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A Chinese action film; A story about a Chinese IT engineer who goes to North Africa to help his company win a telecommunications contract. A French spy tries to thwart their bid and control the mineral resources of the country too. This actioner, highly tinged with Chinese propaganda, is about unfair bidding practices in global telecommunications contracts. It is ineptly directed stuffed full of plot. The acting is hammy and unconvincing and the dialogue is hard to follow. All in all, it falls short both in technical and narrative spheres.

Everyone knows that pretty much every movie Steven Seagal has made in the last 15 years has been trash but i do enjoy his old movies like Marked for death and Above the law so i checked this out on a whim.

It's bad.

The story is Chinese propaganda and is very silly, everyone acts terribly especially Mike Tyson and the Chinese actors can barely speak English so why did they make them do it so often?

Mike Tyson and Seagal share one scene together in the whole movie which is a fight scene where you can clearly tell Seagal is using a body double who is much younger and in better shape than he is.

For the rest of the movie Seagal films his scenes sitting down. Sometimes he's green-screened in to a scene for what seems like no reason at all.

The man's name and face are on the movie poster and he can't even be bothered to stand up!

There are a few decent stunts but nothing which makes this worth watching. I give it a 2/10 because it was kind of unintentionally funny.

The fight scene between Tyson & Seagal was so bad, I literally cringed as I watched it. The actual film was terrible, I was willing for it to finish - what can I say the acting was bad, plot bad: Occasionally there is a film so bad you laugh this does not even fall into that category it was terrible.

Made it through about 20 min. worst film I've seen, acting is just horrible. and Segal? please just stop. your acting is horrible, and no one believes you, your a joke, please stop and go away..... this movie is a joke ......? .....right

Please don't waste your time with this rubbish one of the worst films i've ever seen.

Steven seagal keeps getting work and I'm not sure why.

Every actor in this movie was at the same level or worse than Mike Tyson... even Segal

Few credible preformances.

Story is lame and predictable,

An hour of life that I will never get back Only gave it one star cuz I didn't figure out how to give it non

I've been to a few bad movies in my time, but never intentionally ... but I'm at a loss for words on this one ...

When you are advised up front that it has a washed out, has been actor and an ex-con in it, you really need a life if you choose to watch this.

It is bad. And if I could have awarded it less than 1 star, I would have.

My friends and i watched this movie and we thoroughly enjoyed it. It was like watching a corporate marketing video directed to a foxxconn employee. Propaganda about how the west are corrupt war lords, africa always needing help and chinese always being honest hardworking MacGyvers.

The subtitles we're from another movie. The credits were written by the same engrish sign writer.

Chinese movies don't follow a typical 3 act sequence. This had about 8. And subplots are resolved immediately.

My favorite part was when the main guy walks through a war zone but no one hurts him because he's Chinese and Chinese people are friends of the world.

If you don't watch it, you should check into a re-education camp.

This is a fun action movie that throws in a lot of comedy. The storyline is actually pretty clever, with a weird twist that i didnt expect. Surprisingly Tyson and Segal seem to have good chemistry on screen together. Big budget fun movie.

Where do I start? Seagal has been going downhill for over 20 years now and getting worse by the day ...

And to top it, he's teamed up with an ear biting maniac who could not act to save his life ...

Probably one of the worst movies I have ever watched ... and I regret I will never get back the 23 1/2 minutes I spent giving this drivel a chance ...

Somebody poured some significant cash into this rancid vomit of a movie. Some of the battle scenes required some investment that low budget production would not be able to afford, however, even though I am fan of improving Chinese production this flick looks like most idiotic movie propaganda ever. Chinese hero my ass. I could not bear it more than halfway into this and I just could not take it any longer. If you love yourself at least a little bit, please, avoid at all cost.

Horrible movie, terrible acting. I still have no idea what it was about. Never again.

I did enjoy this movie. Not a classic but when you have Steven Seagall & Mike Tyson in a movie just hard to resist. The acting was wooden and the plot nonsense, the editing confusing but not the worst movie I have ever seen...

Steven Seagal on his downward spiral, Mike Tyson who could not act his way out of a paper bag and of course and the propaganda wing of the CCP. It's about as bad as it gets. No wait... it's worse.

Seagal is one of the worst actors in Hollywood and now that is unemployed he is going to China to do even worse movies than the one he usually do. This movie is so bad could be interesting for curious people to see it.

Continuing my plan to watch every Steven Seagal movie in order, I just watched China Salesman (2017)

As usual with this type of dtv fare, the cover and trailer make it look like Steven Seagal and Mike Tyson are the leads, and both men are barely in the film.

This is terrible, and not because of the lack of Seagal and Tyson, no it's because of its woeful (supposed plot) cliche dialogue and is awfully acted!! I didn't even make it to the 40 minute mark.

I notice this movie has a lot of negative reviews around here, but I'm going to assume it's because this isn't a movie that just puts everything on a platter for the audience to easily consume in little bites. There's incredible depth in character development as well as plot. It took me about 5 attempts to get all the way through the movie because how difficult it was to fully comprehend what the director was trying to portray. You don't normally see this level of craft in action movies, but there was incredible balance and I look forward to future movies by this director. I wanted to give it 9/10, but I did take off one star because I feel like the trailer is a bit misleading.

Poor acting, a local childs pantomime would have done better job of acting and entertainment.

Steven Seagal has done some good movies with his Aikido fighting skills, which is entertaining to watch, but now the story lines are getting poor. Stallone did some crap movies in his time, but came back and did a fantastic job at his age. Clint Eastwood still manages to produce good movies at his age, with a good storyline. Seagal should go back to basics and learn from the big stars of Hollywood, otherwise he will lose all the hardwork he put into the movies he did down the dustbin.

Mike Tyson, you will always be remembered as one of the greatest boxers, but you are not an actor.

Despite the fact that Tyson and Seagal are prominent on the poster, neither of them is really in this movie all that much. Tyson does have a fight with Seagal's stunt double so I guess there's that. These Chinese in Africa movies always have a recognizable Western actor or two in them and Tyson and Seagal are it this time.

Most of this movie is taken up by some Chinese people setting up a cell phone network in Fakeistan, Africa. There's a lot of tech talk and setting up equipment. This is every bit as gripping as it sounds. It goes on for nearly 2 hours. You may think I am joking but I'm not. Most of this movie is taken up by some Chinese people haggling over a telecommunications contract and setting up a cell network. There's a civil war or something between North and South...Arica? Setting up the cell networks stops the war because the factions can talk on the phone now I guess. That was easy. Go China #1!

This movie is just painfully boring.

The fight between mike and steven was good, and that's the fiest 4 mins of the movies... after that the movie is wack with dumb acting. This what a uganda hollywood movies would look like if their had a million dollar budget.