Lets dissect a Seagal movie:
Major Ingrediensts ------------------- 1. Steven Seagal on 90% of scenes. He is The Good, The Mind. The heart and Logic, fearless and powerful, A sex God who never gets old. 2. A dead wife (his recent movies) who has been a good house maid and it ends here. Everything is house is Steve's taste. 3. A Cute pre-school girl who talks like a teenager and doesn't know the meaning of fear and never stops to ask her dad to go to trips, troubles always come when he wants to give up a few seconds to his beloved daughter. Ah damn problems they never end. 4. A fortune company kicking ass under his nonexistent management and supervision, he just slaps and breaks hand and it works that way, the wealths keeps coming. 5. A girlfriend who is so young, so sexy and looses no time to get naked. She is She never has any idea, is semi Mute + Brainless + Idol and wants nothing more than life but sleeping with Steve which he is too tired of that due to overwhelming offers. 6. The rest of world, which is either Bad or Stupid. good ones fall under second category. 7. Car driving (no matter driving like turtles, it IS fast enough) 8. Couple explosions 9. Some kicking, braking hands and necks, 10. Pistol shots and some other cliché stuff of this genre.
Minor Ingredients ------------------ 1. A bar with half naked girls and exotic dancers (essential) 2. A martial arts house, Japanese type and Steve talking about it's effect on body and mind, in couple minutes we see it's all worthless, the only thing that counts is slapping on face 3. A rotten friend or cop
Rules ------ 1. Bullets out of Steve pistol find their way, say "intelligently". so don't bother if he shoots 45 degrees to the ground and brings down a chopper. 2. Bullets out of enemy guns are afraid of him and "change their way" before reaching him. So a gang of professionals are very unable to shoot him with machine guns and aiming perfectly 3. He is law, that's why he loves law and people see no problem with that.
During recent years his movies lost most of their essential ingredients we are accustomed to, hopefully he is back once more with a bag of all good old tricks, a very Seagal movie. He is the mind of a 4 year old boy in a 300+ pound 6" body barely able to walk fast and his martial arts are nothing but slaps but he looks so confident, a self esteem we all enjoy watching his movies. I think he truly believes in what he does and the child inside him sees him the master of martial arts and that's why his acts look so real as if he really believes the bad guy has broken in half under his feast.
Once again he is the first guy in charge and better say the only one in the movie! all Romania is against him and everyone is bad, the Romanian police, Russians, US government and his father in law are are mafia! The only (somehow) good girl in the movie is an ex-agent who has no idea how to protect herself.
The plot is so cheesy I am not going to go into detail. Don't ask why he keeps on giving the Romanian Ex-Agent good compliments about her inside, he sees his beloved precious daughter that worths him everything getting attracted to her and he wisely chooses the sexy idol girlfriend over her. He is scientist, genius, understanding and very loyal lovely dad after all and women are the same, even this ex-agent looses control and starts getting naked for him on her first chance but her time is over.
Special effects are awful and goofs are endless, don't be bothered when the cab has a single passenger on long shots and two in close ups. The car shots are among the worst I have seen in recent years. The car is in studio and a green background is moving behind the car nevertheless it's running in front of cars, fountain, traffic or anything and you feel like the car is turning round itself! The Seagal reactions are very funny compared to turbulence of the image behind. The scene he shots down the chopper is terrific fun, turning around with a camera on shoulders giving the idea of a chopper in turning motion! the explosion turns out so cheap. Overally the film is so short on budget even the cars collide carefully.
The cast is mediocre but Eva Pope gives an acceptable performance. Seagal is old and slow but he does his tricks several times in this movie.
It's a real Seagal movie, I have always liked his unique style and I enjoyed this movie very much, a wonderful choice for the weekend at home.
Highly recommended for Seagal fans, overall 4/10
Major Ingrediensts ------------------- 1. Steven Seagal on 90% of scenes. He is The Good, The Mind. The heart and Logic, fearless and powerful, A sex God who never gets old. 2. A dead wife (his recent movies) who has been a good house maid and it ends here. Everything is house is Steve's taste. 3. A Cute pre-school girl who talks like a teenager and doesn't know the meaning of fear and never stops to ask her dad to go to trips, troubles always come when he wants to give up a few seconds to his beloved daughter. Ah damn problems they never end. 4. A fortune company kicking ass under his nonexistent management and supervision, he just slaps and breaks hand and it works that way, the wealths keeps coming. 5. A girlfriend who is so young, so sexy and looses no time to get naked. She is She never has any idea, is semi Mute + Brainless + Idol and wants nothing more than life but sleeping with Steve which he is too tired of that due to overwhelming offers. 6. The rest of world, which is either Bad or Stupid. good ones fall under second category. 7. Car driving (no matter driving like turtles, it IS fast enough) 8. Couple explosions 9. Some kicking, braking hands and necks, 10. Pistol shots and some other cliché stuff of this genre.
Minor Ingredients ------------------ 1. A bar with half naked girls and exotic dancers (essential) 2. A martial arts house, Japanese type and Steve talking about it's effect on body and mind, in couple minutes we see it's all worthless, the only thing that counts is slapping on face 3. A rotten friend or cop
Rules ------ 1. Bullets out of Steve pistol find their way, say "intelligently". so don't bother if he shoots 45 degrees to the ground and brings down a chopper. 2. Bullets out of enemy guns are afraid of him and "change their way" before reaching him. So a gang of professionals are very unable to shoot him with machine guns and aiming perfectly 3. He is law, that's why he loves law and people see no problem with that.
During recent years his movies lost most of their essential ingredients we are accustomed to, hopefully he is back once more with a bag of all good old tricks, a very Seagal movie. He is the mind of a 4 year old boy in a 300+ pound 6" body barely able to walk fast and his martial arts are nothing but slaps but he looks so confident, a self esteem we all enjoy watching his movies. I think he truly believes in what he does and the child inside him sees him the master of martial arts and that's why his acts look so real as if he really believes the bad guy has broken in half under his feast.
Once again he is the first guy in charge and better say the only one in the movie! all Romania is against him and everyone is bad, the Romanian police, Russians, US government and his father in law are are mafia! The only (somehow) good girl in the movie is an ex-agent who has no idea how to protect herself.
The plot is so cheesy I am not going to go into detail. Don't ask why he keeps on giving the Romanian Ex-Agent good compliments about her inside, he sees his beloved precious daughter that worths him everything getting attracted to her and he wisely chooses the sexy idol girlfriend over her. He is scientist, genius, understanding and very loyal lovely dad after all and women are the same, even this ex-agent looses control and starts getting naked for him on her first chance but her time is over.
Special effects are awful and goofs are endless, don't be bothered when the cab has a single passenger on long shots and two in close ups. The car shots are among the worst I have seen in recent years. The car is in studio and a green background is moving behind the car nevertheless it's running in front of cars, fountain, traffic or anything and you feel like the car is turning round itself! The Seagal reactions are very funny compared to turbulence of the image behind. The scene he shots down the chopper is terrific fun, turning around with a camera on shoulders giving the idea of a chopper in turning motion! the explosion turns out so cheap. Overally the film is so short on budget even the cars collide carefully.
The cast is mediocre but Eva Pope gives an acceptable performance. Seagal is old and slow but he does his tricks several times in this movie.
It's a real Seagal movie, I have always liked his unique style and I enjoyed this movie very much, a wonderful choice for the weekend at home.
Highly recommended for Seagal fans, overall 4/10