not his best but then what does it take to change the essence of a man...?

What does it take..(dramatic pause) what does it take to change the essence of a man? Seagal's humorous foray into directing his own film turns into a 2 hour preachy soapbox about environmentalism and the evils of oil. There's also some rather amusing lines by heavyweights Caine and Billy Bob Thornton. There's even a 10 minute sequence where Seagal visits the astral plane or something. This is self indulgent macho man garbage that goes off the rails from Stevey's ego but it is hilarious trash.

Typical '90s Seagal rubbish, best viewed while busying yourself with something much more important. Like a crossword. The concluding (and still apt) five-minute speech is better than the entire film that precedes it, even if it does feel crazily out of place. Only continued watching to figure out if Caine was occasionally dropping into a bad American accent. I'm still none the wiser.

Overly long, overly preachy and even the fight scenes aren't very interesting. Not sure what Caine was thinking.

If I was in charge of cinema, Segal would be forced to make an environmentalist action film every goddamn year.

Michael Caine, John C. McGinley, R. Lee Ermey all wrapped up in a Steven Seagal movie.

This is inexcusable; long periods of boring filled with nothing, lazy and crappy fight scenes, all to support yet another cartoonishly presented ecological message. The only reason this wasn't a 15 or lower (all-time bad films) is because I liked the finger-breaking scenes and the creepy villain who did it.

So bad that it's fun tow atch

Hey man, what's cookin

The script for this movie is beyond ridicules! Steven Segal is laughable and someone needs to explain why Michael Caine is in this poor excuse for a film?

Sorry environment. If you really want to win the fight against humanity you're going to need Norris on your side. Nice try though.

Variation on "Pocahontas" used to thematise environmental destruction. Riven with contradictions of course, and certainly not good, but the general derision it has received seems less about the quality of the filmmaking (is it really worse than the standard fare for this type of thing?) than resentment at the "vanity" of a star directing himself in a role where he is less hero than saviour and presumes to have a political message worth the audience's attention, à la K. Costner or M. Jackson.

The movie have a real message that every people should think of. Sadly the dialogue and directing is so bad that you can't even have the guilty pleasure of watching this movie. If I remember right Steven did many movies like this. This is probably best of them 'cause he really wants to say something.

Amusingly dumb action cinema is one thing, but Seagal's only directorial work crosses the line by going beyond 'Save the Earth' moralising to becoming a diatribe, making it dubious, hypocritical and obnoxious in its tone, taking an understandable message and shouting it at you until it puts you off. That Seagal drops most of the martial art fighting that made him famous for this tone pretty much damns this film aside from a chuckle or two from seeing a pop bottle as a silencer and such antics.

what the frig was Michael Caine doing in this?

ok

Awful. Pitiful. Abysmal. Mystical BS combined with bad writing. Avoid!

pretty bad movie

A pro-environmental bloodbath, as enlightening as having your neck broken.

Typical

While I appreciate, and honestly respect, that Seagal was certainly ahead of his time promoting environmental consciousness I just can't but laugh at the concept of the film. Seagal's going to promote recycling and waste reduction and he's going to kill thousands and blow up hundreds to prove it.

I hate this movie so much I'm rooting for the villian to pop a cap in Seagal's ass so that the movie will be done with!

Poor.

The film that started Seagal's continuing downward spiral. it's a recipe for disaster with an unbearably pompous script that combines condescending environmentalist pap with lame, overly obscene dialog, cartoon villains, and a completely invinclible "hero", amateurish direction, unnecessarily brutal violence, and career worst performances from all involved (including the usually welcome Caine and McGinley).