Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Steven Seagal | ... | John Seeger | |
Jacqueline Lord | ... | Maxine Barnol | |
Roger Guenveur Smith | ... | Anthony Chapel | |
Luke Goss | ... | John Dresham | |
Michael Kenneth Williams | ... | Samuel Kay | |
Adrian Galley | ... | Bulldog | |
Langley Kirkwood | ... | Kruger (as Langley Jack Kirkwood) | |
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Vivian Bieldt | ... | Dekerk |
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Verity Price | ... | Female Assistant |
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Bruce Young | ... | Malik - Chief of Police |
Peter Butler | ... | Ahmet Dasan | |
Farouk Valley-Omar | ... | Elder Butler (as Fahruq Valley-Omar) | |
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Tumi Mogoje | ... | Eddie Jones |
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Faye Peters | ... | Shondra Jones |
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Zaa Nkweta | ... | Radio Jones (as Zaa Nikweta) |
Mercenary John Seeger is one of the best in the business. John and his crew are battling some French soldiers on the French-controlled Galmoral Island in Southern Africa as they're trying to rescue the French Ambassador -- there's a coup going on. John gets angry when some of his soldiers unload their machine guns into the Ambassador and his family, blowing the mission and getting his best friend Radio Jones killed. John goes back to the U.S.A. and goes to the home of Radio's wife Shondra, tells her the news, and then promises her that he'll take care of her and her son Eddie. But shortly after he makes that vow, Shondra and Eddie get kidnapped. They were kidnapped by a CIA faction led by CIA dirty deeds man John Dresham and his boss, CIA Black Ops producer Anthony Chapel, who want to force John into doing a mission for them. Kamal Dasan, the son of prominent gun runner Ahmet Dasan, has been arrested and thrown into the Randveld Prison outside of Cape Town, South Africa, and Chapel ... Written by Todd Baldridge
"Mercenary for Justice" has one heck of an opening. It starts on a war-torn battlefield with Seagal and a group of mercenaries fighting a legion of French soldiers after having kidnapped and killed the French ambassador. Director Don E. FauntLeRoy, who did the so-so "Today You Die" with Seagal, proves his worth with this sequence as the action is fluid and crisp and looks like it cost way more than the reported $15 million it actually did. It's clear with this film's opening: Seagal is hearing the fan's pleas for better films, and he's going to start trying better. Another thankful gesture to his loyal fans in this film is Seagal actually does his own fighting, and while the fight scenes are less impressive, at least it's him doing it. The plot is ridiculous and silly and most of it doesn't make a lick of sense, but since when did it have to in a Seagal movie? What matters is that the film looks good and makes Seagal look good. Having been a Seagal fan for a while, I must say I was pleased by this film.