Mercenary for Justice (2006)

• Year: 2006
• Released: 25 Apr 2006
• Country: Aruba, USA, South Africa
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0427528/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mercenary_for_justice
• Available in: 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
• Runtime: 91 min
• Writer: Steven Collins
• Director: Don E. FauntLeRoy
• Cast: Steven Seagal, Jacqueline Lord, Roger Guenveur Smith, Luke Goss
• Keywords: martial arts, kidnapping, spy, action hero, shootout,

	4.0/10
	27% – Audience

Mercenary for Justice Storyline

Mercenary John Seeger is one of the best in the business. John and his crew are battling some French soldiers on the French-controlled Galmoral Island in Southern Africa as they’re trying to rescue the French Ambassador — there’s a coup going on. John gets angry when some of his soldiers unload their machine guns into the Ambassador and his family, blowing the mission and getting his best friend Radio Jones killed. John goes back to the U.S.A. and goes to the home of Radio’s wife Shondra, tells her the news, and then promises her that he’ll take care of her and her son Eddie. But shortly after he makes that vow, Shondra and Eddie get kidnapped. They were kidnapped by a CIA faction led by CIA dirty deeds man John Dresham and his boss, CIA Black Ops producer Anthony Chapel, who want to force John into doing a mission for them. Kamal Dasan, the son of prominent gun runner Ahmet Dasan, has been arrested and thrown into the Randveld Prison outside of Cape Town, South Africa, and Chapel tells John that John must go there and break Kamal out of prison if John wants to see Shondra and Eddie alive again. What they don’t tell John is that there’s an ulterior motive at work, and that they intend to use John as a patsy in their plan to rip off a highly secured African bank, and they don’t care who gets killed in the process. And it turns out that the whole thing on Galmoral Island was a screw-job engineered by Dresham and Chapel. After John and his crew break Kamal out and stop the robbery at the bank, John sets out to rescue Shondra and Eddie from Dresham and Chapel.

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Another terrible low budget Seagal effort, will he ever make a decent flick again?

Mercenary for Justice starts as corrupt CIA agent John Dresham (Luke Goss) & all round bad guy Anthony Chapel (Roger Guenveur Smith) arrange the kidnapping of the French Ambassador in a remote African island using hard as nails Gulf war veteran John Seeger (co-executive producer & uncredited co-writer Steven Seagal) & some of his mates as cover, plausible deniability & all that apparently. John isn’t happy when he learns the truth & is even less happy when his best mate Radio Jones (Zaa Nkweta) is killed during the fighting. Back in the US & John promises to look after Radio’s widow Shondra (Faye Peters) & young son Eddie (Tumi Mogoje) but Chapel is hired by billionaire Greek Arab arms dealer Ahmet Dasan (Peter Butler) to break is son out of prison & kidnaps both Shondra & Eddie in order to force Seeger to carry out the break. Seeger isn’t happy & his mood doesn’t improve & sets out to gain revenge on those who double crossed him & are threatening the lives of his friends family…

This Arubian, American & South African co-production was directed by Don E. FauntLeRoy who is also credited as cinematographer Mercenary for Justice was the second of three awful straight-to-video/DVD action flicks he made with Seagal (the other’s being Today You Die (2005) & Urban Justice (2007) which are just as bad) & at this stage I seriously doubt whether Seagal will ever make a decent action film again, entertaining action fare such as Hard to Kill (1990), Marked for Death (1990), Out for Justice (1991) & the two Under Siege (1992, 1995) films seem a distant memory from a very long time ago. One of the main problems with Mercenary for Justice in my opinion is that it’s insanely complicated & tries to be too clever, there are all sorts of vague double crosses & ulterior motives & supposed twists & turns that are just so contrived & convoluted that they make little sense & are so badly written & presented end up making the whole film feel like a complete unfocused mess. No-ones motives are ever fully revealed, I still don’t really know what that CIA guy played by Luke Goss is all about, why were Seagal & his men fighting at the start, who was Chapel & why did he hire people he couldn’t control & the whole thing is just a mess that jumps around from scene to scene trying to be clever but it’s so poorly put together it’s annoyingly confusing. Even though it only lasts for about an hour & a half it feels much, much longer which is never a good sign, the dialogue is terrible, the character’s are not fleshed out & their motives are never made clear & there isn’t even much action in it which is the final nail in it’s coffin really as far as I am concerned.

These days Seagal is fat, you can see it & he’s out of shape & not that menacing & he looks sluggish, slow & unconvincing in the action scenes. There are one or two fights which are quite violent but for the most part he leaves the action to other people & is it any coincidence that one of the other main character’s is fatter than he is? I am sure that guy Bulldog is there to make sure Seagal isn’t the fattest person on screen during the action! During the old days Seagal’s action scenes were based around brutal martial arts violence & amusing one-liners, these days he can barely walk yet alone pull those moves off. There are a few explosions, a few shoot-outs & some fights but nothing special or that memorable.

According to the IMDb this had a budget of about $15,000,000 which I don’t believe for a second, there is no way this cheap looking film cost that much. Apparently shot in Bulgaria & South Africa. The acting sucks, Seagal minus pony tail mumbles his way through the film as usual while Luke Goss has managed to put this turkey behind him having appeared in the recent Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008).

Mercenary for Justice is another terrible low budget shot in Eastern Europe action flick with Seagal who really should either lose some weight or call it a day & realise that he can’t make these action films anymore. Not good.

Seagal fans rejoice? Ahhh, not quite, but a step in the right direction

If you’ve kept up with Seagal’s direct-to-video career (as I diligently have) “Mercenary for Justice” is certainly a step in the right direction. No, it’s not great movie, but it’s a whole lot better than most of his previous direct-to-video efforts. First and foremost the cinematography is really well done. This movie looks great and feels “bigger” than most of Seagal’s previous direct to video movies. Second, although there’s more gun-play than Aikido, Seagal performs in all his own action sequences (no stunt/body doubles) and the fight choreography is relatively classic Seagal (arm and wrist twisting / body tossing). Third, Seagal’s voice doesn’t appear to be dubbed at any point during the movie (as it’s been in several of his other releases). What’s bad is the usual: muddled story, poor supporting cast, some of the dialogue. The first 20 minutes of the movie lack a real cohesive setup / story (in fact, beside a brief freeze frame / still, Seagal doesn’t appear for the first 11 minutes or so). The opening also suffers from the classic low budget, “shooting a stunt from multiple angles – then intermittently cutting those different shots of the same stunt into the movie trying to sell it as a new event each time” trick. Oh well. Bottom line: If you’ve kept up with Seagal this far in his career you won’t be disappointed with “Mercenary for Justice.” Favorite Seagal theatrical release: Out For Justice / Favorite Seagal direct-to-video release (as of 04/19/06): Belly of the Beast

More Shooting Than Martial Arts

I liked Seagal…. In his prime. A long time ago, (Okay, 1989) Steven Seagal was the master of the martial arts, A man who speaks little, but makes up for it in kicking ass… and he was lean and mean. Nowadays, he’s fat, he can barely talk above a whisper, and he just doesn’t care. But he keeps churnin’ out the junk.

And I keep falling victim to it. For Seagal DTV standards, (does that even make sense?) it isn’t as bad as “Submerged” , but it’s not as good as “Belly Of The Beast”.

The plot: John Seeger (you know who…) is an ex-mercenary, CIA, FBI dude, who has to break into a prison, while orchestrating a bank robbery. Then Seeger shoots lots of people. That’s about it.

What’s with the three word titles? Enough already. I guess people don’t think it’s a Seagal flick without a three word title. The title doesn’t even make sense. A mercenary works for money and he has no soul, he doesn’t do it for justice.

The only actors good in this is Roger Guenveur Smith as the villain Mr. Chapel and Luke Goss as Dresham. But even they were coasting.

If you want a good Seagal flick, go with “Out For Justice” instead.

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