‘Action Action’ Heats Up Sin City On The Big Screen

High motion Las Vegasheist movie, “Action! Action!,” fully filmed in Sin City with all native forged and crew, celebrates the town’s distinctive power whereas delivering a fascinating storyline with Downtown Las Vegas because the backdrop. 

Vegas native Adam Kilbourn not solely produced and directed the full-length movie but in addition starred in it. The film follows a bunch of thieves employed to steal an Al Capone portray from The Mob Museum, however through the journey, there’s betrayal, lies, a fast-paced automobile chase, and explosions. 

Kilbourn sat down with The Blast to speak solely in regards to the means of filming the film in Downtown Las Vegas, how the Vegas-style premiere went at Circa final week, the place individuals can view the movie, and extra. 

‘Action! Action!’ options an all-Las Vegas forged and crew, with many UNLV alumni. Directed, produced, and headlined by Vegas native Adam Kilbourn, with co-director Danny Shepherd, the high-energy heist movie brings Sin City to the massive display screen in an explosive method. Iconic spots equivalent to The Mob Museum, Fremont Street Experience, World Market Center, and different Downtown Las Vegas spots, had been featured within the motion movie. 

It all began again in 2010 with a brief motion movie that was shared in 2012. 

“So ‘Action! Action!’ starts back in 2010. I’m sitting on my back patio with my very dear friend, Will Adamson, we went to college together in the theater department at UNLV, and at this moment in time, I’m selling insurance and investments for a living. Since I was 16, I wanted to make movies,” Kilbourn advised The Blast solely.

“I started moonlighting at UNLV with some of the film department. I was talking to Will and I said I would love to do a kung fu fight and I’d love to do a gun battle, car chase, and blow up a car. I don’t even have a script.”

Will advised him to “just do that,” that means, “just do scenes like that – a gun battle, a car chase, a kung fu fight, blow up a car.”

The quick movie was launched in 2012, and it turned a “running joke” that the movie was launched with no script.  But Kilbourn mentioned there truly was script however, “no one looked at it.”

“There was definitely a script. We went up on Blue Diamond Hill in the caves and we filmed kung fu fights and a gun battle and did a car chase underground. We didn’t blow up a car, but we launched one off a 100-foot cliff which was way scarier,” he defined. “We had a blast. That was our first kind of introduction into this world and things take time to germinate.”

The quick movie then was the concept of a full-length characteristic movie with a script. Once the script was accomplished, which took years, Kilbourn needed to decide on whether or not they carry on going or cease there.

“When you get to that point, you gotta make a decision on do you keep going or you put it on the side and say it’s a nice idea,” he defined. “Because from script to where I’m at today is the journey of a lifetime. I’m amazing at the last five years how far we’ve come. It is like eating an elephant – it just never ends. It’s so much more work than you can ever imagine.”

“Action! Action!” options an all-Vegas forged and crew led by Kilbourn, Shepherd, and cinematographer Jeremy Lee. Production took 35 days, with the majority of that accomplished within the first three months, after which it took a couple of yr to complete the remainder of the scenes earlier than going into post-production.

The first scene was filmed on November 8, 2021, and the primary personal displaying was on November 9, 2024.

The movie consists of Shana Dahan from “Storage Wars” and “Thrifters Anonymous,” Mari Takahashi of “Survivor” and “Smosh,” David Valenzuela of “Margaret the Brave,” Lundon Boyd of “Dealers and Liars” and “Fires and Bears,” Marcus Weiss of Cirque du Soleil and Blue Man Group, London Mace of “The Second City” and lots of others.

Local pyrotechnician, whose credit embody Marvel, Jerry Bruckheimer, and Michael Bay productions, dealt with the movie’s explosive results, and Comrie-Picard, recognized for “Atomic Blonde” and “Deadpool 2” directed the thrilling automobile chases.

According to a press launch on the movie, “Fight directors Aaron and Ezechiel Ortega, along with the Arhat Orphan Brotherhood Stunt Team, unleashed dynamic kung fu sequences that give the fast-paced heist a razor-sharp physical edge. The brothers also take the spotlight, delivering on-screen performances as forceful and precise as their choreography.”

The movie marks the ultimate display screen efficiency of the late Clarence Gilyard, an actor and longtime UNLV movie professor recognized for his roles in “Die Hard,” “Walker, Texas Ranger,” and “Top Gun.”

On Friday, April 25, 2025, the movie premiered at Stadium Swim at Circa in entrance of a giant, excited viewers.

“Doing the premiere at Circa was a dream come true,” Kilbourn mentioned. “We were on Fremont Street Experience for three days. I never thought that my ugly mug would be up on the canopy. It’s mind blowing. We were on the side of Circa’s building.”

The movie made its explosive debut on Stadium Swim’s large 143-foot display screen as a part of The Neon Museum’s Duck Duck Shed occasion sequence that celebrates the town’s tradition.