What makes it different from others?

Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Seagal's martial arts skills are set to work in Tokyo where Japanese drug dealers join forces with Chinese Triad gangs to flood the streets of Tokyo with heroin, but make the mistake of killing his bride-to-be, sowing the seeds of their own downfall. The theme is one simply of revenge and the story is not original, but it tells the story in an interesting Tokyo setting. The action sequences are well choreographed and Seagal is well cast, giving a convincing portrayal of an American at one with Japanese culture speaking the language and enjoying all its customs. The villains don't pose much difficulty for him which means tension remains steadily low, but the storyline plays out adequately and the dialogue feels apposite. This is Seagal's best film since Exit Wounds (2001), and the best produced non-theatrical release in which he stars.

Steven Seagal's best film will always be Under Siege to me. Not all his films are a waste of time, but over the years especially the case with Out for a Kill and Submerged his films have taken a nosedive in quality, and have ranged from just okay to very poor.Into the Sun does have a good soundtrack and some decent moments, but overall it was just adequate for me. Into the Sun occasionally looks good, but there are a lot of scenes where the editing looks messy, and the direction is a very uneven mix of occasionally decent to sorely lacking.The characters are little more than walking clichés(that's my opinion of course), with Seagal's partner very underused in particular. I have no better news about the acting, Steven Seagal looks unkempt and gives another quite lazy performance, while William Artherton seemed bored.The fight sequences are not well-edited and don't make much sense within the plot. Speaking of the plot, it is very thin and derivative complete with a pace that is monotonous and sluggish and a script that at best is very weak.Overall, not one of Seagal's finest hours. 3/10 Bethany Cox

"Into the Sun" is one of Seagal's better efforts of late. The plot: Travis Hunter (Seagal) goes to Japan to stop the Yakuza. This time he has a partner named Sean (Davis). They uncover a drug ring bigger than Seagal himself.Most Seagal movies nowadays are shot on the cheap in Bulgaria. But this time around they shot it in Japan. That was a good choice because the colors are bright, and there's a lot of breathtaking sights. Seagal puts in his routine performance, but he smiles!.... On second thought, It's probably a stunt smiler. There's also a few scenes where Hunter speaks Japanese but the townspeople don't. That was weird. I guess only "reported egomaniac" SEAGAL can speak the language. He does put some energy into the fights though, and the climax with the samurai swords was cool."Into The Sun" had a $35 million dollar budget and was supposed to debut in theaters. I don't know why it didn't, it's not a masterpiece but it's just as good as "Exit Wounds".For more insanity, please visit: comeuppancereviews.com

Steven Seagal, The man who seemingly can't walk past a Mcdonalds these days, is back and plays ex-CIA (as always) agent Travis Hunter whose assigned to investigate the killing of the Govenor of Tokyo, as the Murder seems to involve the Yakuza and as Hunter was raised in Japan, he has a lot of connections with the underworld.It actually sounds much better than it is, because INTO THE SUN is such an awfully boring waste of time.The acting is terrible (even by Seagal standards) The action sequences make no sense, Seagal walks around with an FBI agent (you end up thinking this is going to end up a Buddy Movie) but the Agent serves no purpose and doesn't last long anyway and gets quickly forgotten about.They couldn't even afford to hire English Speaking Japanese actors as you need to put your subtitles on to know what's happening, even then you don't care.This is such a disjointed, poorly edited, badly scripted mess. it's woefully Directed by a guy called 'Mink' only on his 2nd feature and it shows.This is such a badly made pile of garbage and a chore to sit through and it's even worse than SHADOW MAN (2006) - No way was anything close to $16,000,000 spent on this dud, maybe a tenth of that at the most. To add insult to injury, this trash is supposed to be a remake of the classic Robert Mitchum Film 'The Yakuza'AVOID!* out of *****