A Good Man (2014)

Please don't spend money on this.

Overrated and overhyped

one of my absolute favorites!

hyped garbage

Oh my, the first appearance of Steven Seagal on screen in this picture was so shocking I didn't want to believe it was him. The man has not aged well, and for an action movie star, that's not good. I had to wonder if he would even perform any martial arts moves in the story, but that question was answered fairly early. What actually amazed me while watching this was the fact that twice now in back to back viewings, I ran across a reference to 'Gwai-Lo' - the white ghost aspect of Seagal's character in the story, going by the name of Alexander. Just yesterday I watched an episode of the X-Files titled 'Hell Money', and the same term was used with a slight difference in spelling, although the term 'gui' in that show also referred to a ghost spirit. These types of serendipitous occasions seem to occur frequently enough to qualify as my own version of an X-File, but that's neither here nor there.So now, instead of taking on street thugs, drug pushers or crooked cops, a Seagal film enters the arena of jihadi terrorists and the Russian mob. It's actually not too bad a story after a somewhat clumsy start, with Alexander getting involved with Romanian siblings trapped in a nightmare of repaying their deceased father's debt to a Russian kingpin, who in turn is a lackey for a Chinese crime lord.There are the expected martial arts sequences one tunes in for in a Seagal flick, although quick cutaways during the fight scenes suggest Seagal himself isn't necessarily performing all of them. Victor Webster as Sasha handled himself pretty well in his action scenes, and the gore factor is probably enough to suit most fans of this type of stuff. It's only a very short limb though that I would crawl out on to actually recommend this one. With Seagal way past his prime, one might better relive his past glory as an action star in one of his earlier films.

First, the credits went on so long I almost fell asleep.This movie was so cliché it was laughable, but it was not funny, just sad.They kept using the trick of shooting some bad guy, and they did it a lot, and the guy would fall against the wall where they was already a big splatter of blood, red paint, behind him. In other words cheap effects.Seagal himself, it was hard to figure out exactly what he was or where he was coming from as a character. He spoke in a ghetto dialect so it was kind of hard to figure out if he was supposed to be a brother or what.The military operations they portray were also laughable as you have your spotters and agents on the ground telling control what to do, but control decides to launch a missile anyway, with their men in the target area.Then, in almost everything else this movie is so over to the top violence. In one scene the bad buy gang runs down a mark who they are running a protection racket on, who says he paid, and they literally punch, kick, throw, slam him until if this was a real scene he would be dead, i.e. unable to pay or ever pay.This movie is just unbearable, in fact I think it is kind of psychologically toxic and I would stay away from anyone who says they like this movie. Maybe report them to the FBI because they probably have very violent tendencies and something wring with them psychologically. This movie really has no redeeming qualities, and not even good effects.Seagal's goatee even seems cheap and fake. Very sad.

A Good Man is definitely one of Seagals better efforts of recent times.There is no noticeable dubbing and the action scenes are authentic.Black Dawn having the worst Seagal stunt double of all time. The story is easy to follow with Victor Webster showing some neat moves and taking up a large part of the fight scenes. Mr Chang is the villain of the film and when Seagal and Webster go after him the film clicks into top gear. If don't eat steak don't order it and if you don't like Seagal don't watch it-you know what you are going to get.He is a modern John Wayne who takes out the bad guys-looking forward to his next movie now.I award this movie eight out of ten-non Seagal fans maybe will score it 5.Either way it is a good effort.

I watched it. Me personally I thought The director did fairly good on this one a lot better than force of execution. I felt as it the story actually made a lot of sense & me personally it kept me interested even when other actors were on the screen they were still fairly interesting. I thought the action was actually really good seagal had a couple of moments where he had a bad add fight scene & as well as adding a little humor to the movie seagal made me laugh a few times with some of the smart a$$ remarks he has in the film which i thought was really a step up. Victor web wasn't bad at all. & Seagal kinda seemed like he liked doing this movie he didn't seem that lazy or carefree when he talked he had a lot of moments where you could tell he was into it & also moving extremely fast when in shootouts or fighting. I honestly loved this movie because there was also no dubbing its all seagal %100 of the way!! One thing that gets me excited is waxman said absolution is darker & better than this one well if his words are right then its going to be one heck of a movie because this one wasn't half bad at all definitely going to watch it a few more times