I'll tell you why so serious

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

best movie i've ever seen.

This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

The rugged and chubby Steven Seagal is William Lansing, a caring ex- CIA agent who takes care of injured animals and sponsors an orphanage in Europe who also corresponds with one of the orphan's as a pen pal, Irena (Ida Nowakowska.)The orphanage is actually a front for a child sex trafficking ring run by Faisal (Matt Schulze) that kidnaps the teenage girl along with others to sell them to some Middle Eastern types it seems.Seagal springs into action to rescue the girl. Of course as Seagal has put on some girth we get less action here, presumably not many fat stunt doubles around with martial arts expertise and we see Seagal using more brain power to solve riddles. Which presumably is the reason why he has a carpet on his head.The plot is nonsense with lots of plot holes. At least Schulze takes it all seriously as the baddie and brings some style and menace as the villain. As an action film its boring and shows us a Seagal way past his glory days.

Don't expect anything from this film, with average story and mediocre characters. Steven Seagal (once a cool guy with cool films under his belt) gives us yet another portrait of himself, this time as a retired agent, former Vietnam veteran, blah blah, who is corresponding (pen-pal) with a orphan little girl from Poland and helps her financially. But, when he finds out that orphanage is used as human trafficking, he rushes to Poland and start the incredibly boring scenes of shooting, fighting and everything else in kinda boring and makes-you-sleepy-way. Seagal utters the line "she means everything to me". Is she your daughter? Damn! His character is so caring that he needs to destroy everything in his path for a little girl who he barely knows. Other actors as Robbie Gee and Matt Schulze did a solid job, but Schulze didn't do much with his character, he was only evil and that's it, he is also a expert swordsman and you know what that means when your opponent is Seagal who is an kendo expert... Nothing special to say about this film... except that is pretty boring. Yeah, and Seagal is dubbed by another actor, and that's fuc**ng disgusting! Don't waste your time, watch something more gun and intelligent like... Taken (2008), it's pretty similar, but more, much more better.

Same as all Steven Seagal Movies he gets the bad guy, but why not I like a movie where the bad guys get the crap kicked out of them, too much thinking goes into some of the negative reviewers we are not all into arty camera angles , I like the thought that it was shot in Poland, why should the US have all the bad guys, and as for the acting seen worse soaps that people are glued to most nights of the week, so I give the film a thumbs up I like it simple and brutal.Could watch it again just to see the fight scene where the villain gets his,think I blinked when the killer blow was struck , So I think our Steve still got the talent, and a shame he can't get along with his fellow actors or directors more, think he has some films left in him yet, and I don't like him for his arrogant way he treats other people in real life , but he's still got that certain something.

There are apocryphal stories that in his later operatic performances, tenor Luciano Pavarotti would not only be given stage direction that allowed him to lean on the set but that other members of the ensemble would help him onto the stage in the first place. This is yet another film in the extended later canon of Steven Segal which requires him to look mean or concerned (it's the same look actually) and the director does the rest. And I really mean the rest. This is acting of the Apocalypse Now school of Coppola shooting little more than Brando's head - Segal even has a typing double (yes, that's a stunt typist!) for using a PC. Dross.The rest of the film uses a cast, plot and script bought at a Hollywood dime store. Segal has done better work since the halcyon days of Under Siege, but only in that spoof advert for Orange. 1/10