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Perhaps Steven Seagal should consider retirement?
A Customer from Birmingham, UK,
19th June, 2005
The first confusing thing about this film is the title - for a 90 minute flic, less than 20 minutes or so are spent in the sub, and it is not crucial to the plotline either as the action could just have easily taken place on a ship or on an airliner. Despite what the synopsis states, the sub is not nuclear (it is an old diesel sub) and the fight is not with terrorists, but with former special forces soldiers under mind control. Most of the action in this film takes place on land. The plot, such as it is, concerns Seagal as a disgraced former special ops soldier, who is offered a reprieve from his prison sentence if he undertakes a mission to kill a mad scientist working with South American terrorists. What Seagal and his team are not told is that this scientist has perfected mind control techniques and has converted soldiers previously sent to capture him. Seagal has to track down this madman, who graduates to working for a large South American corporation, before he assassinates the Uruguayan President using his mind controlled fiance. Seagal proceeds to deal with the scientist and a former CIA agent who betrays him. The action in the flic is more gunplay than martial arts, perhaps in deference to the fact that Seagal is getting older, although Vinnie Jones, who plays Seagal's deputy, provides a lot of graphic violence and swearing. The film seems to consist of a collection of set pieces but the linkage between them is not always clear - the scene in the sub, for example, takes place early on in the film and is then not referred to again. Much of the dialogue is trite also - in one scene where Seagal and his crew come across an Uruguayan demonstration/riot Vinnie Jones remarks than it reminds him of a soccer match in England! I think the film was an attempt to capture the tension and thrills of Seagal's Under Siege movies, but it fails miserably. Although I am a fan of Seagal's older films, I think that if he cannot make films better than this now it may be time to hang up his boots.
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