AWFUL

Rating: 3/10 (14 June 2020)

This movie looks like a bad Steven Seagal movie of 15 years past -- from the set designs, the terrible acting, the stereotypes of Asian and Black men and women. It just SCREAMS out that this is poorly written, poorly directed, from an average script. What a terrible movie. I know MOST of the areas in Asia where the film was shot, been there, seen them, even live near a few of them, but the way its shot is just awful. The real locations without Spike Lee filming them are far more beautiful, -- Lee either doesn't have the talent to know how to shoot the scene, or he made these areas look awful by choice. I'm surprised the locals on this movie allowed themselves to be used -- but it was extremely likely that they had NO idea who this man is and didn't care -- it was a "Netflix" movie so they jumped on it. Some of these scenes look like bad sets populated with bad actors, yet I know these areas where he shot and somehow he made a the real places look like Steven Seagal ran out of money during filming of "Untitled Movie #129". I kept expecting Seagal, Lundgren or Stallone to be in the back of the shot, unaware they'd been accidentally included in a Spike Lee movie. One last thing. The LIGHTING on this movie looks like it was done by a teenager.