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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.

Actually 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.

There 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.

On the whole, 'End of a Gun' is a missed opportunity.

This 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.

No 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!

Where 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.

Steven 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

If 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...

And 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)

You 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.

The weirdest film I've ever seen. Complete idiocy.

Segal 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 ...

Aging 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.

Just 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.

For 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 !

Continuing 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.

Overall, I'm already bored talking about the film.

No story. No screenplay. No direction. No acting. Zilch in all departments.

Extremely amateurish.

It'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.

So 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...