Director: Jesse V. Johnson
Notable Cast: Scott Adkins, Louis Mandylor, Ski Carr, Vladimir
Kulich, Charity Collins, Mayling Ng
As both a huge fan of director Jesse V. Johnson and action icon
Scott Adkins, I’m always down to partake when either of them release a new
film. Put them together and I’m throwing my wallet into their hands. However,
when it was announced the two would be re-teaming up for a sequel to The
Debt Collector, called Debt Collectors, I was a bit perplexed. You
see, if you’ve seen the first film, you know that it definitively ends the story
of our two makeshift anti-heroes, French and Sue. There wasn’t a lot of room for
a sequel. Yet, here we are with the bickering banter of our two favorite
collection agents in this – and I only assume – first sequel to the surprise
action hit. While Debt Collectors isn’t quite the pleasantly humorous
surprise of the first, it’s still a rock ‘em, sock ‘em slab of entertainment
that delivers on all of the expected elements of the first film. It’s
impeccably charming, loaded with the usual action awesomeness from the
directing and star duo, and gives the fans what they want from a sequel.
Seven months after the events of The Debt Collector,
Sue – once again played with the charming trashiness of Louis Mandylor, finds
French bouncing at the local bar. A bar that was, more or less, used as a comedic
set piece in the first film. French, played by my pick for Batman Scott Adkins
(how many letters do I have to write to Warner Bros. to get that to happen?,)
is having a rough go of it and Sue gives him the opportunity to get back into
the debt collecting game for one last round. Three collections. Two days. $70,000.