The action takes place in Tunisia where there is hostile bidding for the nations telecommunications. There is also a civil war going on lead by Mike Tyson. The "China Salesman" was a derogatory term used by the competition. The production was a Chinese propaganda film with our Chinese hero being the tech guy who gets shot at, ran over, and blown off a tower. He is cheered by Africans when he flies the Chinese flag. Steven Seagal has a small role. There is an initial fight with Tyson who refuses to drink whiskey or urine. The fight was laugh out loud funny with the slow motion and speed up scenes to conceal the fact the guys can't fight anymore. Tyson does get an ear slap/flip. The film has very hard to watch. They had trouble with action scene and as in all Chinese films, they don't know how to have a proper romance.Guide: F-word. No sex. partial nudity?

So, I normally don't like to give out spoilers here. I try my best not to, but I need to tell you that the best part of the movie happens in the first fifteen minutes.You see the poster of the film and you see Seagal and Tyson putting up their dukes and your thinking "Wow! who would have thought I wanted to see that so badly?"It was good, surprisingly good. Mike Tyson, who looked like he got into shape for this flick, represented for boxing, which rarely gets a chance to shine in action cinema as a fighting style (You should see a movie called Riot with Sugar Ray Lenard), and sense it's been like 25 years since Steven Seagal has lifted his fat leg up in the air it feels like an even match. Chinese-style action (with american fast cuts), and I must admit, it was was worth that ticket price.But once it's over I could have literally left the theater. The film has a few good action segments. Some including Iron Mike, whose insertion in the movie made it feel like he was just there to put his face on the poster (Which is true, even more so for Seagal whose 15 mins in the film also included the battle with Iron Mike).Seem like an interesting story as well. From the closing text it was a true story about a a Chinese telecommunication company in a biting war with another company that's trying so hard to keep their monopoly that they are willing to start a war between two African nations on the brink of it. I like the fact that China seems to be making a few movies in Africa to reflect the current culture merge, and I liked how the movie explored Chinese patriotism, but for a movie starring Steven Seagal and Mike Tyson (who are on the poster), you got to be prepared for how little action is in the movie and how much it's about a political situation. Good trick getting me to see the movie, but the only reason why I came ended so fast and I was just bored with what could have been a good movie otherwise.

Where do I start? Seagal has been going downhill for over 20 years now and getting worse by the day ...And to top it, he's teamed up with an ear biting maniac who could not act to save his life ...Probably one of the worst movies I have ever watched ... and I regret I will never get back the 23 1/2 minutes I spent giving this drivel a chance ...

Well, the Chinese movie investment did it again, they overlooked a very bad screenplay, casting lot of deadbeat no-talent at all low level actors to play the bad people, watching these non-actors poor performances, I suddenly found Steven Segal and Mike Tyson were actually a pair of pretty good actors in this laughable film. Both of the two leading Chinese actors were also lousy actors with awkward and pretentious performances, the male actor also had a funny Korean style hairdo, that was covered up his forehead with hairs combed down below his eyebrows, this sissy hairstyle is the typical disgusting hairstyle widely used by those sissy looking Korean young actors or singers and blindly copycatted by the Chinese young entertainers. I just felt very uncomfortable to watch a Chinese high tech guy would have a funny Korean hairstyle.Anyway, this is a very shallow movie, blindly invested by those Chinese deep pockets. They thought making the African locality and background setting was a cool and exotic choice that would sell to the Chinese moviegoers easily. But with such a poor screenplay and poor cast, all I could concentrate is the African scenes, the streets, the African people, the desert, the camels, the palm trees and the SUVs....