Steven Seagal, the hard-hitting martial artist who swears no mercy to any of his enemies nor does he take a beating, for once actually stars in an action movie that actually turns out to be good for once. With the teaming up with Wrestler 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin, the action and the shootout moments are definitely worth while. It's a groundbreaking worth while and Seagal hasn't been in a better action movie since the Under Siege movies, most of his movies can be ridiculously clichéd and rather annoying due to his successive cheesy one- liners, tough guy impressions and never taking a beating - which makes him a thoroughly non-challenging action star to approve of. In Maximum Conviction, Seagal is Agent across and Steve Austin is Manning. Two ex-special forces operatives who are given a chance to prove their talents once again when a secret military prison facility, run by themselves, gets overrun and compromised by ruthless mercenaries, who are trying to break out two captives for certain demands. For Cross and Manning it's a non-stop quest for justice and taking back the prison's security. Packed with amazing non-stop action moments and thrills, Maximum Conviction is definitely worth the watch if you're an action movie fan!

"No Pain, No Gain!" It's very painful to witness the loss of an icon in the "action movie" genre. Seagal is a bloated shadow of himself. I'm sure he can't finish most fighting scenes without being out of breath. I've never been a big fan of this actor whose movements in fighting are always identical. It always looks as if he's fending off his opponents blows in a casual besotted way. As if it was a terribly irritating swarm of flies. Being assisted by Austin doesn't ensure the level going up. Austin is an enormous weight of dumb muscle.Maximum Conviction is an action movie where you empty your head and focus on an infinite point. It's nothing more then a meaningless and stupid movie anyway. A series of uninspired fight scenes and gunfights, followed by sequences of groups of people who seem to be running through dark corridors and rooms endlessly.The gunfights follow the same scenario all the time. It goes like this : group/person nr.1 looks around the corner and fires a salvo, group/person nr.2 looks around the corner and fires a salvo, group/person nr.1 looks around the corner and fires a salvo ... and this is repeated a few times until someone finally is hit. And please, can anybody tell me what kind of material they used to fabricate some items so they could be indestructible although being hit by so many bullets. And a few minutes before that, those same bullets made sure the pieces of a concrete wall were flying around. Amazing ! Action figures aren't exactly famous for their high quality acting talent and are usually judged on their level of toughness and execution of actions. In MC, however, the performances are so pitifully that I'm ashamed of them. The storyline is really too stupid and too simple to be reckoned with. But this is not the focus of this movie. It would have been better if they just edited the fight scenes sequentially and thus granted me time to look to another better action movie. Because believe me, there are plenty of better movies in this genre.Seagal, it's time to have a look at your retirement plan.More reviews at http://opinion-as-a-moviefreak.blogspot.be/

I would have given this one also a 7 1/2 rating as well. It is good to see Seagal getting back into action in a decent B-action movie. Especially after all the crap he's been making over the last couple of years. But it is hard not to see that the years of good living, eating and drinking have taken their toll on Seagal, he really looks old and out of shape, and no matter what they try to do with long and wide clothes, it is pretty clear the guy is fat. None the less this movie is exactly delivering what you're expecting, action, funny one-liners and huge amount of martial arts scenes, and some decent hand to hand combat scenes from Austin, and even a new upcoming guy is allowed to show off his kicks and punches. Bren Foster actually reminded me of the protégé of Van Damme , named Scott Adkins, and I hope we will get some movies off this guy coming out soon. So if you like this kind of movie, you wanna see some decent action sequences and you don't mind the gaps in the script, then is a must see for you, otherwise, stay away from it.

why Manning don't want to snatch the gun from those intruders? And then after that they said their gears are so limited. Next they kill those intruders, but still, they even didn't snatch any rifles from those dead. Such a non-sense.Those bastard do not really have to cut the fingers for him to help them, didn't he already said that he want to help them already? But he still cut his fingers. Even then, on the camera room, this man hit that guy that already had his finger cut. Why not say it properly? He can explain. I know those man are the protagonist, but he really don't need to do that to get the information. Hangin' the gun upon his head is already enough I think, of even by giving threat with the trigger.Pretty disappointed that Steven Seagal is now much fatter than his past golden times.