This may surprise you, but they already filmed One Mile: Chapter 2. Despite no box office, this Ryan Phillippe franchise secured enough funding to film two films back to back from September 2024 to November 2024. After post-production, and what I can only assume was a desperate attempt to obtain some kind of domestic theatrical release, One Mile landed on PVOD platforms in February 2026.

As of this, I’ve only seen the first chapter. I’m holding with bated breath waiting for the right moment to jump into the thrilling second chapter.So, what is this? A prequel to 8 Mile? Directed by Oscar Winning director Adam Davidson. Yes, that is a true statement. Even though Davidson’s film career is negligible, he has spent his career directing episodes of TV shows like Lost, Community, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, and Labrea. He won an Oscar in 1991 for Live Action Short for his film The Lunch Date. Sure, he’s no Andrea Arnold or Martin McDonagh, two more recognizable Hollywood directors whose short films secured them Oscars, but he did win. the director of this film is an Oscar winner.

Ryan Phillippe Danny, a recently retired special forces officer who is just enjoying driving his moody teenage daughter around to her college tours as she plans for the future. He and his wife are estranged, so this becomes a daddy/daughter road trip, even if his daughter, Alex (Amelie Hoefele) isn’t that excited to be here. She does get a bit more excited when she floats by her dad what her real dreams are, of being an artist, and her cold dream killing mother just doesn’t understand her, so when dad decides they can tour an art school, suddenly she’s far less sullen.

None of that matters, because shit is about to get real. we’re also seeing flashes of an Incel community off in the woods, and their women are having problems giving birth to alive babies. Lucky for them, they own a gas station, and even luckier, they see Alex roll in with her father. they direct them to a campground, since hotels don’t exist, and survivalist Danny is more than ready to pitch a tent. But, it was a trap all along, and suddenly Danny and Alex find themselves overwhelmed by Incel’s. However, Danny watched Taken, and realized how essential it is to have a particular set of skills, so he’s at maximum badass level, and dispatches a few with ease, before he’s taken down, and Alex is dragged away to be bred.

The rest of the film is basically hell hath no fury like Ryan Phillippe as he brutally rages his way into the foray, his can’t stop won’t stop attitude proves to be the driving force. let’s face it, his opponents are total creepers. Sometimes, you can introduce a villain who is complex, and is just driven through some kind of ill-conceived idea of justice, or a tilted perspective on life, but C. Thomas Howell and his band of merry dipshits are the kind of guys who can finally get blown up and everyone in the audience cheers. Even the one Incel guy, because even he realizes the plot is essentially a creepy old man trying to breed an underage girl. this is why they always say the child predators get it the worst in prison, because even the guy who ate someone’s face is appalled.

Phillippe, who rarely ever gets to anchor anything anymore, proves himself adept here as an action star who isn’t typically assigned this genre. Some have clocked the movie as being slow, but it really is just expertly paced. If anything it is predictable. There’s what amounts to an opening sequence, like in a horror film, but this isn’t a horror film, followed by some character building time between father and daughter, before they end up shit’s creek ne’er a paddle in sight. Then, there’s the initial fight, where Philippe has to be defeated at some point, so his daughter can go explore the absurdity of this community, and gives Phillippe time to attack like John Wick.

The audio description was fine. There was an interesting little way they chose to describe Phillippe’s first kill, like it was a kill with stunning professional precision and accuracy. In one brief mention, they are solidifying that he does not mess around when it comes to the safety of his daughter, and he will absolutely drop all of these men.

is it a revelation? No. Most of the things that get thrown into Paramount’s straight-to-video label, which doesn’t have an excellent track record, yet somehow was slightly responsible for twinless. Go figure.

The audacity is believing the world needed a Chapter 2, before ever finding out if Chapter 1 had an audience. while it lacks the stark originality of action tentpoles like John Wick, it is an effective, quick search and rescue film with just enough fight to keep you interested.

Fresh: 6.4/10