For fans of Steven Seagal who have been mostly disappointed since Under Siege, this was actually kind of refreshing. It certainly had many elements that could have been much better (the lack of chemistry between the "father" and the "daughter" was almost laughable) but it came close to harking back to the early days of Seagal just being the wrong dude to mess with. For one thing, he wasn't strutting around trying to speak street ebonics like he was "kickin' it wit' da homies, kno'msay'nnnnnn"; he was just a cop that had been forced out but still had the fight in him and got a chance to let it all fly down in "San Antonio". (They threw in a shot of the Alamo and the Riverwalk from San Antonio, but I'm pretty sure this was filmed in CA.) For another thing, the whole "tough guy" act just seemed - to me - to "flow naturally", like it did in his early movies. He carried himself like he used to: "I'm a bad man and I know what I'm capable of." Didn't feel forced or augmented or anything like so many of his D2V later films have felt. The one thing - and I know it's too late because he hasn't made a movie since 2019 so it appears that, at age 74, Seagal's filming career is finally over - that I wish he would have changed - in pretty much ALL of his later movies - is just talk like Seagal talks; forget trying to speak with a Russian accent ( Driven to Kill ) or trying to speak Spanish (in this film) or trying to speak Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean, or any other foreign language. Just speak English, and be the Italian "Toscani" or "Nico" from your earliest films. But apart from that, this had most all the elements of a decent action flick. Sure, the acting was subpar, but that's all you can expect with low-budget direct-to-video films, when no one in Hollywood is willing to work with you anymore. Probably my biggest complaint is the abrupt ending; even though the story was "finished", and it wasn't a "surprise" ending (by a long shot), I still sat here staring at the screen until the credits started rolling because the final scene didn't seem to "fit"; I wasn't sure what was happening. All that aside, this is probably one of the better Seagal movies that he did later in his career, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys the "never-win-an-Oscar-but-he-still-kicks-butt" Steven Seagal movies.
Review by ShubesBlockedParent2022-08-23T22:17:02Z
For fans of Steven Seagal who have been mostly disappointed since Under Siege, this was actually kind of refreshing. It certainly had many elements that could have been much better (the lack of chemistry between the "father" and the "daughter" was almost laughable) but it came close to harking back to the early days of Seagal just being the wrong dude to mess with. For one thing, he wasn't strutting around trying to speak street ebonics like he was "kickin' it wit' da homies, kno'msay'nnnnnn"; he was just a cop that had been forced out but still had the fight in him and got a chance to let it all fly down in "San Antonio". (They threw in a shot of the Alamo and the Riverwalk from San Antonio, but I'm pretty sure this was filmed in CA.) For another thing, the whole "tough guy" act just seemed - to me - to "flow naturally", like it did in his early movies. He carried himself like he used to: "I'm a bad man and I know what I'm capable of." Didn't feel forced or augmented or anything like so many of his D2V later films have felt. The one thing - and I know it's too late because he hasn't made a movie since 2019 so it appears that, at age 74, Seagal's filming career is finally over - that I wish he would have changed - in pretty much ALL of his later movies - is just talk like Seagal talks; forget trying to speak with a Russian accent ( Driven to Kill ) or trying to speak Spanish (in this film) or trying to speak Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Korean, or any other foreign language. Just speak English, and be the Italian "Toscani" or "Nico" from your earliest films. But apart from that, this had most all the elements of a decent action flick. Sure, the acting was subpar, but that's all you can expect with low-budget direct-to-video films, when no one in Hollywood is willing to work with you anymore. Probably my biggest complaint is the abrupt ending; even though the story was "finished", and it wasn't a "surprise" ending (by a long shot), I still sat here staring at the screen until the credits started rolling because the final scene didn't seem to "fit"; I wasn't sure what was happening. All that aside, this is probably one of the better Seagal movies that he did later in his career, and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys the "never-win-an-Oscar-but-he-still-kicks-butt" Steven Seagal movies.