The weirdest film I've ever seen. Complete idiocy.

This film is total and utter garbage. There is not a single redeeming quality. Steven Seagal used to have a charisma and a personality despite his lack of acting skill in the 80s and 90s. He made some very entertaining movies during that era. The reason I decided to watch this is because I stumbled on an article where someone has seen all 8 movies Steven has released in 2016. The fact that he released 8 movies should tell you all about the quality of them but the reviewer said this one was the best of the bunch and actually watchable. Well, if this one is the best then I dread to think what the others are like. Safe to say that I am not going to watch anymore of his "films". He looks more bored than ever, as if he has narcolepsy and will fall asleep at any moment, his aikido moves are clearly done by a stunt double because he couldn't even be bothered to do the one thing you'd expect him to get right. This is without a doubt, unquestionably the movie that I dislike the most out of over a thousand movies that I have seen. So kudos for that Steve, at least I won't forget this although I wish I could.

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