How sad is this?

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

The acting in this movie is really good.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

This movie should have starred Victor Webster with special guest star Steven Seagal. Victor was is most of the fight scenes and did most of the better acting. Steven did his typical F word for everything and the final battle so he could be the hero. The plot was very lame and I don't think the little girl should have been so OK with all the blood and fighting. It would make more sense that the females were Sasha's wife and daughter, not siblings. That was a weird part of the story. Plus the love interest between Alexander and Lena was just wrong on so many different level and I think she was young enough to be his daughter. Gross!!! All in all this was a great Victor Webster movie. Not sure it should have given top billing to Steven Seagal, but he is the better known actor, so I understand why.

Oh my, the first appearance of Steven Seagal on screen in this picture was so shocking I didn't want to believe it was him. The man has not aged well, and for an action movie star, that's not good. I had to wonder if he would even perform any martial arts moves in the story, but that question was answered fairly early. What actually amazed me while watching this was the fact that twice now in back to back viewings, I ran across a reference to 'Gwai-Lo' - the white ghost aspect of Seagal's character in the story, going by the name of Alexander. Just yesterday I watched an episode of the X-Files titled 'Hell Money', and the same term was used with a slight difference in spelling, although the term 'gui' in that show also referred to a ghost spirit. These types of serendipitous occasions seem to occur frequently enough to qualify as my own version of an X-File, but that's neither here nor there.So now, instead of taking on street thugs, drug pushers or crooked cops, a Seagal film enters the arena of jihadi terrorists and the Russian mob. It's actually not too bad a story after a somewhat clumsy start, with Alexander getting involved with Romanian siblings trapped in a nightmare of repaying their deceased father's debt to a Russian kingpin, who in turn is a lackey for a Chinese crime lord.There are the expected martial arts sequences one tunes in for in a Seagal flick, although quick cutaways during the fight scenes suggest Seagal himself isn't necessarily performing all of them. Victor Webster as Sasha handled himself pretty well in his action scenes, and the gore factor is probably enough to suit most fans of this type of stuff. It's only a very short limb though that I would crawl out on to actually recommend this one. With Seagal way past his prime, one might better relive his past glory as an action star in one of his earlier films.

First, the credits went on so long I almost fell asleep.This movie was so cliché it was laughable, but it was not funny, just sad.They kept using the trick of shooting some bad guy, and they did it a lot, and the guy would fall against the wall where they was already a big splatter of blood, red paint, behind him. In other words cheap effects.Seagal himself, it was hard to figure out exactly what he was or where he was coming from as a character. He spoke in a ghetto dialect so it was kind of hard to figure out if he was supposed to be a brother or what.The military operations they portray were also laughable as you have your spotters and agents on the ground telling control what to do, but control decides to launch a missile anyway, with their men in the target area.Then, in almost everything else this movie is so over to the top violence. In one scene the bad buy gang runs down a mark who they are running a protection racket on, who says he paid, and they literally punch, kick, throw, slam him until if this was a real scene he would be dead, i.e. unable to pay or ever pay.This movie is just unbearable, in fact I think it is kind of psychologically toxic and I would stay away from anyone who says they like this movie. Maybe report them to the FBI because they probably have very violent tendencies and something wring with them psychologically. This movie really has no redeeming qualities, and not even good effects.Seagal's goatee even seems cheap and fake. Very sad.

A Good Man is definitely one of Seagals better efforts of recent times.There is no noticeable dubbing and the action scenes are authentic.Black Dawn having the worst Seagal stunt double of all time. The story is easy to follow with Victor Webster showing some neat moves and taking up a large part of the fight scenes. Mr Chang is the villain of the film and when Seagal and Webster go after him the film clicks into top gear. If don't eat steak don't order it and if you don't like Seagal don't watch it-you know what you are going to get.He is a modern John Wayne who takes out the bad guys-looking forward to his next movie now.I award this movie eight out of ten-non Seagal fans maybe will score it 5.Either way it is a good effort.