Mercenary For Justice Director: Don E FauntLeRoy Writer: Brad Copeland
Starring: Steven Seagal, Jacque Line Lord, Roger Guenver Genre: Action/adventure Rating: R - violence and language Running Time: 91 minutes Seef Cineplex I at 12.45pm, 3pm, 5.15pm, 7.30pm, 9.45pm and 12.00 MN.
Steven Seagal is back doing his own fight scenes, minimal dialogue dubbing and the odd flash of his personality comes through. The last third of the movie is taken up with all action as Seagal goes to the main villain’s hideout. The movie opens with a well-executed all-action setup with helicopters and tanks by Seagal movie standards, continues the action sequences all throughout the movie with a nice bank heist set piece half way through but does stretch believability a little. However, Mercenary For Justices biggest draw back is again like most of Seagal’s movies, the script. I have no idea why or what was going on for the opening 20 minutes of this movie. We have Seagal and his team of mercs caught in a big firefight then another team of mercs captures the French ambassador and his family and appears to be bringing them back to Seagal. Then the merc team who captured the French ambassador blows him up along with his family? This merc team appears to be working with Seagal? Seagal’s buddy gets killed and Seagal calls the helicopter backup to pick them all up. Why didn’t he call it earlier? Once Seagal is back from his mission his buddy’s family is kidnapped by the movies main villain and they force Seagal to take a mission for them. This is where the movie begins correctly for me as I have no clue what all the previous stuff was about other than for Seagal’s buddy to get killed? Other than this Mercenary For Justice is what Seagal fans have been demanding. – Ollie