Cartels (2016)
6/10
I was not born on a turnip truck
14 January 2018
Warning: Spoilers
Steven Seagal returns to the screen, after being gone for weeks, as DEA officer Harrison interrogating Maj. Tom Jensen (Luke Goss) about an operation that has gone bad. In the opening scene Harrison kills Salazar (Florin Piersic Jr.) no wait...I'm not dead yet...it was a ruse. Salazar is moved to a hotel in Romania and Jensen is part of a special forces team that guards him, because he is going to confess so they can take down...umm okay he is the top dog...plot point that didn't sit well. Well his deputy Bruno (Georges St-Pierre) ...I don't make this stuff up...knows Salazar is not dead and wants him dead.

There is a big fight with plenty of martial arts stuff, shooting, cat fight, and a lumbering Seagal. Luke Goss was needed for some more star power. They also had some Canadian martial artists in the film creating some realistic fights. The film does have a twist (not written by Steven). In flashbacks, Luke Goss tells us what happened and like most motion picture flashbacks, he even remembers all the stuff that happened when he wasn't there. C'mon guys. Pretend your viewers have an IQ higher than a turnip.

Guide: F-word. No sex or nudity.
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