Film Review – Diablo

With a few possible exceptions, Scott Adkins has managed to become the best thing about the movies he appears in. Perhaps that’s damning with faint praise, as these productions aren’t always created with the finest filmmaking minds around, and budgets are typically very small, but Adkins keeps moving forward in B-movies, usually prepared to put on a show for action fans. “Diablo” is his latest endeavor, and Adkins nabs a co-story credit for this rescue picture, which pits a desperate American ex-con against waves of Columbian enforcers out to prevent his reunion with a daughter he’s never met. Screenwriter Mat Sansom and director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza (“The ABCs of Death,” “The Fist of the Condor”) understand the mission, trying to deliver hard hits and near-misses in the offering, which carries an interesting viciousness. “Diablo” isn’t slick or swiftly paced, but it does retain intensity at times, and there’s always Adkins, who delivers a pleasing turn as a desperate man who’s always ready to fight. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com