Aarcflick

One-man films are all the rage, but it's not a new trend. When Westerns were at their peak, there were several stories of a highly trained gunman who had been wronged and was seeking revenge, with actors like Clint Eastwood and John Wayne at the helm. In the 1980s and 1990s, action stars like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Jean-Claude Van Damme starred in films about a guy seeking revenge for personal, professional, or nationalistic reasons. And while mainstream cinema shied away from such narratives for a while until Keanu Reeves became John Wick, that trend was kept alive by direct-to-video releases from immensely talented artists like Scott Adkins, Marko Zaror, and Michael Jai White. Recently, familiar faces like Orlando Bloom, Tom Hardy, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Jennifer Lopez have entered this space and achieved varying degrees of success. Josh Duhamel has been trying to do the same thing for five or six years, and ...