A decent enough sequel that is Die Hard on a train. Seagal has made worse. Roger Ebert mentioned in his review that Seagal was afraid he looked depressed. Due to a recent divorce with his wife.
If he does it at least works since his character is mourning his late brother.
lower than the first, but with enough action to entertain, very young Katherine Heigl. Go for the bad boys Rayback
Review by ShubesBlockedParent2022-06-01T00:21:46Z
I have mixed feelings about this Seagal movie, but most of my negative vibes are due strictly to personal preferences and have little to do with the movie itself. Overall, the story itself is absolutely ludicrous…I mean, I get where they're trying/wanting to go with this but seriously can you at least intersperse some semblance of reality here? I'm all for "disengage your brain and just sit back and have fun" but this one not only PUSHED the boundaries, it flat went outside the boundaries. As a Steven Seagal "Watch Me Kick Some Butt" movie, it was great; if you're at the end of a horrible day at work (like I was), this will probably give you a big kick to sit back and watch it. If you're looking for a "good" movie, however, this isn't it. The story was just too over-the-top ridiculous to be entertaining even for a "disengage your brain" flick. There has to be a limit to how much utter non-believability a story can have and this surpassed that by a long shot. The plot holes weren't just "big enough to drive a truck through"; they were massive enough to fly one of those stealth bombers through. Totally idiotic, for the most part. On the plus side: the Seagal fights were actually pretty good. Morris Chestnutt made the film fun. It was almost action straight out of the gate. Someone mentioned that Seagal had remarked in an interview that was "afraid he came off as looking depressed in the movie due to his recent divorce" but when has Steven Seagal ever looked happy? Seriously. He was as deadpan as he always is, and it didn't hurt a thing.
I have to give this film a fairly high score simply because it was action-packed, had some decent fight scenes, and kept my attention throughout. But on the flip side of the coin, I can't give it a "great" score because there was too much about it that was just a personal turn-off to me. Watch it, enjoy it, or don't enjoy it. Seagal has done better, but he's done worse.