A perk of Steven Seagal films - odd people occasionally pop up in them. This one has villains that include Luke Goss (from Bros) and Robert Guenver Smith (from a lot of Spike Lee movies) and an ally played by Michael Kenneth Williams who was in Boardwalk Empire.
But then this had a decent budget, I think. It certainly looks fantastic with high production value, snazzy cinematography and location filming in South Africa.
There's some enjoyably tough dialogue and a strong cast - not just the names I mentioned but other less familiar people. Seagal is ideal as a mercenary, the film has a strong cynical tone which suits it and I really liked how women had prominent roles - they take part in the action and everything, notably a blonde mercenary and Seagal's sidekick played by Jacqueline Lord.
The main problem I had with this was the plot which was very confusing - Seagal led a team of mercenaries who think they're fighting for good but actually they're doing it to make money for members of the CIA, and some of his team are good and some are bad, and some family friends are kidnapped to make him to bad, and the bad members of his team kidnap some French diplomats. Then there's storylines about robbing a bank, and busting the son of a billionaire out of prison.
I had a lot of trouble following it. Basically Seagal has this little gang - himself, Lord and Williams - and they go around saving the day. But it was too messy, really.
Still, a decent enough DTV Seagal movie.
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