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Christopher J this movie is a great direct to video film, good action though slow story progession Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 11/17/24 Full Review Stan S The script, the acting and the special effects are so bad, that it should have been released direct-to-audio. Apart from actors paychecks, the budget must have been less than 100k. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/07/24 Full Review William D This is an okay film that I would recommend watching once but not again. Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 11/27/23 Full Review Audience Member This was really a spectacularly poor film. It has enough redeeming qualities to warrant a 3/10, that's for sure, but the negative aspects are so overwhelming that I can't recommend it in good conscience. The good parts are: a fair amount of high-dollar action and explosions, some good (lazy) Seagal fighting and enough outrageous turn-of-the-century tropes to be ironically funny. But if you're not willing to endure a budget action movie, stop here. Or, keep reading, because I'm funny. The bad, though, are grossly overwhelming. The plot is absurd and provides no real motivation for any of the characters. Sizemore's haunted cop is unconvincing and unemotional and for some reason finds solace in Seagal's cliche-ridden psychological advice. Despite being portrayed as a demotions expert, Seagal rainmans his way through "sophisticated" gear in seconds and is even able to coach a (believably) dumb Sizemore through a defusing in a matter of seconds. Nas puts up a pitifully poor performance, mostly reminiscent of an after-school special about drugs and suicide prevention. There's an entire scene of non-technically demanding driving for which the director saw fit to film on terrible, blurry green screen just before the climax. Throughout the entire film, though it clearly takes place over the course of more than one day based on dialogue and day/night cycles, the characters all wear the exact same clothing. I guess they didn't have money for a different pair of jeans or a seventeenth leather jacket for Sizemore to wear. The City Hall masquerade, which hopefully occurs on Halloween (which is never discussed), seems to be used as an excuse to have extras wear weird costumes, but adds absolutely nothing to the movie but confusion - why is there a functioning bar and dance club inside the San Francisco City Hall? Who let all these teens in? Perhaps most upsetting, though, is Academy Award nominated and prolific actor/director of 40 years Dennis Hopper's confusing and indescribable performance. Though apparently associated with the IRA, he has no Irish accent, except when he talks to his actually Irish henchman, which means either Hopper can't really do an accent unless he just heard it or he's playing a disrespectful guy who mocks his subordinate's accent every time he speaks. Unfortunately, Sizemore is the protagonist here, over Seagal, who appears to have given one of his laziest and weakest performances in retaliation. Jaime Pressly gives it an honest try as the only female character, but her unbelievable relationship with Hopper (32 years her senior) is simply gross and her performance is completely undermined by her hotness relative to the rest of the cast (even with Seagal's flyaway curly ponytail). Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Tom Sizemore and Dennis Hopper on this stupid Seagal flick. But heck somebody got to pay them bills! lol Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Steven Seagal #13: One day, Steven Seagal woke up, looked around and saw that he was making a film with Dennis Hopper, Tom Sizemore and Ice-T, and realized that his destiny was in direct-to-video low budget movies. Steven plays the leader of the San Fran bomb squad. Dennis Hopper plays a terrorist who can’t do an Irish accent. Surprisingly it’s actually Tom Sizemore’s cop trying to catch Dennis Hopper who is the main character in the film, and gets most of the screen time. This film looks like it was filmed by Ed Wood. Most of Steven’s shots are ultra close-up, and he spends almost all his scenes sitting in chairs or cars. Rarely do you see him on his feet. But even worse than that? He uses a stunt double, and not only during action scenes. I later found out these were scenes taken from other movies which had been re-purposed for Seagal. The end scene is taken almost entirely from The Peacekeeper. This is also a film where you get two Seagals for the price of one. There’s a scene in a blues bar with a band playing, and it’s clearly Seagal singing and playing guitar, but he’s wearing a phony beard and glasses. Apparently the director has apologized multiple times for this film and released a director’s cut as a mea culpa. Does that mean I need to watch it again to be a completionist? #AllTheSeagals Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/02/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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