho with an iron fist for a hand and a long sharp blade underneath that.
And is close to indestructible. Great fun at parties, no doubt. He wants
the girl for revenge. Very solid action film with a good performance by Alana,
solid by Adkins and nuts by Marko.
