becky878 Not bad at all. I came into this with low expectations, but Steven never seems to let me down. The first and last scenes of the movie where he is interacting with his daughter are comical. He just doesn't know how to act around children and it shows. This deals with his daughter getting kidnapped, biological weapons of terror, and some Romanian gangs with police corruption aka a true Seagal story line. The man literally blows apart a watermelon INTERNALLY with his super move, which is foreshadowing at its finest. He is so badass in this movie, he shoots down a helicopter with a pistol and it explodes as if an atomic bomb went off! He even gets locked in a room and has to make his own shotgun out of metal pipes he rips out of walls, all MacGuyverish. He also makes household objects into bombs and more. There is a major love interest in this film. You can't tell if they love or hate each other most of the time. But you know that no lady can resist that ponytail. The ending is weird. It has a climax and then introduces the real bad guy type thing but it is already past the climax. I mean they I see what they went for but it is contrived. Then he is sitting at a picnic with his daughter and he's all, give that apple to that horse, and then cut to cheesy smiling still shot of Steven and end transmission. It is ludicrous, but oh so Steven. I am sure he wrote that scene himself. All in all, pretty good Seagal flick that you need to watch.

David Love Steven Seagal plays ex-CIA agent Jack Foster, who arrives at a Romanian airport with his 8 year old daughter Amanda (played well by Skye Bennett). However the holiday starts badly as a car bomb goes off. This is a spectacular explosion. Amanda is kidnapped (or is she?) by Anya (Eva Pope). Eva Pope is very easy on the eye and handles her role well. It's good to see Seagal employing a few good actors.Jack's father-in-law George (Michael Elwyn) has smuggled out the formula for a bio-warfare chemical that the CIA, the Romanian mafia and the Romanian cops all want for differing reasons and everyone suspects that George has used either Jack or Amanda to smuggle it into the country.Jack now searches for his daughter. Ambassador Cochran is looking for her too. Amazingly, Imelda Staunton fitted this rubbish in between Vera Drake and Harry Potter! Jack is also being chased by former CIA colleagues including Harry (Vincent Riotta).There are lots of shootings, fights, torture. Usual stuff. Seagal is again bloated, slow, has a strange skin colour and mumbles his dialogue. Having said that, I have seen him worse, which probably shows I've been watching too many of his films.Director Michael Keusch uses the 'modern' style of quick cut editing and shaky camera moves but you get used to it. The script is by Steven Collins, Joe Halpin and Seagal. It's a bit predictable but this isn't Shakespeare. It's Seagal.

Scarecrow-88 Fortune 500 businessman(!)and former CIA operative, Jack Foster(Steven Seagal)arrives in Bucharest, Romania, for a vacation with his daughter(..his wife, her mother was born there and this trip was to mark the fifth anniversary of her death visiting the place of her conception)only to have her kidnapped by a taxi driver, Anya(Eva Pope)after a bomb explosion supposedly killed George(Michael Elwyn; Foster's father-in-law, himself a former CIA agent). What Jack didn't know was that George had stolen a micro chip containing the formula for a virus to be used as a bio weapon, slipping it in a pen of his. George would sell it to the highest bidder, having Jack carry the micro chip as an involuntary courier. So Jack, with both a crooked politia, FSB(..a new branch of the KGB)and a member of the US Embassy, Waters(Garrick Hagon)and his goons desiring to get the micro chip, will be on the run, while also pursuing the location of his daughter, soon, in fact, joining forces with Anya(..who actually momentarily saved Amanda, his daughter, from being captured by Waters as planned)to evade and eliminate those that threaten his daughter's well being. Essentially shot in the Peter Greengrass method(Bourne Supremacy;Bourne Ultimatum) that has become popular in lower budgeted action flicks concerning a hero on the lam, equipped with superior skills, always one step ahead of the enemy, moving through a European location, this time Bucharest(..probably because it's simply cheaper to shoot in this city which favors Russia and Checkoslovakia)...the camera constantly moving, characters shot in and out of frame, with rarely any composed shots lasting longer than seconds giving editor Andy Horvitch plenty of work to do.Interesting to see Imelda Staunton in such a film as this, made for DVD action fare, as Cochran, Ambassador of the US Embassy, who will not tolerate her own people causing mischief, or allowing a dangerous micro chip loose in Bucharest. Jack, who simply wants his daughter back, will use all his fighting skills(..and other techniques, such as a gnarly bomb he sets up to escape being trapped by mercenaries)in order to secure Amanda(Skye Bennett) to safety. Vincent Riotta has a supporting role as Harry, a former partner of Jack's, who sets him up, hoping his guys get the micro chip. Plot-wise, this is one of Seagal's more ambitious films, allowing his Jack to move about in the Bourne tradition. Seagal is pretty much Bourne, just a little less athletic, seeking after a daughter, her safety and security what drives him to obliterate anyone that stands in his way. As we are accustomed to, Seagal uses both his swift martial arts skills(..his hands and the power that derives from their speed)and a hand gun when needed to successfully remove those that interfere with his determined goal. As expected, there is a car chase as Jack, with Harry in tow, is pursuing Anya(..who had just lifted Amanda from the street before Waters' men could nab her)through Bucharest.

Tom Erik Høiås I bought this movie fully aware that Steven Seagal movies are just OK, or damn right lame. but sometimes you're in luck. unfortunately this wasn't it.you get that b-movie 90's feel. it's OK to watch, but you crave for something more. that something is called acting. you can see in Seagal's face that he just don't give damn. its just another forgettable action movie that he just don't get in to the plot. movies like "marked for death" and "under siege" where superb. and i truly believe he could make these types of movies again. he just needs to fire his agent and find a really talented director with a bright idea. then you have have the whole nine yards. but after 'mistakes' like this,"black dawn" and "into the sun" etc. i would be dreaming if i could see Seagal in a high budget action movie with capable co-stars, and full devotion shining on his face! i am still hoping! good night, and good luck!