becky878 This movie has some pretty good action scenes and is full of signature Seagal classic moments. The only problem is that it is about 75% all in Japanese with NO SUBTITLES explaining ANYTHING that is happening! I bought the Amazon Instant Video version, so let that be your warning if you go to buy it. (They refunded me for what it is worth and I bought Urban Justice, great Seagal movie) That is the reason I had to dock it, because I missed all the great quotes that I love in my Seagal movies. Eddie George makes a brief appearance early on. I was like what the hell is Eddie George doing here? Early on Steven pulls a classic move: instead of using his silenced weapon to kill a couple baddies, he shoots one with the silencer, then shoots the other with the first bad guys unsilenced assault rifle! YES! I knew this was starting out right. After some good initial action the rest of the movie is pretty much Steven aka Big Poppa, asking Japanese and Chinese people about who the hell knows what because it is literally all in Japanese, then at the end he kills a bunch of people with a sword and it is just over. You will laugh your ass off when he ends up in the park apparently proposing to this chick out of nowhere. I mean, you see this chick twice, then the 3rd time he's getting married? He literally talks in English in two word sentences and people answer him back with 10 minutes of Japanese for basically the whole movie. So, as long as you don't care that you have no idea what is happening most of the time, go ahead and watch this film. I went back and read the teaser on Amazon after I watched it to see what the hell I had just watched and what the story was supposed to be, and it said something about Steven saving the US from a secret nuclear attack!? WTF? I never once caught wind of that in the movie, which just made it even more baffling. If it was in English or had subtitles it would have been so much better.

lost-in-limbo I like Steven Seagal. Who doesn't like Steven Seagal? If you didn't I guess you wouldn't be reading this, yet alone watching the straight-to-DVD film "Into the Sun". The quality of his latter-career is nothing to talk about, and mostly disappointing and forgettable, but despite that I do find it hard not to sit there and be enthralled by the man. Even when his not kicking arse, and sadly I found "Into the Sun" (which Seagal co-wrote and produced) to have too little of it. More time spent sleep walking through it; however its glorious climax is indeed a bloody treat with Seagal going samurai. Chopping and slicing left and right, before breaking out the pistol. Even the editing stands-up better, as it's not choppy as hell (like some later films ala "Against the Dark"). We can "clearly" see him in action. It's too bad he spends more time looking good in his long black leather trench coat while simply wandering or strolling about; listening and talking… then listening some more… and then chatting away. You know; investigating (following up on leads and gathering info) and other things on mind like falling in love. He does take his sweet time, as his investigative partner grows impatient… maybe so the audience. Some times the language barrier (Japanese) keeps it distant, because you don't know what the characters are on about. No sub-titles, so it must be trivial. The narrative can get ponderous, but it's quite choppy too. There's a certain sharp slickness to the production, where it sets up some unnecessary computer images of locations. Fancy, but pointless. The performances are standard, decent enough. A blotchy, muddled Steven Seagal vehicle.

Sandcooler You can think what you want about Steven Seagal, but you definitely can't ignore him. He's not just a movie actor, he's an entire genre all by himself. Within that genre, "Into The Sun" isn't the worst. Not the best either, but worth watching all the way through. Seagal's a bit too out of shape to really match up to what he did in the early 90s, but at least it seems like he's actually trying this time around. He's probably still using stunt doubles, but he sure as hell does it more cleverly this time around. Generally the action scenes just look right, the visual style to this is excellent. I especially enjoyed the grand finale, which focuses on some really well-choreographed sword fights. There are some downsides too, but they are the same downsides pretty much every Seagal flick has. Why do people keep putting Seagal in love subplots? It's embarrassing to watch every time. Also there's the usual spiritual stuff that was only amusing once. This really isn't that bad, but yet again it brings absolutely nothing new.

KHayes666 Steven Seagal plays yet another ex-CIA agent and this time he's got Tennessee Titans running back Eddie George with him......for about 5 minutes.In this one, the Japanese Yakuza plans to unite with the Chinese Triad and its up to Seagal to stop them. Sounds simple but it turns out to be very convoluted. First off they credit Eddie George as one of the stars of the movie and they kill him off before the opening credits...wtf? Its always nice to see William Atherton play the jackass because he does it so well. The movie rolls along and as usual Seagal mows everyone over with little resistance along with a female counterpart to save the day.......yawn.Every Seagal movie is the same these days, an ex-CIA agent that goes after an entire mob of ppl and methodically takes them out with little resistance and ends up saving the day. This time though, its the cultural difference thats confusing. At one point during the flick a bunch of punks gather round to attack Seagal, he points out that half are Chinese and the other are Japanese and 10 years ago that would have never happened. Now to us Americans, if you told us someone was Chinese but was really Japanese how the hell would we know the difference? So we're supposed to watch this and be able to point out who's Triad and who's Yakuza? I know the director/writer is supposed to establish an alliance but when the orginizations hate each other how are we supposed to know? Its a cookie cutter movie where Seagal beats up everyone with little trouble but the cultural impact is the river card to the other movies. in Out For A Kill he was against a Triad, simple enough. This time he's got two cultures to deal with and the storyline gets confusing, but by no means is it that bad of a movie. Another thing is Shawn gets killed and Seagal doesn't comment on it until the very end of the movie If you're a fan of the cultures then its worth the 5 bucks to see it, but if not then go see something else. The highlight of the movie is where Sensei asks which Kendo school Shawn went to and he answers UCLA.4 out of 10