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Loud and multiple bangs for your bucks. Quite tolerable. After flatlining for twenty minutes an FBI agent(Steven Seagal)feels bullet proof and infiltrates a crime syndicate and lands in the New Alcatraz. His mission is to rescue a death row inmate and ends up thwarting a plot to recover stolen gold bricks. The typical Seagal martial arts is coupled with some moderately impressive F/X to hold your attention. The cast is talented as diverse and includes: Nia Peeples, Ja Rule, Morris Chestnut, Claudia Christian and Stephen Cannell. I find Peeples to be one sexy villian...she always seems to impress me! Not the best or worse Seagal flick and it helps to have very few dull moments. A big thumbs up for an FBI guy that rides the flatline.

Truly, Steven Seagal has nothing better to do with his time than sharing screen time with wannabe actors/rappers. Clearly, this was one of those films which had no real point to it other than trying to appeal to a certain demographic in hopes of making a few bucks. One has to wonder what a person was thinking when the idea of investing in this film came. Anyway, this was just a another reason why Seagal is past his prime, and should try playing quirky roles as opposed to being a tough guy or something. It's hard to say anything else about this movie, considering very little care was put into it.

Say what you will about this movie, but it pleasantly surprised me. Sure, it has millions of cliches and isn't very original, but it was a good movie, in my opinion. Ja Rule and Seagal worked well together. There was actually some emotions in a Seagal movie, that shocked me by surprise. Pretty good action sequences and lots of gunfire and explosives, what more can you expect out of an action film. Don't believe all the negative reviews until you've seen it. You will either love it or hate it, but at least give it a view before you knock it. 7 out of 10 stars for me.