End of a Gun (2016)

Thanks for the memories!

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

This film is total and utter garbage. There is not a single redeeming quality. Steven Seagal used to have a charisma and a personality despite his lack of acting skill in the 80s and 90s. He made some very entertaining movies during that era. The reason I decided to watch this is because I stumbled on an article where someone has seen all 8 movies Steven has released in 2016. The fact that he released 8 movies should tell you all about the quality of them but the reviewer said this one was the best of the bunch and actually watchable. Well, if this one is the best then I dread to think what the others are like. Safe to say that I am not going to watch anymore of his "films". He looks more bored than ever, as if he has narcolepsy and will fall asleep at any moment, his aikido moves are clearly done by a stunt double because he couldn't even be bothered to do the one thing you'd expect him to get right. This is without a doubt, unquestionably the movie that I dislike the most out of over a thousand movies that I have seen. So kudos for that Steve, at least I won't forget this although I wish I could.

END OF A GUN is another cookie cutter DTV thriller for ageing action star Steven Seagal, doubled in his fight scenes and with his orange-tinted glasses and dyed black goatee beard glued to his face as usual. This one teams the star with his go-to director Keoni Waxman for a cheaper-than-ever story that begins with Seagal rescuing a beautiful young woman from the clutches of an abuser and ends with the usual shoot-out in a warehouse. In between you get the typical abruptly-edited fight scenes, unbelievable flirting and romance between Seagal and his 20 year old beautiful love interest, and stock bad guys.

Action hero Steven Seagal seems to make nothing but abominable, low-budget thrillers. Occasionally, he churns out a decent one, but nothing comparable to he did when he was slim and trim during his theatrical release days back in the 1980s and the 1990s. Since those halcyon days, he has made several potboilers with director Keoni Waxman. "End of a Gun" is their latest collaboration, and Seagal doesn't skulk around the edges on this movie. Indeed, he stars as the indestructible protagonist, a former DEA Agent named Michael Decker who got booted out of the agency for doing things his way. As this yarn unfolds, our tall, imposing hero intervenes when he spots a man mistreating his stripper girlfriend in a parking lot one evening. Like most Seagal fights, this one doesn't last long, and the arrogant Ronnie (Andrei Ciopec) makes the mistake of brandishing an automatic pistol. Predictably, Decker decks him with a minimum of shots. The Paris police confiscate Decker's favorite pistol, but his old pal Jean (Ovidiu Niculescu) doesn't arrest him. The beautiful lady, Lisa Durant (television actress Jade Ewen), that Decker rescued has an idea. She suggests Decker team up with her and the appropriate all of Ronnie's loot. The catch is that small fortune is locked up in the trunk of Ronnie's car, and the vehicle is parked in the police impound garage. Instead of taking ten percent, Decker decides to cut himself in for half of the loot. Meanwhile, Decker's chief adversary Gage (Florin Piersic Jr. of "Youth Without Youth") assembles a couple of gunmen, and they track Lisa down to the less than fashionable motel where Decker left her. The bullets fly, and Decker ices Gage's two henchmen without breaking a sweat. Nevertheless, Cage survives and manages to escape with Lisa. Gage's boss Vargas isn't pleased with his henchman's lack of progress in retrieving his money. Lisa convinces Gage to let her live so she can bargain with Decker. They set up a rendezvous to make a swap--the rest of the dough for Lisa--but she isn't fooling Decker. Decker relies on his Parisian friend to back him up. Mind you, Jean doesn't get out of all the gunfire without catching a slug for Decker. Unfortunately, all these shenanigans lack artistry, and Waxman lenses everything like the B-movie that it amounts to just to get it in the can and get on to the next picture. Waxman and co-scenarist Chuck Hustmyre generate nothing in the way of either suspense or momentum because the villains never properly challenge our hero. As the femme fatale, shapely Jade Ewen looks gorgeous, but she doesn't shed a stitch. Of course, she doesn't fool anybody either. Seagal talks a lot about honor in his gravelly voice. "End of a Gun" isn't anything to shout about, but it is better than the typical straight-to-video shoot'em up.

Oh yes, he did it again. Steven Seagal hits us with yet another one of his low budget, bad acting, mediocre movies. I keep watching his movies hoping for more from one movie to another, but i keep getting disappointed. Steven Seagal has the emotional acting of a wooden log while keeps throwing cliché phrases throughout the movie, the rest of the cast is acting fairly plain and the guy playing Vargas might not have even been acting at all.End Of A Gun was shot entirely in Romania, as they say in the credits at the end, although the action is supposed to happen in France, which takes me to the first goof: at the end, when Seagal drives "into the sunset", you can see the license plates of his Porsche back/front are different. The second goof: Seagal is talking with Jean, the french detective about Vargas and the detective says that Vargas is an evil man hiding with the Silanoa cartel (instead of Sinaloa) - i mean common ... Silanoa ?! its not like the cartel is not internationally known.All in all, this was a pretty bad movie and a waste of time as expected. I wouldn't recommend this if you're not a hardcore Steven Seagal fan.