.. you know the one where you exactly know how its gonna end, and the one where the main character never gets even a scratch..bad acting. Poor swedish fellow Dolf, I really liked him, its sad that he gets these bad roles..
Poor Dolf gets a bad role? It's actually his film, he wrote it and directed it. Im sure he had a choice as to appearing in it...
shareActually, I'm not sure he wrote it. He got a "story by" credit in the opening, which was quickly followed by the credit for the real writer...but yeah, I guess the idea to do a rejig of The Punisher was all his.
Slightly off topic, but what did people think of the ending. I know the flatness of the story has been pointed out on this board, but I found the ending hysterical.
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Having killed his nemesis, and said his farewells to his cohorts he marches up the hill into his former hometown...the movie could've ended there and then IMO
Penultimate scene is the reunion of the hostage with her mother at the border. Stereotypical crescendo of music, slow motion running etc etc but Cherenko's humility and singlemindedness in avenging his family shone through and he wasn't part of the handover. Typically this was the moment I would've expected to see Dolph smile to himself at the reunion, nod to himself acknowledging a job well done, and then turn his back to the camera in order for the credits to roll.
But since he was nowhere to be found, it was obvious that they were going to have to squeeze in another scene somehow. A Dolph movie can't end without Dolph onscreen!! Sure enough, some random cut of Dolph standing in the middle of Russia, doing absolutely nothing constructive or relevant to the storyline pops up. Cue closing credits.
It was at that point that I burst out laughing. This is why I'm never disappointed by a Dolph film. The tackiest parts are the most entertaining.
You have a strange sense of humor.
shareHe doesn't give S H I T about the girl. He goes to russia only when the mother tells him that its Sasha who kidnapped her. After he blows up Sasha's head (which was freakin awesomely done, walking slowly over the water trying not get himself wet) he knows that Burton n Yuri would take care of the girl.
Thats why he doesn't care about being with the girl when she is being returned to the mother.
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If they make you really hate the bad guy(like they do in some films), you wouldn't want it to end any other way.
shareThis movie was freakin awesome, the acting, the action and the director were all incredible. Dolph movies in the last 4 years have been much better than steven seagal movies. Some people are blind to see that, give Dolph a chance, give him a bigger budget to direct movies and you will see how well his movies will do.
shareIt's different from a Steven Seagal film for three reasons:
1) Nikolai was struck during a fight with one of the guards in the nightclub. Best I can tell, Seagal hasn't been struck in a fight since before Fire Down Below came out. He's been pistol whipped from behind and a man with a katana cut him across the foot (blink and you'll miss it), but that's pretty much it. In Seagal's straight to video fair, he never gets into a face to face, hand to hand, fight where an opponent gets a clean punch or kick anymore.
2) Nikolai was tackled to the ground by friends and/or family members when his wife and son were shot in order to prevent him from being killed as well. Again, with Seagal, no one could ever hold him down like that. The only way to get to a member of his family is if you attack them while he's out of reach because he'd escape any attempt to hold him back and pursue the bad guys.
3) Seagal's hubris knows no bounds. His characters are always ridiculous in their abilities and achievements. If he isn't a trilingual government assassin who has climbed Mt. Everest on a day off, he's the owner of a Fortune 500 company, an international spy, and a man with a greater level of "chi" than anyone else, which allows him to splatter men's insides with a single perfectly timed punch.
Dolph did pretty much escape unscathed, but it wasn't because he wrote himself to look like the baddest man alive. Most of the battles were gunfights and the only hand to hand fight he was in saw him getting struck. Perhaps they could have had him clipped in an arm or a leg during one of the gun fights, but it wasn't really necessary. I'm a guy who complains when characters are portrayed as too invincible and this didn't really bother me.
Seagal is nowhere near as badass as Lundgren.
The finale with the double barreled shotgun is one to be remembered.
by - mirelm
A typical Steven Segal movie..
.. you know the one where you exactly know how its gonna end, and the one where the main character never gets even a scratch..
So, espionage action in Eastern Europe is a Segal-type movie & should be only for him?
Thank you for telling us of of you narrow-minded, ignorant attitude.
Let me tell you of some of other movies that I like, and then I want your opinion on how those are similar to other movies which preceded it. I also have some balloons for my daughter. Would you like to stick a pin to them?