mercenary for justice start a corrupt cia agent john dresham ( luke goss ) and all round bad guy anthony chapel ( roger guenveur smith ) arrange the kidnapping of the french ambassador in a remote african island use hard a nails gulf war veteran john seeger ( co executive producer and uncredited co writer steven seagal ) and some of his mate a cover and plausible deniability and all that apparently . john isn not happy when he learn the truth and be even less happy when his best mate radio jones ( zaa nkweta ) be kill during the fighting . back in the u and john promise to look after radio widow shondra ( faye peter ) and young son eddie ( tumi mogoje ) but chapel be hire by billionaire greek arab arm dealer ahmet dasan ( peter butler ) to break be son out of prison and kidnap both shondra and eddie in order to force seeger to carry out the break . seeger isn not happy and his mood doesn not improve and set out to gain revenge on those who double cross him and be threaten the life of his friend family . this arubian and american and south african co production be direct by don e. fauntleroy who be also credit a cinematographer mercenary for justice be the second of three awful straight to video or dvd action flick he make with seagal ( the other be today you die ( 2005 ) and urban justice ( 2007 ) which be just a bad ) and at this stage i seriously doubt whether seagal will ever make a decent action film again and entertain action fare such a hard to kill ( 1990 ) and mark for death ( 1990 ) and out for justice ( 1991 ) and the two under siege ( 1992 and 1995 ) film seem a distant memory from a very long time ago . one of the main problem with mercenary for justice in my opinion be that it insanely complicate and try to be too clever and there be all sort of vague double cross and ulterior motif and suppose twist and turn that be just so contrived and convolute that they make little sense and be so badly write and present end up make the whole film feel like a complete unfocused mess . no one motif be ever fully reveal and i still do not really know what that cia guy play by luke goss be all about and why be seagal and his men fight at the start and who be chapel and why do he hire people he couldn not control and the whole thing be just a mess that jump around from scene to scene try to be clever but it so poorly put together it annoyingly confuse . even though it only last for about an hour and a half it feel much and much long which be never a good sign and the dialogue be terrible and the character be not flesh out and their motif be never make clear and there isn not even much action in it which be the final nail in it coffin really as far a i be concern . these day seagal be fat and you can see it and he out of shape and not that menace and he look sluggish and slow and unconvincing in the action scene . there be one or two fight which be quite violent but for the most part he leave the action to other people and be it any coincidence that one of the other main character be fat than he be . i be sure that guy bulldog be there to make sure seagal isn not the fat person on screen during the action . during the old day seagal action scene be base around brutal martial art violence and amuse one liner and these day he can barely walk yet alone pull those move off . there be a few explosion and a few shoot out and some fight but nothing special or that memorable . accord to the imdb this have a budget of about $ 15 and 000 and 000 which i do not believe for a second and there be no way this cheap look film cost that much . apparently shoot in bulgaria and south africa . the act suck and seagal minus pony tail mumble his way through the film a usual while luke goss have manage to put this turkey behind him have appear in the recent hellboy ii represent the golden army ( 2008 ) . mercenary for justice be another terrible low budget shot in eastern europe action flick with seagal who really should either lose some weight or call it a day and realise that he can not make these action film anymore . not good .