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To me, this movie is perfection.

Absolutely the worst movie.

Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Sometimes I like to torture myself with a terrible film, but this came close to the limit for me.The premise of the biological warfare data is fairly standard, and who would've expected that the good guy's daughter would be kidnapped. It's all standard bad, but the whole attitude of Segal is terrible.So, someone's kidnapped his daughter, and over the course of the film he has three opportunities to get her back pretty easily, and just wanders away from each one of them without seeming to care much.He's in a high speed car chase trying to get her back. He's knocked out the other cars chasing him, and there is the cab ahead of them. The other agent in the car says 'Let's go to the safe house'. 'OK' he says, and drives off, abandoning the pursuit.Secondly, when he's in the police station, and the woman he knows had kidnapped the kid walks in, he just sits there and lets her walk out. He only overpowers the cops when they tell him they're not going to let him go.Finally, when he finally teams up with the woman (surprise!), they could go collect his daughter from her friend, but instead they go to the safe house again, in the same city, and spend the night there. They could easily have driven to where she was, but nope, safe house.The whole film is about a deadly agent mildly interested in rescuing his daughter.

The Big Man is what he is.You don't like him?Well,hell,nobody is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to watch his movies....... The plot is nearly always - as here - completely irrelevant;we just want to see Steve get revenge against whoever has p*ssed him off this week.You think they'd know better by now. In "Shadow Man" he takes on most of the Romanian nation,several Brits and the odd rogue yank,a helicopter and a central library,leaving them dead,destroyed and in tatters respectively.Way to go Big Steve. Miss Imelda Staunton keeps an admirably straight face and looks to have enjoyed herself immensely sharing screen time with a true legend. Miss Eva Pope,as unlikely a killer as you could hope to meet,is involved in a half - hearted attempted seduction scene but Steve knows the importance of keeping his vital bodily fluids intact before going into action and merely gives her an avuncular hug. I think Steve should have it written into his contract that only he be allowed to sport a ponytail :to see and the chief villain going mano a mano with ponytails swinging was just a touch de trop. But overall,for a cheap,cheesy movie,"The Shadow Man" is a lot of fun and good value for money.Honest.

Ever since I were born I always watched his films and loved them. But now I'm a lot older I feel they have dropped a lot 'Same with Van Damme'.The story felt like it..... Had now story. The acting and filming was bad. If you saw your daughter getting kidnapped, you would run after her, you wouldn't stand there and wait for the explosion to happen. And lets talk about the filming. Every scene felt like it was jerky and making it look like it was obvious that what was about to happen.The stunts and martial arts. You stand there and I will hit you and you can fall like there is something wrong with you. That is all that happened.I just think that Seagal has gone past his sell by date.

Fortune 500 businessman(!)and former CIA operative, Jack Foster(Steven Seagal)arrives in Bucharest, Romania, for a vacation with his daughter(..his wife, her mother was born there and this trip was to mark the fifth anniversary of her death visiting the place of her conception)only to have her kidnapped by a taxi driver, Anya(Eva Pope)after a bomb explosion supposedly killed George(Michael Elwyn; Foster's father-in-law, himself a former CIA agent). What Jack didn't know was that George had stolen a micro chip containing the formula for a virus to be used as a bio weapon, slipping it in a pen of his. George would sell it to the highest bidder, having Jack carry the micro chip as an involuntary courier. So Jack, with both a crooked politia, FSB(..a new branch of the KGB)and a member of the US Embassy, Waters(Garrick Hagon)and his goons desiring to get the micro chip, will be on the run, while also pursuing the location of his daughter, soon, in fact, joining forces with Anya(..who actually momentarily saved Amanda, his daughter, from being captured by Waters as planned)to evade and eliminate those that threaten his daughter's well being. Essentially shot in the Peter Greengrass method(Bourne Supremacy;Bourne Ultimatum) that has become popular in lower budgeted action flicks concerning a hero on the lam, equipped with superior skills, always one step ahead of the enemy, moving through a European location, this time Bucharest(..probably because it's simply cheaper to shoot in this city which favors Russia and Checkoslovakia)...the camera constantly moving, characters shot in and out of frame, with rarely any composed shots lasting longer than seconds giving editor Andy Horvitch plenty of work to do.Interesting to see Imelda Staunton in such a film as this, made for DVD action fare, as Cochran, Ambassador of the US Embassy, who will not tolerate her own people causing mischief, or allowing a dangerous micro chip loose in Bucharest. Jack, who simply wants his daughter back, will use all his fighting skills(..and other techniques, such as a gnarly bomb he sets up to escape being trapped by mercenaries)in order to secure Amanda(Skye Bennett) to safety. Vincent Riotta has a supporting role as Harry, a former partner of Jack's, who sets him up, hoping his guys get the micro chip. Plot-wise, this is one of Seagal's more ambitious films, allowing his Jack to move about in the Bourne tradition. Seagal is pretty much Bourne, just a little less athletic, seeking after a daughter, her safety and security what drives him to obliterate anyone that stands in his way. As we are accustomed to, Seagal uses both his swift martial arts skills(..his hands and the power that derives from their speed)and a hand gun when needed to successfully remove those that interfere with his determined goal. As expected, there is a car chase as Jack, with Harry in tow, is pursuing Anya(..who had just lifted Amanda from the street before Waters' men could nab her)through Bucharest.