When a contract killer (Steven Seagal) encounters a girl on the run from a mob boss (Vinnie Jones) with powerful political ties, he is torn between protecting the girl, and remaining loyal to the government agency that hired him for the mission. Absolution is kind of a welcome call back to some of Seagal's better action movies and it's true this film is decent and has some good action sequences and fight scenes, the plot was interesting and the acting was ok. In the 90's Seagal made some great films but once 2000 hit he started making dumpstair fire after dumpstair fire so it's nice to see a movie with him that is actually decent and has an interesting story and good action. (6/10)

As for how Segel Movies have went in the past he did start with some amazing movies then hit a rough patch. It is obvious that with this movie he is back to the classic 80'2 early 90's action. Most forget that he doesn't practice kung fu or Karate Though he does hold a black belt or equivalent in four different martial arts forms. In his movies he uses a version of Aikido to disable or kill his attackers. It is not the slow snappy fight stuff you see in most martial arts movies. He never kicks above the waist, never attacks first he uses the attackers energy against themselves. Often manipulating joints and breaking bones. Now for the Movie, he does play a Mercenary that was part of a failed mission that did not result in the kill or capture of its primary target in the beginning. Does the movie build from there, yes it has a slow story arch and then its straight into the Segel action of the past. Is the plot horrible, no its actually pretty decent and there's no mumbling his lines are clear. Over all the dialogue didn't make me want to tear my ears off. The fight scenes are actually pretty good, He shows a short Katana in a wooden sheath and tells that its his preferred method of killing. I did see someone else mention that it looked like garbage and someone skipped on buying a better prop, also the same person had no idea what a Raptor Drone looked like with Hellfire Missiles as they showed one in the beginning of the movie. Obviously the design of the sword is for tactical field craft as you saw earlier in the beginning of the movie when he takes out a sentry it was tucked under his KIT that he was wearing. Overall this movie was hands down one of the best movies I have seen him in over the last five years. Great job, now off to finish the Trilogy.

When a contract killer encounters a girl on the run from a psychotic, cockney, ex-footballer cum actor mob boss, with powerful political ties, he is torn between protecting the girl, and remaining loyal to the government agency that hired him for the mission......Seagals movie career of late seems to be like the mountain setting on your generic treadmill. Up, down, up, down, and so on.After his last movie, A Good Man, it seemed that Seagal started to give a damn about his audience again, but just like any old friend you haven't seen in years, he goes and let's you down again.And I'm talking letting you down in the way he did back in 2006 with the slew of movies he made for Sony. This is on the same level as Attack Force, Flight Of Fury, and Against The Dark. But instead of being shocked into just how awful those movies were, you just roll your eyes and think to yourself 'oh well, he'll have another movie out next year'.But then on hindsight, after seeing the state the man is in, that may not be the case. He's become a caricature of himself. Spray on hair, spray on beard, long coats to hide his girth, and tinted sunglasses to hide his years/embarrassment.It's a generic plot that's passed from straight to DVD action movies like a ticking time bomb. Man on a mission completes mission, bumps into damsel in distress, and finds out he's been set up by person who set up original mission. With a special guest star as the chief bad guy.Seagal is clearly past his prime. Here it seems that the film is sold by his name, because he still has a solid fan base, but he's upstaged by Van Damme defector Byron Mann (Ryu, from the classic Streetfighter) who is very light on his feet.So if like me, you still yearn for that last classic from Seagal, keep waiting, you won't find it here.But it's the best film ever to see Seagal and realise that he's slowly becoming Jabba The Hut.Rubbish.

I don't get how this got to theaters.Last year, Jean-Claude Van Damme had two movies in theaters, Welcome to the Jungle and Enemies Closer, which were pretty decent, mostly because the muscles from Brussels stepped (slightly) out of his element to give us something different than his signature kicks and it worked to make a good movie.I was expecting the same thing from this Seagal movie (after all, when was the last time this guy had something that did not premiere on Netflix?), but as soon as the movie open with a stupid narration about Seagal being a bad man who does bad things and he's looking to redeem himself with one good deed, I knew this was not that movie. If any of you are aware of the old fat Seagal era on DVD, than you have herd Steve do this speech in every straight-to-video flick he's ever made. This movie could not be more formulated to the old fat saga, (takes place in Eastern Europe, he plays blues guitar, etc…). The only exception was that the strippers in the film were not naked. Maybe this is how the movie got into theaters? Don't get me wrong, it's a fine action movie, especially if you at least like Seagal, but I was hoping since this was the first Seagal movie I've seen in years in a movie house, that he would do something different or that it was a return to Seagal back when he was thinner and ran like a girl, but it was neither.