He breaks arms, fights with knives, finds interesting ways to send shrapnel into people, and now he comes with his very own accent! If you're looking for a good action movie, look somewhere else. If you just wanna see Seagal hurt some mobsters, queue this one on your netflix.
I spent the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what accent he was going for. and since the rest of the actors have varying accents, you have to follow the (and I use this term very loosely) story to figure out it's supposed to be Russian. After you finally start breaking through the horrid accents to figure out they're speaking English, you still have to ignore the awful music that seemed to be composed entirely by an accordion.
The story itself wasn't terrible, but the whole revenge plot seems a bit over done. The little tweaks it got to add flavor just seemed weird. For instance: a frag grenade which he uses toward the end is made to kill with shrapnel which is made when it explodes and bursts the casing. But the writer felt the need to have him add more metal objects on top of the grenade to send them into the victim. I also didn't see why he would waste a grenade when he has a ton of guns, unlimited ammo (as usual) and the guy's attention was on the tape recorder so he could have used a knife. And what police dept doesn't check fingerprints? He dropped the M-4 in the hallway of the apartment building where they killed the first thug. It might not have been enough for a conviction, but they would have mentioned it.
When it's all added up, I don't see me recommending this to anyone ever for any reason. There are just too many other movies out there that are less bad than this one.
I spent the first 20 minutes trying to figure out what accent he was going for. and since the rest of the actors have varying accents, you have to follow the (and I use this term very loosely) story to figure out it's supposed to be Russian. After you finally start breaking through the horrid accents to figure out they're speaking English, you still have to ignore the awful music that seemed to be composed entirely by an accordion.
The story itself wasn't terrible, but the whole revenge plot seems a bit over done. The little tweaks it got to add flavor just seemed weird. For instance: a frag grenade which he uses toward the end is made to kill with shrapnel which is made when it explodes and bursts the casing. But the writer felt the need to have him add more metal objects on top of the grenade to send them into the victim. I also didn't see why he would waste a grenade when he has a ton of guns, unlimited ammo (as usual) and the guy's attention was on the tape recorder so he could have used a knife. And what police dept doesn't check fingerprints? He dropped the M-4 in the hallway of the apartment building where they killed the first thug. It might not have been enough for a conviction, but they would have mentioned it.
When it's all added up, I don't see me recommending this to anyone ever for any reason. There are just too many other movies out there that are less bad than this one.