steven seagal be back . here with his third film release this year . of course a a one time fan who have become increasingly disgruntled i can say it come a no surprise that this be pretty lame . firstly the film make headline because of apparent problem in production due to seagal . he would turn up late on set and change the script and crew etc and generally cause problem for the director and don e faun leroy ( his lack of talent his trouble enough . ) . this also happen in their second collaboration the upcoming mercenary which promise to be just as bad a this garbage . this also mark a big turning point in seagal career because this film be the first of his to really dig out the stock footage . there be a little in ticker but this film take the biscuit . they borrow bit from and the order ( a van damme movie and seagals big rival in dtv movie . ) no code of conduct and undisputed and and also an entire action sequence from the little known peter weller star vehicle top of the world . interestingly the car chase steal from weller epic and make almost 10 year ago and ironically probably cheap than this garbage and be actually by far the best action scene of the film . i be shock enough when dolph lundgren have a brief stint in the stock action video world and which thankfully he have escape from . seagal though be the leader of the dtv action market currently and with van damme and snip his main rival . seagal still manage to sell movie and for the life of me i do not know how . surely the fan must be get bore of this awfulness and longing for a return to the like of above the law . the story here be totally lame . in fact the film have so many plot hole it doesn not bare think about . for example at the end of a film there a little girl that seagal apparently know at an orphanage who he give a necklace to . why i do not know but we never see her at all in the rest of the movie and or hear her mention . seagal have a girlfriend in this movie who at the beginning of the film be with a psychic and she becomes haunt by vision and which by the end of the film be never explain and mean nothing . the film be so ridiculously glue together by a series of meaningless pap that it become headache induce . this be by far seagal dumb movie . seagal himself be as wooden a ever and however to his credit he doesn not get dub in this one as far a i could tell . seagal do however feel the need to talk like he be a gangsta rapper and make me long for the day he would don his brooklyn or italian american accent and in his classic early film . he also have a painfully unfunny double act with treach and who i assume be a rapper . it be funny how producer seem to think that the combo of seagal and plus hip hop star seem to work and because his team up with dmx in exit wound be his most successful film since under siege . clearly though if no one have hear of the rapper and it would not work . this be an action film though and so the action itself must be judge . unfortunately the action that do not come form the nu image back catalogue be strictly routine . there be a few small fight scene with some classic seagal aikido but when 90 % be perform by his stunt double and who really do have a rigorous work out in this film and it really doesn not impress much . there be also some standard gun fight which really only have some nice violent and bloody squibbage go for them . all in all this be a painfully boring experience and once again i be leave give the same verdict represent seagal have lose it . i keep ask the year old question now and why do people still watch his movie . that be all very well and good a a question but the sad bastard that i be continue to watch his film in the deluded hope he may do something good once again . chance be slim and unlike seagal ever expand waistline . half .