Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on June 2011

A ham-fisted editing together of the first few episodes of Steven Seagal’s low-rent TV show, a formulaic cop opera imitating far better programs. You know, the ones with the wise, middle-aged team leader (usually an over-the-hill movie actor) guiding his/her band of young but talented undercover cops. There’s little cohesion (or logic, or intelligence), and it frequently seems like you’ve wandered in to a different movie. Then it abruptly ends. No big final scene. (But it was an ending.) Steven, ever infallible, looks bored, despite writing himself as a chick magnet for way younger women. More I will ignore.