Diablo (2025)
Diablo (2025)
Starring: Scott Adkins, Marko Zaror, Alana De La Rossa, Diana Hoyos
Directed by: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
He was forged in prison. Freed by promise. And awakened by vengeance.In this relentless, blood-soaked action thriller, Scott Adkins stars as Kris Chaney, a former hitman newly released from prison and tasked with an impossible favor — protect the daughter of a slain drug lord. But what begins as a redemption mission soon spirals into a brutal descent through Colombia’s criminal underworld, where betrayal runs deeper than blood.
Hunted by El Corvo (Marko Zaror), a ruthless assassin with ties to Kris’s past, Kris must navigate cartel politics, mercenary warlords, and his own fading humanity — all while keeping a young woman alive in a world that wants her dead.
The film reunites Adkins and Zaror for a long-awaited showdown, and their screen presence crackles with tension. Every punch, kick, and stare bleeds history — and inevitability. Diana Hoyos and Alana De La Rossa provide emotional weight as the story’s unlikely moral core.
Shot in the humid haze of Medellín, the film is a fever dream of tight alley chases, neon-lit gunfights, and hand-to-hand brawls that leave nothing behind. The violence is bone-crunching, but the silence between fights carries just as much weight.
Directed by Ernesto Díaz Espinoza with ruthless precision and gritty flair, Diablo strips the action genre down to its brutal essence. There are no superheroes here — just pain, purpose, and survival.
Rating: 7.5/10 – A lean, merciless action drama with standout performances and some of the best fight choreography in recent years. Diablo doesn’t reinvent the genre — it sharpens it like a blade.
“I made peace with death a long time ago. What’s left now is war.”
