Shadow Man (2006)

An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.

Director:

Michael Keusch

Writers:

Steven Collins, Steven Seagal

Stars:

Steven Seagal, Eva Pope, Imelda Staunton

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Steven Seagal	...	Jack Foster
Eva Pope	...	Anya
Imelda Staunton	...	Ambassador Cochran
Vincent Riotta	...	Harry
Michael Elwyn	...	George
Skye Bennett	...	Amanda Foster
Garrick Hagon	...	Waters
Alex Ferns	...	Schmitt
Michael Fitzpatrick	...	Chambers
Elias Ferkin	...	Velos
Levani	...	Jensen (as Levani Uchaneishvili)
Zoltan Butuc	...	Seaka
Emanuel Parvu	...	Urick
Vince Leigh	...	Roger (as Vincent Leigh)
Werner Daehn	...	Cyrell

Storyline

An intelligence operative discovers that no one is what they seem in the shadowy world of espionage.

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Plot Keywords:

espionage | female gunfighter | female nudity | blood splatter | street shootout | 

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Taglines:

Either you're with him... or you're dead.

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Genres:

Action | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence, language, some nudity and brief drug use

Details

Country:

USA UK Romania

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 June 2006 (USA)

Also Known As:

Toyman

Filming Locations:

Romania

Company Credits

Production Co:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Castel Film Romania, Clubdeal

Technical Specs

Runtime:

91 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

When the project first came about, the title was Shadows on the Sun, it was being written by Bey Logan and also had an entirely different plot. The original story was a period piece with Seagal as an intelligence officer who runs a medical clinic in Japan after World War II. By September 2005, however, Logan was no longer involved, and the script was being penned by Joe Halpin. It was re-titled Shadows of the Past, and the plot assumed its current form. .

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Goofs

In the car chase at the beginning of the film there is no passenger in the taxi; the little girl is only visible in the close-ups.

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Quotes

Jack Foster: It ain't over til the wolf howls.

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Connections

Featured in Bad Movie Beatdown: Shadow Man (2011)

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Soundtracks

Far Away
Composed by Michael Lloyd and Andrew Stevens

User Reviews

Another badly acted, poorly directed, woefully scripted, confusing,overly complicated Steven Seagal DTV release.

Steven Seagal made some good movies earlier back in his career such as UNDER SIEGE (1992) ABOVE THE LAW (1988) & MARKED FOR DEATH (1990) but that was a very long time ago.

Since his last Theatrical Flop, The Rapper's in Alcatraz nonsense that was HALF PAST DEAD (2002) - Seagal's career as been in the Straight- to-DVD doldrums and has starred in 19 Movies in 8 years to date, but it's a case of quantity rather than quality I'm afraid.

SHADOW MAN has Seagal playing an Intelligence Operative whose Daughter gets kidnapped and spends the rest of the movie trying to get her back, that's pretty much it, but SHADOW MAN has a needlessly confusing and overly complicated screenplay - There's far too many different sets of baddies (Cops,Americans,Romanian Mafia) and too many pointless scenes by half which add nothing to the story, it does become quite a chore to sit through.

The Film is poorly directed by Michael Keusch - who went on to direct another couple of Seagal starred stinkers in FLIGHT OF FURY & ATTACK FORCE.It's very disjointed,The Screenplay is woeful - Seagal co-wrote and co-produced it himself so has to take a lot of the blame here.

There's plenty of action, none of it very interesting and most of it poorly edited.

The Acting is pretty awful, but I've come to expect that in a Seagal Flick - What Oscar Nominated British Actress Imelda Staunton in doing appearing in such mindless trash I really don't know.

Filmed in Romania on the cheap - Not the worst Film I've ever seen,but Seagal DTV releases have become interchangeable, none are better or worse than the one before, but ALL are pretty dire - there hasn't been a really decent one since UNDER SIEGE 2, 15 years and 30 odd Films ago.

I used to be a sucker for his Flicks, buying every release, but this is the last one I paid my hard earned money to buy - Make of that what you will.

I was surprised to notice the Film is only 95 Minutes long, because it felt far far longer.