AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Protraph Lack of good storyline.

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

dfsheehy-43048 Seriously! You call this a movie. The Director should be shot, and Segal needs acting lessons ....and a diet plan. All I can say is they must've plied investors with a lot of booze, coke, and hookers to make this one. Hell, it was so bad I didn't even put it on pause when I got up to go take a dump. It was like watching Elvis in the last year of his life...pitiful

Leofwine_draca Forget the likes of THE FOREIGNER or even OUT FOR A KILL, as this, Seagal's latest offering, is a cut above the rest. Director Siu-Tung Ching takes the reins and delivers a surprisingly stylish, OTT, action-packed DTV venture that is sure to please any fan of Seagal's, looking for one more decent movie to watch. The Chinese influence is clear in that there is plenty of wirework in the martial arts sequences, but thankfully the action is generally slick, fast and exciting. My only complaint is that they played a pop song over one of the most potentially exciting showdowns – what the hell were they thinking?! The plot is slimfast and slightly reminiscent of COMMANDO: Seagal's daughter is kidnapped by a mock Al-Qaeda sect and he has 76 hours to rescue her. The setting is Thailand, with pretty good use of location photography, and there are lots of peripheral characters milling around. Seagal even has a young lover and a romantic interlude in a bed, you have to wonder if he wrote her into the script himself as a reward for his chastity in his last three or four movies. Anyway, back to the action, and we have lots of bone-breaking, high-kicking fun, including attacks by she-males, sword-wielding nutters, common thugs and an arrow-shooting general in the Thai army who seems incredibly fit. There are huge shoot-outs with hundreds of bullets flying and Seagal's pistol has about 200 bullets in it, amazing stuff.Seagal is looking older every day, and wider. Yet he's more active here than in previous outings and kicks ass in quite a few scenes. There are other hilarious times when he jumps up, changes body shape and does a flying spin-kick on somebody, hmm, can you say body double? Also hilarious are the 'stunts' "performed" by Seagal, such as diving through a wall shooting, or rolling on a rail cart and shooting. Astonishingly, his voice is dubbed too in some moments. Is there anything else this man can surprise us with? Seagal's ranged support includes Rue from STREET FIGHTER (Byron Mann) as a partner who shoots an innocent woman and becomes a monk, and Ash from CASUALTY(Patrick Robinson), pretending to be an American CIA agent. Tom Wu is underused but imposing as a villain. Not a lot else to say, except I haven't seen a film this much fun in a film since it was directed by Mark Lester. Oh, and keep an eye out for the voodoo subplot, great stuff, harks back to the fun of MARKED FOR DEATH.

DigitalRevenantX7 Jake Hopper is a former CIA agent now working as a high-tech thief. His daughter Jessica & her friends are kidnapped by the Abu Karaf, an Islamic extremist group while on holiday in Thailand. Jake returns to the country & asks his old friend Sunti for help. Sunti, now a monk in order to atone for his past where he accidentally killed a woman in a shootout, joins Hopper in pursuing the Abu Karaf. But they soon realise that the group are innocent & are being framed for this by a Thai general who is also a devil worshipper & who plans to get the CIA to eliminate the Abu Karaf in order to stamp out his opposition. Jake & Sunti have less than 72 hours to free the kidnapped & stop the CIA from making a costly mistake.After the utterly pathetic Out for a Kill, Steven Seagal tried a slight change of tack & signed on to make Belly of the Beast shortly after completing work on the previous film. This time, the director is Ching Siu Tung & has actor Tom Wu, who starred in Out for a Kill as a Chinese mobster, playing another villain.Belly of the Beast has been somewhat savaged by the same crowd of critics who saw Out for a Kill, dismissing Belly as more of the same. I, however, tend to disagree. Belly is not a particularly great film, but it is light years ahead of Out for a Kill due to having a better written script & some good action scenes. The acting is also better & there is plenty of dark humour thrown in for good measure. This time, Seagal faces off against a corrupt Thai general & his dark master, as well as a former friend & a ladyboy assassin (in case you don't know what ladyboys are, they are a unique breed of gay men who pose as women until they get their gender reassignment surgery). Seagal also has plenty of dark one-liners to throw in, making the film a laugh riot in terms of enjoyment. The action scenes tend to go to the absurd but are still enjoyable, while the climax, placing Seagal up against Tom Wu's corrupt general in a fight that is assisted by chanting monks fighting the evil priest.The acting is better than usual. Seagal has some issues with his dialogue, with some lines coming out in a slightly different accent, but acquits himself well. Byron Mann makes a good backup & Tom Wu is superbly sinister as the evil general.

thebobo1 Seagal almost seems too mellow in this movie. Its as if he doesn't care at all, and if the movie flops ? GFY! loddy dah dah....dah. The scene when he grabs a bottle of water and another scene when the thai officer is hitting him with the nightstick/baton and seagal is just sitting there so casual looking at him like " what in the hell are you doing " ?? lol... I don't know,, maybe he actually has a sense of humor. Those scenes are so obviously out of sync they couldn't have been taken seriously in the script. But the fight scenes are good and there are plenty of them.. The acting overall seemed a bit forced, phony ,amateur maybe.. but steven seagal kicks a lot of ass. Overall a good movie .