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Seagal plays ex-LA cop Roland Salinger, who after a near fatal shooting from his crooked partner, switches careers and moves to work as a bodyguard for the daughter of his old friend Connor Wells. Connor's daughter Nikkita (pretty Liezl Carstens) is the usual rich kid socialite kind who is dating up and coming boxer Mason Silver (Arron Shiver) and at first treats Seagal with contempt and doesn't want her life handled by Seagal, but after a few star struck looks between them, she soon begins to warm to Seagal's charms. Unknown to our hero however, Connor is caught up in some bad business with a bunch of very hombres and when Nikita's not so loveable boyfriend organises a kidnap attempt on Nikita's life - Seagal goes all soft and gentle and snaps bones!

You know the score just by reading the above, but this film is quite above average with a plot that sucks you in, has the usual frenetic action and some good hand to hand fights. There's a sense of energy, a sense of not going through the motions - and the relationship between Nikita and Seagal is well done. It might not be like Seagal's golden period of the late 80s and early 90's, but it's quite fun and engaging in its own right.

Thankfully, there is no unrealistic sex scene or relationship involving Seagal. I was a little worried about seeing that. His hair is perfectly slicked back and black. The story is a little more believable than some of his other ventures. There are several scenes where Seagal is practicing his knife and gun assembly skills, probably to fill out time - that became frustrating. Still a B grade movie, acting could have been better, should have had more fight scenes, maybe even one with Seagal and the cage fighter. I would recommend, just.

This movie begins with two Los Angeles cops named "Trevor Johnson" (Brian Keith Gamble) and "Roland Sallinger" (Steven Seagal) in the process of conducting an unauthorized drug raid in a small apartment room downtown. To their chagrin, upon entering the apartment a fierce gunfight erupts which results in the deaths of all the drug dealers. Immediately after this Trevor and Roland discover a large sum of cash which Trevor suggests they keep for their own. Roland, on the other hand, insists on turning it over to the authorities. This prompts Trevor to shoot Roland several times and--after hiding the stolen loot--calls for backup and naturally blames the drug dealers for Roland's death. To Trevor's surprise, however, as the ambulance is driving off, he learns that his bullets failed to kill Roland. Needless to say, this creates a sense of panic in Trevor who then decides to drive to the hospital in order to finish off Roland once and for all. As luck would have it, however, Roland manages to regain consciousness just as Trevor enters the room and shoots him just in the nick of time. Unfortunately, after extensive therapy and rehabilitation, things don't turn out well for Roland who finds himself medically retired with nothing but a small pension for all of his troubles. It's then that he gets a call from an old friend in San Antonio named "Connor Wells (Steph DuVall) who desperately needs his help protecting his daughter "Nikita Wells (Liezl Carstens) from a criminal organization intent on kidnapping her. However, there is a lot more to this story that Roland doesn't fully realize and this makes his job even more difficult. Now, not wanting to reveal any more, I will just say that I thought that this was one of the better efforts by Steven Seagal as it contained a good plot, decent acting, and a little mystery to top things off. Likewise, having an attractive actress like Liezl Carstens certainly didn't hurt the scenery either. In any case, I enjoyed this particular film and have rated it according. Above average.