End of a Gun (2016)

A mall security guard -- and former federal agent -- crosses paths with a drug kingpin's enforcer after he saves a woman from danger.

Director:

Keoni Waxman

Writers:

Chuck Hustmyre (screenplay), Chuck Hustmyre (story)

Stars:

Steven Seagal, Florin Piersic Jr., Jade Ewen

Cast

Credited cast:
Steven Seagal	...	Decker
Florin Piersic Jr.	...	Gage
Jade Ewen	...	Lisa Durant
Jacob Grodnik	...	Trevor
Jonathan Rosenthal	...	Luc
Ovidiu Niculescu	...	Jean
Claudiu Bleont	...	Chauvin
Troy Miller	...	Plumber
Alexandre Nguyen	...	Pee Wee
Andrei Ciopec	...	Ronnie
George Remes	...	Sergeant (as Remes George)
Lavinia Geambasu	...	Secretary
Radu Andrei Micu	...	Hotel Manager
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Victoria Ene	...	Delphine
Danielle Elise Fischer	...	Waitress

Storyline

A mall security guard -- and former federal agent -- crosses paths with a drug kingpin's enforcer after he saves a woman from danger.

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Plot Keywords:

ex cop | badge | impersonating a police officer | written by director | 2010s | 

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Taglines:

Where justice prevails.

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Genres:

Action | Crime | Thriller

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violence, language and brief sexuality

Did You Know?

Trivia

Steven Seagal is master in Aikido, which he displayed in this movie. Steven Seagal said in an interview that he did all his own stunts, to include the stunts and dodging real life bullets.

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Goofs

Nothing looks like Paris, buildings are eastern European, street signs are not French. Also a map from the south-western Paris bus network in the police office, much more appropriate on a bus stop :)) Wrong police clothes, wrong ambulance colours... Really a low budget movie.

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Quotes

Gage: You've got balls.
Decker: Thank you for noticing that.

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Soundtracks

C'est si bon
(uncredited)
Music by Henri Betti
Lyrics by André Hornez
Hummed by Ovidiu Niculescu

User Reviews

The Enforcer

Steven Seagal has done some good, or at least watchable, films. Particularly 'Under Siege'. He has also done a lot of mediocre and less films, indicative of laziness and that Seagal was well past his sell by date, and a good deal of them are even very bad.

'End of a Gun' is one of the very bad ones, though not 'Contract to Kill' awful, almost anything is better than that. It is not one of Seagal's worst, the scenery has some atmosphere but that's hardly an endorsement. Did not expect much, but watched it because Seagal has shown signs that he can be halfway decent and as said not all his films are bad. Also do appreciate the action genre and there are good films out there in the genre, classics even. 'End of a Gun' is far from that, more closer to a waste of time that shows little signs of trying.

Seagal himself gives another lazy and wooden performance that shows that he was not interested and wanted to be somewhere else. His reading-from-an-autocue-like and robotic line delivery in particular betrays that. The rest of the cast are just as poor though in all fairness have little to work with and over-compensate.

The characters are ones we know very little about and don't care what happens to happen, so unengaging and one-dimensional they are. The dialogue is risible, with a lot of cheesiness, awkwardness and far too much talk delivered with little emotion or momentum and bordering on the near-incomprehensible.

Its excessively talky nature affects severely the pacing, which never comes to life. There is no urgency, let alone tension, intrigue or suspense. The action doesn't feature enough in comparison and suffer from pedestrian choreography and laughably bad editing. The story is by-the-numbers, dull and not always easy to follow.

Direction is flat and ill-at ease, while the sound/soundtrack are one-note and obvious as well as poorly recorded and the whole film looks cheap. And it's not just the editing, the slapdash effects and drab photography also.

Overall, a mess in almost every way. 2/10 Bethany Cox

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

23 September 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

End of a Gun

Filming Locations:

Bucharest, Romania

Box Office

Budget:

$5,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Actionhouse Pictures, Grindstone Entertainment Group, Lionsgate Home Entertainment

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1