Certainly not Seagal's best but definitely not his worst, either. My main complaint with this one is simply that the storyline is so hard to follow; it was difficult to tell who was who, who did what, who was yakuza and who was Tongs, etc etc. There were a lot of characters and the lines got muddied quite a bit through this one. Another much smaller (but still worth noting) complaint was the horrid attempt at romance; Steven Seagal has NEVER come across as a "ladies' man", and no amount of role-playing in the movies is going to improve that. So why bother trying to insert romance into a movie that is about nothing more or less than two Asian clans trying to kill each other? On-screen romance has NEVER worked for Seagal, and it didn't here. Bottom line, this was a decent film with a few (but ONLY a few) fight scenes. Worth watching more than once? Maybe...but only after about another 10 years. Not his worst, but certainly not his best, either.