The Art of War II: Betrayal
The Art of War II: Betrayal
R | 12 August 2008 (USA)
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Agent Neil Shaw is called out of retirement and finds himself in the midst of a plot to assassinate several leading Senators with himself set-up to take the rap for a recent killing

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Maziun

The first movie was already bad one. This sequel takes everything that was wrong in the first one and makes it even worse. The acting is... wait, what acting ? There is no acting here.Same goes for the dull dialogue , predictable story and lame action scenes. The action scenes are badly choreographed and the camera angles are completely amateurish. You barely can see what's going on ! I'm not even going to laugh at the dreadful CGI... Seriously , the CGI here is so fake that probably you could make it better Don't waste your time and money on this trash. Snipes deserves going to jail just for the fact that he made this movie. It doesn't even deserve to be called a B-class movie. I've seen a few fun B-class movies. This isn't one of them.I give it 1/10.

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bob-rutzel-1

While trying to find out who murdered his martial arts mentor, former spy Neil Shaw (Snipes) is on the run from Homeland Security who believe Shaw is implicated in a Senator's (McDonald) death.When you have the word "art" in the title of a movie, what follows within the movie should have some semblance to it. Not the case here. Just because you use a quote from the book, THE ART OF WAR by Sun Tzu doesn't mean that the goal of "art" is fulfilled. While not artful, the story is okay, but the mechanics of making this movie somehow got in the way. Many fight scenes were too dark and yes lasted too long. The nervous camera made some appearances and when will someone realize it just makes the audience dizzy and has really no dramatic impact at all. I guess we can blame the defunct TV show NYPD Blue for that. They did that so they could show a naked butt from time to time. Yes, yes, all in the name of "art" I am sure. And, get this: Homeland Security raids Shaw's computer friends who are helping him unravel the troublesome situation he is in and Homeland Security enters those offices with guns blazing and all are killed. Nice, eh? Maybe the story isn't all that okay.And, why would you leave Carlson (Hayward) a US Senator unprotected when you know others are close-by and out to kill her? Yes, she is seen leaving in a van from a hotel she was supposed to speak at; but another, with blonde wig, takes her place and the decoy van takes off. The bad guys figure it out and the Senator is left unprotected and is, of course, killed. Did I say the story is okay?Actually, for an Okay-Not Okay movie, the acting by the entire cast was good. It was the other stuff. Wesley Snipes' movies, by and large, are rather good. I would hate to see Mr. Snipes' future movies turn into another sad affair as we witnessed in a recent John Cusack movie, War, Inc. So what we will do is give Mr. Snipes a pass this time as he may have been distracted by his accountants. Doing an OKAY movie is not an option, Mr. Snipes and please do not use the word ART in the title unless you mean it.Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: Some, not much

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originaliko

I don't know why people are giving this movie such a bad time. It's exactly what you expect of this kind of movie. It's an average movie worth watching if you don't pay to much for it and have some time to kill. The acting is average, the plot is OK, almost a test case for this movie genre with very bad people wanting to kill the main character. Their some plot hole and some situation turnaround. Nothing too dramatic, just what you expect. It's look exactly like a Wesley Snipes movie and his fan will (have ?) probably enjoyed seeing him fight once again.I've seen far worst movie than this one.

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WongFury

This was a cool flick to watch, it has nice action, good fights scenes, all that was missing was a car chase, not as good as the first one, but it was still entertaining, it was better the Wesley Snipes last movie the contractor. I really don't agree with the other comments, it really wasn't that bad some people over exaggerate on the time the feel that they wasted watching a movie at the same time if it was so bad why you sit through all of it?, the story was kinda all over the place but it did hold enough of your interest to carry on somewhat, the first Art of War was probably a better story than this, if this movie had a little more better production value this would have been near on screen quality.

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