Good movie... Steven Seagal is Travis Hunter, a Yakuza expert/former CIA agent who is investigating a political assassination along with the naive FBI agent Mathew Davis. After The Foreigner, this one brought us the Seagal we all know : The man with a killer squint and an even more killer set of martial arts skills. Steven Seagal gets a partner in this movie, but he is pretty much under-used.
After failing to get the green light to remake The Yakuza, Seagal went to work on this film instead, which is surprisingly one of his best in years. Seagal not only starred in this film, but also wrote the screenplay and executive produced it and it's a very good film. Good action and a moderate pace make it enjoyable even if you gave up on Seagal after The Glimmer Man. Jazz legend Stanley Clarke did the music for this film as well.
Steven Seagal back to his best, some top action sequences. This movie music playing in about every place, a novelty chopstick death, Eddie George getting shot up at the beginning, swordplay.
A pretty crap movie. Yeah it's entertaining and has some credible one liners but the overrall acting is completely shait and the plot is not original whatsoever.
Come for the cool cover and promise of explosions, trenchcoats and fisticuffs (automatic rifle notwithstanding) and stick around for Takao Osawa's over-the-top character. It sucks. But it's popcorn cinema.
i absolutly was angry at the start wen he had the big gun, but as it went thru i began to think back to the above the law, out for justice days, great movie
After an awful beginning, this movie somehow gets to Japan (it probably makes sense as to why Steve is in Japan, but I haven't seen this movie in a while and tend to forget things) and while in Japan, the movie is fine. Steven Seagal looks like he's actually trying, which is rare for Steve (especially in his direct to video stuff which is what this is.) Sword fight at the end is cool. Anyway, this is a decent direct to video Steven Seagal movie.