The author and director, former stuntman Jesse V. Johnson (“Avengement”), throws audiences into the center of motion. There is a financial institution theft out in a patch of Texas territory monitored by Texas Ranger Alex Tyree (Jane) that was spearheaded by a former IRA member named Declan McBride (Dean Jagger). Alex is within the strategy of arresting a neighborhood thief (Gregory Zaragoza) when McBride’s gang comes driving by the realm, tailed by a few deputies. The matter is settled by Ranger Alex commandeering the vintage rifle that the thief simply stole and making a collection of miraculous long-distance photographs. The only survivor, the Irishman, flees to Mexico.
However no sooner has our hero had an opportunity to take pleasure in a bit of down time together with his woman than the British authorities comes calling, asking Alex to journey to Mexico and extradite Declan McBride. The Mexican police will not ordinarily permit such an extradition, however they’re prepared to bend the foundations on this case on the situation that Alex take the prisoner, as a result of they respect Alex, you see? He is particular, not just like the others. (Earlier than pitching the mission to Alex, the Brits butter him up by praising “the elite investigative abilities of the Texas Rangers”).
As you may think, the prisoner switch doesn’t go as deliberate, and Alex has to recapture McBride as a result of he is the one particular person courageous sufficient, cool sufficient, and ok to do it. “Good hat, very refined,” says a British “Management” officer (John Malkovich) who’s Alex’s sorta-supervisor in England. “I will purchase you one,” Alex replies.
“One Ranger” deserves a specific amount of credit score for understanding precisely what it desires to be: an American Purple State reply to James Bond, a couple of hero who’s so extremely superior that his status all the time precedes him, and who kinda represents the spirit of his nation, regardless that he makes a degree of letting everybody know that he is only one a man doing a job (ergo, the movie’s title). I can not consider a single scene that does not happen in a location the place motion all the time happens in these types of movies (a desert street, a warehouse). No one’s brazenly racist or xenophobic, but the varied energy preparations governing all of the motion go unquestioned and principally unremarked upon (aside from stray feedback about energy and cash figuring out outcomes in life). Nearly each character is a few sort of racial, ethnic, or nationwide stereotype, flattened out to online game NPC ranges. A Ukrainian who helps Alex has a tall Nutcracker-style fur hat and tells him, “It’s unwise to refuse generosity of Cossack.”