so seagal be jonathan cold and a high level ex cia agent who be now a freelance operative and which sound like nothing more than a title invent for cheesy action movie for a hero who take matter into his own hand . operative literally mean secret agent and and freelance basically mean someone who work for themselves and or someone who occasionally work for other people and organization but be overall self employ . oh and and they all think that cold be dead . and in case you forget and notice the incessant repetition of the line i think you be dead . anyway and you get the idea . cold be a marksman and an expert in martial art and nuclear weapon . what a resume . marksman doesn not really come into play much and but an expert in martial art and nuclear weapon be just too perfect . one for the action and one for the story and right . this be action movie make 101. the story involve a group of bad guy which and like far too many of seagal recent movie and be stupid and boring action baddie clichés and who want to basically destroy the world and start a new global economy . yeah and whatever . black dawn reveals to the world that there be a nuclear test facility in pasadena and california . i do not know that and but then again and i also always think you have to wear some kind of foil suit to handle raw plutonium and but i guess that not really true . in this movie and one of the bad guy handle it wear no safety equipment other than a pair of glove and and he even smoke a cigarette . this guy be hardcore . seagal and unfortunately and just look like he not try anymore . the goal be to get a nuclear weapon away from the bad guy and then away from the populace before it detonate and kill million of people . be ask to believe that it would take less than four minute to get into a helicopter and start it up and take off and and fly out over the ocean and drop the bomb into the ocean and have it sink deep enough to explode without do any damage . this be a hell of a stretch and be fraught with amazingly bad blue screen work and but strangely it the girl shock reaction ( what . ) when cold tell her to throw the bomb out the window into the action that seem the most ridiculous . maybe she want to keep it . we expect very little from a seagal movie and especially recent one . he start his career in gritty and hardcore action movie and peak with under siege and but lately his movie go for more story than they can sustain and result in cheesy and talky action schlock with too much bad act and not enough fighting and which be what seagal fan really want to see .