The artwork for this film made me interested. I mean here we
have a picture of not just famed boxing legend Mike Tyson to look at but action
star Steven Segal as well. A movie with the pair in it? Potentially facing off
against one another? Sign me up!
The movie arrives, I pop it in the machine and low and
behold within the first 20 minutes or so the clash takes place. And…that’s
about it. A few minutes of the two going at it mano a mano and then we’re left
with the rest of the movie to deal with. And it’s bad. Really bad.
I went back after watching about half of the film and read
some reviews others had posted elsewhere. Had I done so prior to starting the
film I might never have watched it. Everything stated in those reviews ended up
being dead on.
The film has an extremely convoluted plot going here. It
takes place in some small African country in the middle of trying to figure out
which cell phone company to handle the needs of that country. Yes, it’s like a
movie about ATT and Verizon battling it out with as much excitement as that
brings to mind. At the same time Tyson is the last member of his tribe trying
to take over the country. Segal is a bar owning dealer of weapons and warriors.
Both have perhaps the least amount of screen time among the main cast members.
I could go into the different factions trying to this
contract that comes down to a Chinese group and a French one but honestly their
tech talk became so boring that I found myself just trying to stay awake and watch
the movie. On top of that they use of subtitles for foreign films is nothing
new to me and I normally have no problem with it. But in this case the dialogue
was so fast and the subtitles so miniature that I had to literally sit a few
feet from the screen just to read them.
On the plus side the film is very well shot and edited.
Kudos to those involved on that end. And the promised though short lived fight
between Tyson and Segal was fun to watch if over the top. Punching through
pillars, kicking tables in half and nearly missing one another throughout the
fight was outrageous fun. But other than that the movie fell flat.
I honestly can’t recommend this movie. I mean if it shows up
on cable or if you have a service that shows it sure, watch it for that fight
sequence. But then find something more interesting to do like clean out belly
button lint.
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