I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

it is the rare 'crazy' movie that actually has something to say.

The first must-see film of the year.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

John Harmon (Steven Seagal) is a former CIA agent reactivated now by a talkative guy with a funny beard who explains way too much before the start. There is going to be a cooperation between a Mexican cartel and a terrorist from Lebanon which Harmon can hopefully stop before it really began. He takes a small team consisting of Matthew Sharp (Russell Wong) who likes flying drones and kicking butts and Zara Hayek (Jemma Dallender) who likes wearing leather jackets and kicking butts. Together they arrive at Istanbul to observe the Mexicans and the terrorist, and they observe in such an obvious way (fancy yellow car, observation camera carried by a drone) that both parties get suspicious. First about each other, then about an unknown third party, so they start looking for their enemy...Another one from Keoni Waxman's factory line of Seagal productions where the occasional fight scenes consist of waving hands so closely before the camera that you can't really see what Seagal is doing, but it seems to hurt extras a lot. The story isn't all bad, because instead of fighting one gang, the heroes get in the middle between two, but still rather simple for 90 minutes. Jemma Dallender, whose performance was awesome in 'I Spit On Your Grave 2', gets a simple role (observe, distract, use a knife of some bad guys), but makes the best out of it. Russell Wong, on the other hand, looks a bit bored. Well, he has reasons for it. An average action production that isn't particularly memorable. Again.

Anyone claiming that this is a good movie should have their head examined. It's obvious and clear as day that Steven Seagal as an 'action star' is over... And it's been over for more than a decade. He is far too fat and old to continue making these straight to video trash movies. Wearing the same glasses in every single movie and the same suit to try and hide his extremely obese frame, (and it's not working) the fight scenes which involve Seagal are a joke. So much editing which translate to the fact the man cannot even raise his hands properly anymore. It's time for him to give this up and go on an Atkins diet. If I could give this 'movie' -10 rating, I would.

In this movie Steven has a relationship with someone at-least half his age and there is some sexual content in this movie too. I found that pretty disturbing actually.The actors in the movie sound like they're reading up a script. The set of the movie is default American-Patriotic.Steven is hardly opening is mouth as he is speaking, making his long dialogues difficult to follow.A handful of elements in the film are repeated about 3 times, also a piece of an airplane blowing out of the sky. The first time is good. The second time is a tad annoying. Every other time is just an insult to the person looking the movie.In several situations you expect some appropriate "speed of handling" would be needed and expected yet the actors walk at a pace like they're in no rush at all. Just doesn't add up to the tiny bit of realism that you are hoping to find in the movie that already has this unrealistic story line.It's a definite NO for me...

Let's face it, most people watch Seagal to see him fight. The story is always the same, he's the best in whatever agency he's in, he always picks his own team, and beats the bad guy(s). We know the story, but we watch him for his fights.Unfortunately, he hardly fights anymore. He put out 6 movies this year and there was not one good fight scene. The last good fight scene he did was against the Russian in Driven to Kill. That was in 2009, 7 years ago. Now he just shoots people in the head or the few fight scenes he does are so edited, you don't know who does what.I know he doesn't have control over how the movie turns out, but he does control the fight scenes. Its become painfully obvious he doesn't care, and I'm done expecting any good fight scenes from him anymore. If you see recent videos on YouTube or photos, you can see he is vastly overweight. How does a 7th degree in Aikido become so undisciplined in diet? How does he accept his pitiful choreographed fight scenes? Another amazing thing with this movie, for the umpteenth time he has sex with a gorgeous woman with his clothes on! This seems like a running joke in all his movies in the last 10 years or so. Director Keoni Waxman, who has directed Seagal at least 7 times, must be having a field day with this joke. Again, Seagal don't seem to get it.In conclusion, there are no good fight scenes and this is not the action star of 20 years ago. The only scene worth watching is the sex scene for the comedy and actress Jemma Dallender fit physique. I hope she got compensated well.