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Director: J.J. Perry
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco, Snoop Dogg, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Meagan Good, Karla Souza, Steve Howey, Scott Adkins, Oliver Masucci, Peter Stormare
Running Time: 114 min.
By Paul Bramhall
One of the biproducts of the John Wick franchise being so successful is that producers are now more willing to back experienced players from the stunt community who want to have a crack at directing. When stuntmen turned directors David Leitch and Chad Stahelski unleashed the original John Wick in 2014, it proved that not every action movie needed to be a superhero flick, and that there was indeed an audience for authentic action that kept things gritty and grounded. Both have gone on to have successful careers in the director’s chair, which in Stahelski’s case has included helming 3 sequels, and one of his most recent credits is producing the directorial debut of another long-time stuntman – J.J. Perry.
Anyone who’s familiar with American action cinema, particularly DTV action cinema, will have heard of J.J. Perry. Making his debut performing stunts in 1987’s They Still Call Me Bruce, Perry got his first fight choreographer credit on 2004’s long forgotten Sunland Heat, in which he replaced a certain Loren Avedon after he walked away in pre-production. Just 2 years later he’d secure his sophomore fight choreographer gig for Isaac Florentine’s Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing. Forever known as the movie which introduced Boyka to the world, a character played by British martial arts wunderkind Scott Adkins, it would lead to the pair collaborating a number of times together. Perry has Continue reading
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