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Scott Adkins has 47 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 2000s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including John Wick: Chapter 4.
Momentum
2015
Action · Crime

John Wick: Chapter 4
2023 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Max · Included

Doctor Strange
2016 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Disney+ · Included

Ip Man 4: The Finale
2019 · Movie · Actor
Top 6%Hulu · Included

The Rip
2026 · Movie · Actor
Top 10%Netflix · Included

Diablo
2025 · Movie · Actor · Writer
Top 11%Prime Video · Included

Accident Man: Hitman's Holiday
2022 · Movie · Actor · Writer
Top 24%Prime Video · Included

With the price on his head ever increasing, John Wick uncovers a path to defeating The High Table. But before he can earn his freedom, Wick must face off against a new enemy with powerful alliances across the globe and forces that turn old friends into foes.
Dir. Chad Stahelski · With Keanu Reeves, Donnie Yen, Bill Skarsgård

After his career is destroyed, a brilliant but arrogant surgeon gets a new lease on life when a sorcerer takes him under her wing and trains him to defend the world against evil.
Dir. Scott Derrickson · With Benedict Cumberbatch, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rachel McAdams

Russian inmate Boyka, now severely hobbled by the knee injury suffered at the end of Undisputed 2. No longer the feared prison fighter he was, he has declined so far that he is now good only for cleaning toilets. But when a new prison fight tournament begins - an international affair, matching the best fighters from prisons around the globe, enticing them with the promise of freedom for the winner - Boyka must reclaim his dignity and fight for his position in the tournament.
Dir. Isaac Florentine · With Scott Adkins, Mykel Shannon Jenkins, Mark Ivanir

Following the death of his wife, Ip Man travels to San Francisco to ease tensions between the local kung fu masters and his star student, Bruce Lee, while searching for a better future for his son.
Dir. Wilson Yip · With Donnie Yen, Wu Yue, Vanness Wu

Heavyweight Champ George "Iceman" Chambers is sent to a Russian jail on trumped-up drug charges. In order to win his freedom he must fight against the jailhouse fighting champ Uri Boyka in a battle to the death. This time he is not fighting for a title, he is fighting for his life!
Dir. Isaac Florentine · With Michael Jai White, Scott Adkins, Ben Cross

A chronicle of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 2001 attacks, and his death at the hands of the Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May, 2011.
Dir. Kathryn Bigelow · With Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke, Kyle Chandler
In the fourth installment of the fighting franchise, Boyka is shooting for the big leagues when an accidental death in the ring makes him question everything he stands for. When he finds out the wife of the man he accidentally killed is in trouble, Boyka offers to fight in a series of impossible battles to free her from a life of servitude.
Dir. Todor Chapkanov · With Scott Adkins, Teodora Duhovnikova, Alon Aboutboul

Trust frays when a team of Miami cops discovers millions in cash inside a run-down stash house, calling everyone — and everything — into question.
Dir. Joe Carnahan · With Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Teyana Taylor

Ex-con Kris Chaney seizes the daughter of a Colombian gangster to fulfill a noble promise to the young girl's mother. When her father enlists both the criminal underworld and a psychotic killer to exact his revenge, Kris relies on everything he's ever learned to stay alive and keep his word.
Dir. Ernesto Díaz Espinoza · With Scott Adkins, Marko Zaror, Alanna de la Rossa

as Wing Commander James Wright · Writer
British RAF Wing Commander James Wright is captured by the Japanese during WWII and forced to fight in brutal hand-to-hand combat. The Japanese soldiers get more than they bargained for when Wright’s years of martial arts training in Hong Kong prove him to be a formidable opponent.
Dir. Louis Mandylor · With Scott Adkins, Peter Shinkoda, Michael Copon
A drifting ex-soldier turns underground fighter with the help of a just-released ex-con, pitting him against corrupt cops and hired killers now gunning for him and all those he cares about.
Dir. Christian Sesma · With Frank Grillo, Mekhi Phifer, Jaime King

The Accident Man is back, and this time he must best the top assassins in the world to protect the ungrateful son of a mafia boss, save the life of his only friend and rekindle his relationship with his maniacal father figure.
Dir. Harry Kirby, George Kirby · With Scott Adkins, Ray Stevenson, Perry Benson

An LA vampire hunter has a week to come up with the cash to pay for his kid's tuition and braces. Trying to make a living these days just might kill him.
Dir. J.J. Perry · With Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco, Natasha Liu Bordizzo
An elite squad of Navy SEALs, on a covert mission to transport a prisoner off a CIA black site island prison, are trapped when insurgents attack while trying to rescue the same prisoner.
Dir. James Nunn · With Scott Adkins, Ashley Greene, Ryan Phillippe

Fight everyone and trust no one: it's the code of survival practiced by martial-arts master Casey Bowman after his life of domestic bliss is shattered by a savage act of violence. Vowing revenge, the fearless American stealthily tracks the killer from Osaka to Bangkok to Rangoon with the help of a wise and crafty sensei. His only clues: a series of victims whose necks bear the distinctive mark of strangulation by barbed wire. Fighting to avenge as well as to survive, Casey must sharpen his razor-like responses and take his battle skills to the next level, even using deep meditation to fake his own death. His target: the sinister drug lord Goro, who is flooding the streets with deadly meth cooked at his remote jungle factory. To prepare for his ultimate confrontation, Casey must finally become an invisible warrior worthy of the name Ninja. But just when his prey is cornered, an unexpected twist shows Casey that his battle is only beginning: he truly can trust no one.
Dir. Isaac Florentine · With Scott Adkins, Kane Kosugi, Mika Hijii
Hiding out with his son Taylor on the Mexican coast, Nero hopes to put his violent Special Forces career behind him. But after Nero’s home is attacked and Taylor is abducted, the mysterious Mzamo orders Nero to slaughter the members of three rival crime syndicates. If he fails, Taylor will die. Now, with bullets flying and bodies dropping as Nero completes his mission, he races to find Mzamo’s hideout and seek revenge.
Dir. Isaac Florentine · With Scott Adkins, Mario Van Peebles, Matthew Garbacz
Following the attack on the black site in Poland, Navy SEAL Jake Harris is ordered to escort terrorist suspect Amin Mansur to Washington D.C. for interrogation. Before the prisoner transfer process is complete, though, the airport is attacked by a group of heavily armed, well-trained mercenaries.
Dir. James Nunn · With Scott Adkins, Michael Jai White, Alexis Knapp

A crime syndicate places a hit on a billionaire's daughter, making her the target of an elite assassin squad. A small band of down-and-out mercenaries protects her, fighting tooth and nail to stop the assassins from reaching their target.
Dir. Jesse V. Johnson · With Tony Jaa, Tiger Chen Hu, Iko Uwais

A rogue soldier turned outlaw is thrust into a relentless fight with a corrupt sheriff, his obedient deputies, and a dangerous drug cartel in order to protect his sister and her young daughter.
Dir. Isaac Florentine · With Scott Adkins, Nick Chinlund, Caitlin Keats

Following the murder of his fiancée, Mitch Rapp trains under the instruction of Cold War veteran Stan Hurley. The pair then is enlisted to investigate a wave of apparently random attacks on military and civilian targets.
Dir. Michael Cuesta · With Dylan O'Brien, Michael Keaton, Taylor Kitsch

While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.
Dir. Jesse V. Johnson · With Scott Adkins, Craig Fairbrass, Thomas Turgoose

When top hitman Joe Flood is diagnosed with a terminal illness, he decides to take matters into his own hands – by taking a hit out on himself. But when the very hitmen he hired also target his ex-girlfriend, he must fend off an army of assassin colleagues and win back the love of his life before it's too late.
Dir. J.J. Perry · With Dave Bautista, Sofia Boutella, Terry Crews
A former US Federal Agent must abandon the witness protection program and come out of hiding when his London home is invaded in error due to a wrong address. When the event ends with multiple homicides, the news triggers those hunting him to send Europe's most dangerous assassin to kill him. Now on the run with his daughters life in jeopardy, a determined father must get her to safety before the people he's been hiding from tracks him down.
Dir. James Nunn · With Scott Adkins, Stuart Bennett, Daniel Caltagirone
A burned-out professional sniper finds himself trapped in an all-glass penthouse by a lethal competitor and must find a way to survive and escape with little to no cover between him and the killer.
Dir. Nick McKinless · With Scott Adkins, Jack Parr, Alice Eve

A man steps out of a park fountain in Ho Chi Minh City with no recollection of who he is or where he came from. As he wanders through the city, piecing together clues to his past, he is relentlessly pursued by mysterious figures.
Dir. Ernie Barbarash · With Scott Adkins, Andy On Chi-Kit, Lily Ji

Brazil is a contract killer, willing to take any job if the price is right. Flint left the assassin game when a ruthless drug dealer’s brutal attack left his wife in a coma. When a contract is put out on the same coldblooded drug dealer, both Brazil and Flint want him dead – one for the money, the other for revenge. With crooked Interpol agents and vicious members of the criminal underworld hot on their trail, these two assassins reluctantly join forces to quickly take out their target before they themselves are terminated.
Dir. Ernie Barbarash · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Scott Adkins, Ivan Kaye
Five years after a zombie outbreak, the men and women of R-Division hunt down and destroy the undead. When they see signs of a second outbreak, they fear humanity may not survive.
Dir. Valeri Milev, Michael Hurst · With Roger Cross, Bruce Payne, Scott Adkins

Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.
Dir. Jesse V. Johnson · With Scott Adkins, Ray Stevenson, Ashley Greene
Rival gangs seek out millions of dollars hidden inside a luxury condominium that's scheduled to be demolished, but first they have to deal with the demolition prep crewman who found the loot first.
Dir. Dolph Lundgren · With Scott Adkins, Dolph Lundgren, Kim DeLonghi
Forced into a deadly cat-and-mouse game, a disgraced mixed martial arts fighter is hunted through the jungles of Southeast Asia.
Dir. Roel Reiné · With Scott Adkins, Rhona Mitra, Robert Knepper
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