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This is a Steven Seagal movie, so if I were to rank it against his past direct to video/dvd works, I feel that would be more fair, then to compare it to anything we have at present, now I have to say that this film is not the worst he has stared in etc, and it deserves some points, I like seeing Segal as a villain in his movies, he has done this in a few other films of his that I recently viewed, it forces him to act in a new light, as opposed to seeing him as the same good guy unstoppable secret cia trained undercover blah blah blah character over and over again lol, so in that regard this movie does present something different, also I feel that Stevens acting in this movie is actually not bad, especially when you compare it to everyone else's acting in the movie... as a movie its vary slow paced at times and vary disconnected from the audience at times and the special effects are clearly low buck, this reminds me I still want to see Steven Segal make a comedy movie, one that is intended to be a comedy, not looks funny or is funny because of outside viewer influence, but is a comedy with a few light action elements, now that would be cool.

The Asian Connection (2016) rarely had anything Asian about it other than the landscape of Southeast Asia, the unfortunate roles of random Asian gangstars, thugs, prostitutes, city dwellers and the great, fat, squint eyed Steven Seagal in another self obsessed roles where he is simply unputdownable. Story was about a girl , Avalon, occasional narrator of the story and played by Pim Bubear who met Jack, played by John Edward Lee in an island and immediately fell for each other. Jack along with his Australian mate Sam, played by Byron Gibson used to rob banks to get the shortcut to their dream life. One day they robbed some big cash from a local bank, where the mafia kingpin Gan Sirankiri, played by Steven Seagal used to stack his money. One of his financial associate, Niran played by Sahajak Boonthanakit saw this as an opportunity, tracked Jack and blackmail him in the name of Avalon to rob at the banks where his kingpin laid his money. The regular robbery of his money leaving Seagal disturbed and distracted from his routine; which were humping a juvenile oriental girl and enlightening her with several philosophical woopty woop in lunch table and playing with her in the name of teaching of marshal art. And it goes with cross blackmails, sudden death of Sam, Jack-Avalon partnering in the last loot to frame a fairy tale exit from the story but in the end The great Gan Sirankiri Steven Seagal killed Jack and let Avalon go. If I am Avalon, I might try to find some way to nail the mafia boss in some way to go for another revenge story. Instead she totally chilled in some tropical island and remarked that even the ruthless kingpin might have some soft corner which might caused him to spare her life. She didn't seem a bit likely to even go and throw a stone at him, which is an unusual human behavior under the circumstances. The Asian Connection is a below par action movie, which is weakly written, weakly captured and weakly acted out. Steven Seagul, who was placed as a highlight area in this movie was hilariously monotonous. Even his character lacks slightest of realism and the entire movie seems like a big scale advertisement of him; alike all the movie he does lately. I think it's time for him to feature himself as Steven Seagul in every movie he signs rather than giving any other fake name. Overall, this movie might do well 30-40 years back in time as a B-Grade action movie but now in 2016 it's nothing but Steven Seagal's daydream.