Seagal made some pretty good movies back in the day, but now he seems out of his element and past his prime. It reminds me of John Wayne playing Attila the Hun, no matter what he played he was always John Wayne. Seagal's style of "speak softly and carry a big stick" works in some venues but it has become his trademark and it's getting old. His constant whispering of dialogue seems so out of place with the gangsta slang he uses. He mumbles his words without any emotion whatsoever. I just don't believe the types of characters he portrays would be so soft spoken and philosophical. He really needs to find a script that is written just for him and his style of acting. The action, when available, are his typical Aikido moves. The script is sort of a rehash and compilation of other similar action movies. Nothing new or striking. It's a movie you could turn off halfway through and forget about.
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johnott186427 September 2016
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fossicle12 April 2017Actually I would give this a 5.5.
Obviously one needs to separate his older movies to screen vs direct to media as is his MO for some years.
This particular movie, has some good comments and insights from the main character which raises the rating. It is not over indulgent in violence, and has minimal sex. It is just plain entertaining.
If you just want to enjoy a movie and relax without being hyper-critical, End of a Gun is a good movie to watch.
I sure wish he would lose some weight and get a better hairpiece. It appears he and Travolta go to the same wig shop. -
namashi_115 November 2016There was a time when Steven Seagal could set the box-office on fire & leave the action-movie fans to ripples. I was & still remain a fan of this man, despite his career having declined & his appearances strictly seen on direct-to-DVD films.
And 'End of a Gun', his 5th film in this busy year, is a mediocre film, that doesn't even improve as it progresses. Its got a fairly decent plot, but it makes almost nothing out of it.
'End of a Gun' Synopsis: A former federal agent crosses paths with a drug kingpin's enforcer after he saves a woman from danger.
Keoni Waxman's Writing & Direction disappoints. Waxman has made many movies with Seagal, but this time he stumbles. Of the cast, Seagal delivers adequately. Jade Ewen looks hot & performs ordinarily. But its Ovidiu Niculescu, who's splendid as Seagal's old friend & is easily the best thing about the film.
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Chance_Boudreaux1912 March 2018This film is total and utter garbage. There is not a single redeeming quality. Steven Seagal used to have a charisma and a personality despite his lack of acting skill in the 80s and 90s. He made some very entertaining movies during that era. The reason I decided to watch this is because I stumbled on an article where someone has seen all 8 movies Steven has released in 2016. The fact that he released 8 movies should tell you all about the quality of them but the reviewer said this one was the best of the bunch and actually watchable. Well, if this one is the best then I dread to think what the others are like. Safe to say that I am not going to watch anymore of his "films". He looks more bored than ever, as if he has narcolepsy and will fall asleep at any moment, his aikido moves are clearly done by a stunt double because he couldn't even be bothered to do the one thing you'd expect him to get right. This is without a doubt, unquestionably the movie that I dislike the most out of over a thousand movies that I have seen. So kudos for that Steve, at least I won't forget this although I wish I could.
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Junebug230572 October 2016Of all the former action stars (Van Damme, Lundgren, Schwarzenegger) Steven Seagal has had the most pathetic decline. While it is true that Lundgrens movies are filmed at a lower budget, at least Lundgren is in shape and is actually emotionally present in his movies.
Seagal hasn't given a f*** about his movies in the past 15 years. And this one is no different. There are few fight scenes, and the few there are, are so horrible and cheap. Seagal just touches their arms and they fall down. Not even his body double does much movements this time. The shoot outs are slow and just look awkward. Seagal just mainly sits down in this movie and mumbles something about honor, the past and friendships.
The movie has a weak attempt at trying to emulate a heist movie, but it fails miserably. The acting from the supporting cast is standard Romanian fare and the female lead is nothing special, and her story arc is garbage, she for no reason does a complete break of her characters logic at the end of the movie.
For some reason there are scenes with a head boss talking on the phone. You never see his face, and his voice is clearly dubbed over. They never return to this character, and it makes no sense whatsoever to have him in this film.
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marcelhansen-2937918 October 2016No more words needed.. In the early days I was a big fan of Steven Seagal. With good acting, great action flicks and of course better actors and directors. Nowadays in his new movies we see stand inns, an incredible over sized Steven Seagal and the worst acting I have ever seen in years. Not only from Mr. Seagal, but also from the entire cast. The movies are made cheaper and cheaper, with this time extreme bad makeup and also special effects (!). It's getting worse by every movie. Steven, come on ! Please get in shape, take an example to Chuck Norris, Jean Claude van Damme and Dolf Lungren, and show us what we would see from you, like in the early years!
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kevdor21 September 20185 minutes into the movie I was already facepalming myself to death
The philisophical Seagal philosophing about life while being his typical stoic shallow action hero at the same time just doesnt fit
Seagal trying too hard to use street slang, saying "man" at the end of every sentence ,even using it on a freaking women.. cringy!
The supporting girl watching her boyfriend getting murdered by Seagal because apparently he interfered in the fight, and not only is she not traumatised about the incident but shes hapy and smiling and flirting with Seagal the next day, what the hell was that?
the "french" extras barely speaking a word of french because they have a horrible accent when they do, you're telling me they could find a handful of french actors in France or wherever this was filmed?
The guy who gets his throat cut at the beginning feeding straight lines to someone standing in front of him with a knife about slicing his throat, so predictable and poorly written
the mob boss that is the most goofy looking villain I've ever seen, with ridiculous hair and voice that isnt synched
the rest of the movie is a pseudo-heist movie with a cop who somehow has no compunction about stealing mob money, as if sudddenly two wrongs make a right and thats ok in his ethic code -
rotex2921 December 2016Where did the star of "Above The Law" go? Where is that svelte, femur snapping dude who had us waiting for the next villain to tell him to go to hell? Well, long gone, I guess. An overweight caricature of Steven Segal appears to be starring in a genre where he is no longer in his element. The whispering, slang using ladies man, who could kick the eyes out of a snake at sixty paces, is no more. Instead, we're faced with something we cannot recognize, a man who is attempting to woo us with action hero status, but not quite getting there. His "gangsta" lingo and attitude with the French police (who do not have French accents, curiously) who are investigating his killing of a mobster in a parking lot, just isn't making the grade. We see something that looks so ridiculous and out of place, it causes us to allow the story-line to wisp about in thin air, and we cannot seem to catch it. With a twenty-something cutie (he's rescued from a violent boyfriend) coming on to a bloated, sixty-four year old in Segal, its difficult for any viewer to believe in the story, even those of us who are rooting for the old "Nikko" to jump out at any time. Even in the over- choreographed and under-whelming fight scenes, which quite frankly, have us scratching our heads in disbelief, we come to realize how bad this film is, and how much we long for the Steven Segal of old.
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TheLittleSongbird19 September 2018Steven Seagal has done some good, or at least watchable, films. Particularly 'Under Siege'. He has also done a lot of mediocre and less films, indicative of laziness and that Seagal was well past his sell by date, and a good deal of them are even very bad.
'End of a Gun' is one of the very bad ones, though not 'Contract to Kill' awful, almost anything is better than that. It is not one of Seagal's worst, the scenery has some atmosphere but that's hardly an endorsement. Did not expect much, but watched it because Seagal has shown signs that he can be halfway decent and as said not all his films are bad. Also do appreciate the action genre and there are good films out there in the genre, classics even. 'End of a Gun' is far from that, more closer to a waste of time that shows little signs of trying.
Seagal himself gives another lazy and wooden performance that shows that he was not interested and wanted to be somewhere else. His reading-from-an-autocue-like and robotic line delivery in particular betrays that. The rest of the cast are just as poor though in all fairness have little to work with and over-compensate.
The characters are ones we know very little about and don't care what happens to happen, so unengaging and one-dimensional they are. The dialogue is risible, with a lot of cheesiness, awkwardness and far too much talk delivered with little emotion or momentum and bordering on the near-incomprehensible.
Its excessively talky nature affects severely the pacing, which never comes to life. There is no urgency, let alone tension, intrigue or suspense. The action doesn't feature enough in comparison and suffer from pedestrian choreography and laughably bad editing. The story is by-the-numbers, dull and not always easy to follow.
Direction is flat and ill-at ease, while the sound/soundtrack are one-note and obvious as well as poorly recorded and the whole film looks cheap. And it's not just the editing, the slapdash effects and drab photography also.
Overall, a mess in almost every way. 2/10 Bethany Cox -
mjp7813 July 2019The weirdest film I've ever seen. Complete idiocy.
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richsonrichardson27 September 2020And let me finish by saying that the film centres around a mall blob (like myself, and you if I'm honest) researching the pension legends of the seventh son and the moon man chronicles. Very cliché if I'm honest, which I am, as you saw in the previous sentence.
I was surprised to see Steven bonjour Seagal imbibing thousands of traditional parisian onion prison crystals, a subtle nod to his Serbian roots. This initiates the almost imperceptibly subtle subtext of the rest of his life.
Marky Zuk, a frequent collaborator in the glue-gun skump travelator stories, is once again found stealing the president's carpal tunnel strategies, a subtle nod to the Facebroom's infamous tomato sauce heist scandal delivery monster, from which much of Seagal's life revolves around. Even to this day!
Our boy the Gazz Toblerone puts in a great performance as curator of the most controversial museum in the parish, that's right::: you heard me correct this time. OUDOUR OF AVOCADOS MUSEUM. Really thrilling.
Some people say the 5 hour dog kicking scene was too long, lasting a record 16 hours, the second longest in the parish. A bit too short I think but you can see what they were trying to do, very tricky to squeeze such art into a 20 parsec filmograph generator.
And didn't I see Steven Seacreature's 30 hour year old daughter give birth to the bipedal eye monster machine?! Yes, I did see that, it was good (not the best though if I'm honest). This was a subtle nod to Steven Seagoblin's daughter collection, which is currently on loan to the Louvre in South South East Hull-on-WildThornberries.
But let me be sincere for a moment. The film has one of the most realistic redigestive phlebotomy sequences ever disseminated by a subtle nod monster official.
Mr. Vargas and the Asian cowboy patrol were airlifted in to perform the lifesaving biscuit surgery to save Steven Seasection's life in real life! A subtle nod to his large Asian cowboy son, who was just big enough to feed all of his daughters at the end of the film. A subtle subtle nod indeed. Perhaps the subtlest, but I'll leave you to agree with me on that.
I would write more about this but the bus driver is threatening to lick my possessions. But to summarise:
Pros:- Condiments
- Daughter to daughter cleaning service (on wheels)
- Mr. Vargas head Baker
- Kick dog not his dog
- Pros and cons
Cons:- OUDOUR OF AVOCADO'S MUSEUM (too realistic for me thank you)
- Biped eye creature (not quite enough eyes)
- Daughter 30 hours old (chicken nugget syndrome)
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realhiphop24 September 2016You cant say that there is ever a drought when it comes to Seagal. Unlike JCVD, Stallone or Arnold who are a little more selective in the movies they make and we are lucky to get 1 or 2 movies a year from the action heroes of yesterday, Seagal has had 3 releases in the past month and i think 4 or 5 this year. The problem with such a high output of product is the standard isn't very high. Biggest complaints with Seagal is that he is marketed and billed as the star of the movie and then he ends up in the movie for a total running time of 20 or 30 minutes (if we are lucky), and even then he is usually heavily doubled with the body and voice. I never understood this lack of quality control or respect for his fans to put out something so substandard. But in recent years we have occasionally got a decent one that reminds us that if Seagal is in the hands of a capable director, he can still put out a decent action film. Unlike the releases this year Sniper, Code of Honour, Asian Connection, Killing Salazar & The Perfect Weapon (Both in the last week), Seagal is actually the lead, i would say he is in at least 70 minutes of the 90 minute running time and there is minimal dubbing. He seemed interested in the movie, it was set in Paris and he gets a couple of decent fights (even if the doubles are still present). A couple of smart one liner jokes, this was a decent effort and would say, skip his other 6 releases this year (particularly Killing Salazar and Sniper) and support this one with a purchase. Keoni Waxman is a DTV director that knows how to shoot action, he knows how to get the best out of Seagal. Seagal should make every movie with him. As a DTV release I would say 7/10... compared to every other Seagal movie released in the past 12-15 months, this one is definitely the best one.
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rjaddou10 November 2018Segal must have accumulated thousands of air miles traveling to Romania for his films, and worse, pretending it is somewhere in the USA ! With minimal action and less so from our hero ... this has become a predictable formula for many of his BORING TV-films. Throw in some heavy-looking Romanian dubbed heavies, and a few semi-naked starlets ... and you are almost there ! A complete waste of time from an overweight has-been who can hardly string a couple of words together ...
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kaefab4 December 2016Aging is part of everyone, gray hair, a bit of weight gain and so on, but Steven instead of embracing it simply dies is hair black and is awful fu Manchu beard black.
This is what makes me laugh the most and keep me coming back for is movies but now i have learned i only watch the trailer.
I used to be so excited back in the days when a Siegel or Van damme movie came out because they where good movies.
But now its always the same thing, Ex special this ex special that, the guy is almost 70y old and still playing the total bad a$$ in is movie a role that he is long done for.
I can understand that everyone as to make a living, but this is ridiculous at best.
This movie is no different then the ones he been make for the last 10 15 years he is an ex military that save a women, and she cons him into stealing money from bad people, then the bad people comeback to get the money WOW what a borefest. -
robbieadams196913 December 2016Just another rinse and repeat "action" movie from Seagal. Same type of plot as all the rest of his straight to video movies filmed overseas. Ex-CIA agent this or Ex-Federal Agent that or Ex-DEA agent for good measures. Obviously he needs the money for more fried tofu and bacon as it's plainly clear that he has given up and continues to make these horrific movies. It's time he retires because it's just painful to watch this overweight washed up actor wearing the same tired tinted glasses and black suits to hide his lard as he tries to lift his fat legs to make a kick. However, rest assured expect to see at least 7 to 25 other movies in 2017 from Seagal with the same plot. Same black suit to hide his fat and those same cheesy glasses he wears as if it's going to make him look thinner and more badass. More like make him look like a fat ass. Avoid this movie at all costs.
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adabsiz27 December 2019For this masterpiece (written incidentally by an ex-fed called Hustmyre !) there were 15 actors and 15 producers ... plus 11 sound crew and 16 stunt persons !! And apart from a stock shot of the Eiffel Tower and a few French car number plates, the whole sad effort was totally filmed in Hollywoodcu, a suburb of Bucharest ! For some unknown reason, the English heroine always wears flimsy clothes showing vast areas of her mammary glands, while everyone else, including our hero, is in jackets and coats ! Please don't waste your time over this pathetic video film . If there were "minus" stars ... I would have obliged !
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zndman3 December 2016Oh yes, he did it again. Steven Seagal hits us with yet another one of his low budget, bad acting, mediocre movies. I keep watching his movies hoping for more from one movie to another, but i keep getting disappointed. Steven Seagal has the emotional acting of a wooden log while keeps throwing cliché phrases throughout the movie, the rest of the cast is acting fairly plain and the guy playing Vargas might not have even been acting at all.
End Of A Gun was shot entirely in Romania, as they say in the credits at the end, although the action is supposed to happen in France, which takes me to the first goof: at the end, when Seagal drives "into the sunset", you can see the license plates of his Porsche back/front are different. The second goof: Seagal is talking with Jean, the french detective about Vargas and the detective says that Vargas is an evil man hiding with the Silanoa cartel (instead of Sinaloa) - i mean common ... Silanoa ?! its not like the cartel is not internationally known.
All in all, this was a pretty bad movie and a waste of time as expected. I wouldn't recommend this if you're not a hardcore Steven Seagal fan. -
brett-7626029 March 2022If you're wanting to see sensei in a brand new role or character this ain't it. It's the same voice, same flippy flip wrist throw garbage and same old constipational look you have grown up with. Man this was not good... we all expect his movies to be oscar caliber but this one fell just a tick short. Every time he's on the screen It's like he's trying to push a turd out or something I don't know. I don't know why I keep watching his movies but I do. I was once a huge fan but I think that ship has sailed. Cmon sensei try a comedy or a western. But no more of this stuff please... time to do a space movie maybe. Yeah how about a retired covert cia agent that goes rogue and goes to space and becomes a cowboy. Yeah that's the ticket...
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slightlymad2218 November 2019Continuing my plan to watch every Steven Seagal movie in order I just watched The End Of A Gun (2016)
Another turkey from Seagal. The story was a mess and some stuff here made zero sense.
Seagal isn't dubbed this time, and I wish he had been!! He mumbles his way through the movie, you can barely comprehend what he is saying and he displays zero personality. The fight scenes as are mostly done with doubles and aren't impressive in any way making it all feel boring.
The babe this time is former Sugababe Jade Ewen.
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amanrajabali21 July 2021No story. No screenplay. No direction. No acting. Zilch in all departments.
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First of all. We ALL know Seagal is putting out movies like there is a movie store atm behind him. But still, if you give this movie a shot, and think about it, its actually not that bad!
Seagal is looking good for his age, he had his special "Seagal" charm and attitude. Staying all calm. Bjt this movie delivers some fun jokes and lines from time to time.
His cameo, an old cop does a great job as supporting actor. The main villain, oh man he is PERFECT for the role! He doesnt over act in any way, he had his special character going, the settings are all bright and nice, making you wanna be there. The movie does capture the beauty of Paris.
The special effects are NOT bad as for in example "Code of Honor". No computer animated crap, real explosions, great blood effects and also the way the movie is shot gombined with the music, makes it work fine.
The female lead is OK. She aint bad, but she aint particulary good actress either. But she works as a sneaky damn character ripping people off.
The thing that made me want to see more and actually get interested, was the scene where rhe main bad guy suddenly slit a guys throat like a complete psychopath. I didnt really expect it so it caught me off guard. Good entrance for him!
Also i loved the ending scene, especially the knife fight. I mean COME ON! We just got a flashback to the good old knifewielding scene of Under Siege 1 when Casey Ryback met Tommy Lee Jones in a knife fight. THANKS!
The movie overall could have had more tempo and aldo the last scene where all characters were presented with the actors names, if I was in charge I would freeze the pictures on the characters, making it a "drawing" and place the name besides it. It would look better, be odd and add a more "special touch" to the whole movie experience.
Mr Seagal, good job overall! I liked it and it didnt dissapoint me as perhaps Code Of Honor and Flight Of Fury and others did.
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elpatoletsplays25 September 2016It's been nearly 30 years since Seagal made his debut in Above the Law and it's starting to show - Steven's now at the ripe old age of 64. Retirement age, and ironically enough in his latest DTV movie End of a Gun he plays a retired DEA agent - perhaps he's finally accepting his old age?
Anyway, if you're looking at this you should probably know what to expect by Seagal's DTV movies by now. And this movie does exactly that - Seagal wanders himself into trouble with some dangerous criminals, taking no prisoners as he mumbles his way through his lines and flies his fists around to give the bad guys a beating.
Once again, this is another Seagal movie set in Europe, with Paris the setting this time. He seems to have a bit of an obsession with it, although there is noticeably less focus on ogling the local women than there is in his other intercontinental efforts.
The main highlight for me was probably the performance of Jade Ewen - she gave a solid performance in her role as the sneaky but sexy accomplice of Seagal. She's most famous in Britain as the Eurovision entry a number of years ago and a brief spell with the Sugababes...money must be really tight if she's having to flirt with a pension-age Steven Seagal on screen.
Other than that, it's what you've come to expect. The villain is pretty forgettable and generic (and there's another "villain" who the makers seem to forget about by the end of the film?). A couple of bits where Seagal is dubbed, but it's very minor. Keoni Waxman directs, making this his umpteenth collaboration with Seagal - but his projects with Seagal are usually pretty passable DTV efforts, and the trend doesn't change here. The running time is a fairly slim 86 minutes, which I prefer for these kinds of films - all killer, no filler. Make the rides brief and enjoyable.
Seagal has made plenty of poor DTV movies but this isn't one of them - it's one of his better efforts in recent time. Check it out if you're a fan. -
destroyerwod22 January 2017So in the latest years with Steven Seagal its been more miss than hits. But sometimes there is a movie that come out which entertain me enough to consider it a good time. Don't get me wrong, i don't expect an Hollywood production out of his movies, but in the direct to video action genre sometimes they do the job. Not this one...
Keoni Waxman directed the pretty good Force of Execution, which had Seagal more as a support character. I enjoyed that one so i tough who knows this one may also be good. But its not the case.
There is very few fights, and when there is the camera angles are terrible making it obvious its a Seagal body double for the bare minimum moves. The plot is pretty generic even tough OK, but the characters have nothing interesting. Seagal once again play an ex agent/soldier and the bad guys are generic as they can be. There is a couple gun fights which are also rather uninspired.
The reality is when you watch a Seagal, one of the thing that is kinda fun is when the bad guys underestimate him, even tough he appear 2 feet taller than them, and he get out some one liners as he kick there ass. Not much of that in this.
In any case unless you are a total Seagal must watch kinda guy, you can definitely skip this one. Its not atrocious or anything, its just boring... -
zardoz-1313 December 2016Action hero Steven Seagal seems to make nothing but abominable, low-budget thrillers. Occasionally, he churns out a decent one, but nothing comparable to he did when he was slim and trim during his theatrical release days back in the 1980s and the 1990s. Since those halcyon days, he has made several potboilers with director Keoni Waxman. "End of a Gun" is their latest collaboration, and Seagal doesn't skulk around the edges on this movie. Indeed, he stars as the indestructible protagonist, a former DEA Agent named Michael Decker who got booted out of the agency for doing things his way. As this yarn unfolds, our tall, imposing hero intervenes when he spots a man mistreating his stripper girlfriend in a parking lot one evening. Like most Seagal fights, this one doesn't last long, and the arrogant Ronnie (Andrei Ciopec) makes the mistake of brandishing an automatic pistol. Predictably, Decker decks him with a minimum of shots. The Paris police confiscate Decker's favorite pistol, but his old pal Jean (Ovidiu Niculescu) doesn't arrest him. The beautiful lady, Lisa Durant (television actress Jade Ewen), that Decker rescued has an idea. She suggests Decker team up with her and the appropriate all of Ronnie's loot. The catch is that small fortune is locked up in the trunk of Ronnie's car, and the vehicle is parked in the police impound garage. Instead of taking ten percent, Decker decides to cut himself in for half of the loot. Meanwhile, Decker's chief adversary Gage (Florin Piersic Jr. of "Youth Without Youth") assembles a couple of gunmen, and they track Lisa down to the less than fashionable motel where Decker left her. The bullets fly, and Decker ices Gage's two henchmen without breaking a sweat. Nevertheless, Cage survives and manages to escape with Lisa. Gage's boss Vargas isn't pleased with his henchman's lack of progress in retrieving his money. Lisa convinces Gage to let her live so she can bargain with Decker. They set up a rendezvous to make a swap--the rest of the dough for Lisa--but she isn't fooling Decker. Decker relies on his Parisian friend to back him up. Mind you, Jean doesn't get out of all the gunfire without catching a slug for Decker. Unfortunately, all these shenanigans lack artistry, and Waxman lenses everything like the B-movie that it amounts to just to get it in the can and get on to the next picture. Waxman and co-scenarist Chuck Hustmyre generate nothing in the way of either suspense or momentum because the villains never properly challenge our hero. As the femme fatale, shapely Jade Ewen looks gorgeous, but she doesn't shed a stitch. Of course, she doesn't fool anybody either. Seagal talks a lot about honor in his gravelly voice. "End of a Gun" isn't anything to shout about, but it is better than the typical straight-to-video shoot'em up.
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mrmac-425617 June 2021I watched this movie tonight because I had nothing else to do. It was just Seagal playing the same character that he has played in so many below par movies. I had to turn up the volume on my tv set just to hear what he was saying to the cardboard villains. He needs to lose 70 pounds but, at 69, he should retire and leave us with memories of his younger days as an action man.