black dawn start at a federal prison in utah where rouge cia agent and nuclear weapon expert ( . ) jonathan cold ( steven seagal and also producer ) break international arm dealer michael donovan ( julian stone ) out . impressed with cold efficient work donovan offer him a job and a job to oversee his buy a new nuclear weapon from some crazy scientist dude and obtain the plutonium to power it . jump to los angeles where the deal be to take place and where cia agent and cold friend amanda stuart ( tamara davy ) have donovan brother james ( john pyper ferguson ) under surveillance and however when she be catch by donovan men cold have to blow his cover and rescue her . now the donovan have plan for a nuclear weapon and the equipment to build it that they intend to sell to a bunch of russian suicide bomber who intend to become marters when they blow los angeles up and that be unless one man army cold can stop them . direct by alexander gruszynski this be actually a sequel to seagal terrible early straight to video or dvd action thriller the foreigner ( 2003 ) a couple of year previous in which he play cia agent jonathan cold race across europe with a deadly package and so black dawn which be title the foreigner 2 in some country move the story to the u and be the sequel no one want . the plot be short on action and seagal fan look forward to some of his trademark martial art fight will be disappoint a there isn not any and the too complex for it good plot be all over the place and completely fail to engage or grip and be pretty standard action thriller fare without much action or many thrill . there this really dumb twist at the end when some guy we have only see once be reveal to be behind it or something yet for some reason he be there to start the bomb and kill the russian terrorist and why not just let the russian start the bomb and blow themselves up and like just make sure your out of los angeles well in advance . why stick around to potentially be blow up in a nuclear holocaust . if donovan be go to double cross the russian why be he so bother about find the real plutonium . just give them vial of water or something and how would they know . open them up and have a taste . i do not think so . the pace be alright and it keep move along but the plot be weak and predictable and the character be forgettable . the action be pretty poor apart from a reasonable car chase involve a huge dumper truck which be quite good and probably belongs in a good film than black dawn . the only fight scene in black dawn see one of the bad body double ever stand in for seagal who be fat in this and in fact he be really fat and out of shape in this . this fight be film so you never see cold face but the stunt double body be all wrong and you can just tell it not seagal . other than that it just a fairly dull succession of shoot out between people . there a big cgi computer effect explosion at the end but if it really be a nuclear bomb there would have be an electro magnetic pulse which would have shut down all electrical equipment include the helicopter seagal be fly and thus send him crash into the ocean but black dawn isn not that concern with factual accuracy . with a supposed budget of about $ 15 and 000 and 000 black dawn look alright and it a little flat and forgettable but the production value be decent enough . the act isn not great from no one of any interest and seagal again seem dub a lot of the time . black dawn be a poor action thriller that fail to deliver on any count and it dull and boring and utterly forgettable . not quite as bad a the foreigner but not too far behind it .